The volume attempts to triangulate three vibrant discourses of our times: It combines postcolonial and decolonial readings of cultural conflicts with assessments of ecological dimensions of those conflicts, as well as their significance within discourses on natural and cultural world heritage. The examples from four continents range from the medieval Middle East – already shaken by a convergence of ecological and social disaster – to modern imaginary constructions of medieval Vikings, the persistence of Indigenous knowledge in the Arctic, literary poetics of patrimony, and the heritage politics of Mediterranean urban architecture.

Das Leben ist eine Reise, die mit der Geburt beginnt ... Jedes Buch ist eine Reise. Jedes gute Buch öffnet uns eine neue geistige Welt. Besonders dieses Buch. Es ist eine Reise zu uns selbst.