Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Abbreviations
Introduction
- ‘Past Presencing’ on the European Periphery
- European Products
- Cyprus: Postcoloniality, Division, and EU Accession
- Fieldwork in Cyprus: Ethnographic Modalities
- About this book
PART I: HERITAGE REGIMES
Chapter 1. Preserving Vernacular Architecture
- Heritage and Nationalism in Cyprus
- Villages Frozen in Time Preservation Standards and Aesthetic Control
- Conclusion: ‘Streamlined Along the European Prototype’
Chapter 2. Packaging Hospitality
- A Sustainable Alternative to Mass Tourism
- The Philoxenia Standard
- ‘Branding the Culture of the Villages’
- Conclusion: The Creation of Tourist Spaces
- Digression: Difficult Heritage
Chapter 3. Inventing the Rural
- A Lesson in Development
- European Union Policies
- Upgrading the Rural Heritage
- Conclusion: The Rural as a European Product
PART II: FOOD, CULTURE AND HERITAGISATION
Chapter 4. ‘Full Meze’: Tourism, Modernity, Crisis
- The Cultural Logic of Mass Tourism
- What Makes Meze Cypriot?
- Performing Asymmetry
- Modernity and the Mutations of Cypriot Meze
- Conclusion: Wasting or Sharing?
Chapter 5. ‘Origin Food’: The Struggle over Halloumi/Hellim
- Contested Claims
- Pure Products, Messy Histories
- The Europeanization of Cheese Making
- Managed Diversity
- The Ingredients of Tradition
- Conclusion: Heritage Effects and Property Regimes
PART III: AMBIENT HERITAGE
Chapter 6. The Nature of Heritage Making: Environmental Governance
- Forces: Land Ownership, the Postcolonial State and the Privatization of the Coast
- Connections: Contested Natures and the Transnational Arena
- Imaginations: Local Communities and Moral Economies
- Conclusion: The Making of Biodiversity
Chapter 7. The Divided City: Europe and the Politics of Culture
- Dissected Urban Space
- The Nicosia Master Plan: Regeneration and Reconciliation
- Crossing the Divide: Transnational Cultural Diplomacy and the Old Town
- Remaking Lefkosia: Artists, Immigrants, and World-Class Architecture
- ‘Get In the Zone’: Competing for the European Title
- Conclusion: Ambience for sale. Nature and Culture as Economic Assets
Conclusion
- Heritagisation as a Vector of Europeanization
- Standardization: Sameness or Difference?
- Unmaking Heritage
- Neoliberal Europeanization
- One year later: What comes after ‘the crusade of greed’?
- A Postcolonial Reading of the Crisis
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