{"title":"Divide and Brand: Public Space, Politics, and Tourism","authors":"P. De Giosa","doi":"10.5117/9789463725026_ch05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463725026_ch05","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 5 turns to the transformation of historic spaces into ‘cultural\u0000 shopping streets’, divided along the official macro-categories of Malays,\u0000 Chinese, and Indians. After introducing the making of Little India and\u0000 the Malay Bazar Ramadan, the chapter focuses on the Chinatown-like\u0000 Jonker Walk as the first and most successful of these projects. This case\u0000 study shows how these tourism packages resist a wide range of critics:\u0000 from UNESCO-related actors and local heritage bureaus that condemn the\u0000 commercialization of these historic streets, to the residents and heritage\u0000 aficionados that identify them as symbols of multicultural coexistence.\u0000 This chapter reveals competing views of Melaka’s multi-ethnic townscape:\u0000 from the cosmopolitan character of the World Heritage inscription to a\u0000 racialized and politicized demarcation of space.","PeriodicalId":394181,"journal":{"name":"World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka, Malaysia","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124822557","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Melakan Row Houses from the Ground Up","authors":"P. De Giosa","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv1rr6djs.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1rr6djs.9","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 4 deals with the old townhouses and shophouses of Melaka’s World\u0000 Heritage site. It first traces the reasons for their decline in the post-war\u0000 period. Things started to change in the 1990s with the repeal of rent\u0000 control. This period coincided with the revaluation of these buildings as\u0000 heritage and economic assets, but not without side effects, such as illegal\u0000 demolitions, the displacement of residents, and tourism gentrification. The\u0000 authorities have always been reluctant to interfere with private property,\u0000 but during the application for the World Heritage inscription they were\u0000 forced to step in with stricter conservation rules. Instead of a homogeneous\u0000 approach, this chapter displays the diversity of discourses and practices\u0000 of conservation as encountered on the ground.","PeriodicalId":394181,"journal":{"name":"World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka, Malaysia","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122761637","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Melakan Ancestral Village beyond\u0000 World Heritage","authors":"P. De Giosa","doi":"10.5117/9789463725026_ch06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5117/9789463725026_ch06","url":null,"abstract":"Chapter 6 moves to the fringes of the World Heritage site, where the\u0000 designation led to a boom in high-rise projects. This chapter analyses\u0000 the friction between historic conservation and urban transformation by\u0000 focusing on Kampung Chetti, a ‘heritage village’ recognized by the local\u0000 conservation law. After introducing the Chetti community, the chapter\u0000 deals with the heritagization of Kampung Chetti. Local conservation\u0000 laws, however, turn out not to provide adequate protection from the\u0000 pressures of real estate development projects. The chapter explores how\u0000 the Chetti struggled in vain against a high-rise project adjacent to their\u0000 village. Although recognized by the Melaka State Government as heritage,\u0000 Kampung Chetti found itself at the bottom of a patrimonial hierarchy,\u0000 excluded from UNESCO-derived and national heritage regulations.","PeriodicalId":394181,"journal":{"name":"World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka, Malaysia","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133092640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}