This book presents new ways of understanding heritage and heritage work. It develops and addresses the ways in which physical processes of creation, maintenance and decay are entangled with cultural and political processes.

Tod Jones is an Associate Professor in Geography in the School of Design and Built Environment, Curtin University. He has worked on cultural policy and heritage issues in Indonesia and Australia since 1999. His current research brings cultural and political geography concepts and tools in dialogue with heritage concepts and frameworks to issues of heritage management. He has worked with Aboriginal communities across Western Australia on community cultural development initiatives, and with heritage groups in Java and Sumatra in Indonesia. He has published two books: Culture, power and authoritarianism in the Indonesian state (2013) and a co-authored collection with Ali Mozaffari, Heritage movements in Asia (2020). He has published articles in the leading heritage studies journals, International Journal of Heritage Studies, Heritage and Society, and International Journal of Cultural Policy. Altogether he has been leading author or a contributor on 29 peer-reviewed journal articles and 11 book chapters. His research on Indonesian cultural policy was debated in the Indonesian parliament and influenced the new national cultural policy legislation.