There is a call in Heritage Studies to democratize heritage practices and place local communities at the forefront; heritage plays an important role in identity formation, and therefore in social inclusion and exclusion. Public participation is often presented as the primary means to prioritize communities. However, studies focusing on public participation are typically descriptive in nature and lack a strong analytical framework that enables us to understand participation. The essays in this volume apply Public Administration theory to collaborative governance and thus contribute to a better understanding of public participation in the heritage sector.

Gert-Jan Burgers has a chair in Heritage of Cultural Landscapes and Urban Environments at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is also director of CLUE+, the Vrije Universiteit interfaculty research institute for Culture, Cognition, History and Heritage.

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Introduction
Jeroen Rodenberg, Pieter Wagenaar and Gert-Jan Burgers

Part I: Framework: Theories of Heritage, Public Administration and Political Science 

Chapter 1.Understanding the Governance of Heritage: A plea for Using Public Administration Theories in Heritage Studies
Jeroen Rodenberg and Pieter Wagenaar

Chapter 2.Interacting with Governance: A Public Administration Perspective on Interactive Governance for the Heritage Studies
Pieter Wagenaar and Jeroen Rodenberg

Chapter 3.From Democratic Turn to Agnostic Approach: Understanding Participation from the Perspective of Mouffe's Agonistic Pluralism
Jarik Chambille

Part II: Top-Down Closed Interactive Heritage Governance: Stakeholder Participation

Chapter 4.Building a Community of Practice in a Heritage Landscape
Rob Collins, Graham Fairclough and Sam Turner

Chapter 5.Crafting Castella: Why Interactive Governance Led to Success in Reconstructing a Castellum in Utrecht, but not in Leiden
Eline Amsing, Pieter Wagenaar, Jeroen Rodenberg and Hans Renes

Chapter 6.Participatory Heritage Planning Policy in Coastal Europe: Lessons from the HERICOAST Project
Linde Egberts

Part III: Top-Down Open Interactive Heritage Governance: Citizen Participation

Chapter 7.Heritage and Co-Production? Evaluating the Legacy of Participating in Community Archaeology in the UK
Cath Neal

Chapter 8. Barriers to Public Participation in Memorialization Processes: Evidence from Holocaust Memorial of Names
Alana Castro de Azevedo

Chapter 9. Delisting Dresden: Bridging Local Interests and International Obligations
Bart Zwegers

Part IV: Bottom-Up Open Interactive Heritage Governance: Governing the Public Good and Common Pool Resources

Chapter 10.White Lions in South Africa: A Living Heritage
Jason Turner and Harry Wels

Part V: Bottom-Up Closed Interactive Heritage Governance: Governing Common Pool Resources

Chapter 11. Rethinking Ecomuseology: TheEcomuseo della Via Appiain the south of Italy
Gert-Jan Burgers,Christian Napolitano and Ilaria Ricci

Chapter 12. Participation as an Effective Way to Counter Authorized Heritage Discourse?
Nana Zheng and Gert-Jan Burgers

Conclusion
Pieter Wagenaar and Jeroen Rodenberg

Index