This book explores heritage from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines and in doing so provides a distinctive and deeply relevant survey of the field as it is currently researched, understood and practiced around the world.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures and Tables
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Contributors
• Heritage as a Focus of Research: Past, Present and New Directions - Emma Waterton and Steve Watson
• Heritage in the past
• Heritage now and in the future
• The volume's structure
• Conclusion
• Part I Heritage Meanings
• 1 The Ontological Politics of Heritage; or How Research Can Spoil a Good Story - Emma Waterton and Steve Watson
• Dark figures of heritage
• Heritage researched
• Future directions
• 2 Heritage and Discourse - Zongjie Wu and Song Hou
• The notion of discourse
• Heritage as discourse and discursive practice
• Discourse analysis and the critique of heritage
• Cultural discourses of ‘heritage’: Some alternative endeavours
• Future trends in discursive studies of heritage
• Concluding remarks
• 3 Heritage as Performance - Michael Haldrup and Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt
• Introduction: The uses of heritage
• The ‘performance turn’
• Performances of heritage
• Performances at heritage sites
• Performances with heritage
• Conclusion: A moderate stand on performance
• 4 Heritage and Authenticity - Helaine Silverman
• Heritage and authenticity in the nineteenth century
• Authenticity in architecture becomes an international heritage doctrine
• UNESCO, authenticity and intangible cultural heritage
• Authenticity, heritage and tourism
• Current research on heritage and authenticity
• Implications of authenticity for local, national and international heritage policy
• Conclusion
• Part II Heritage in Context
• 5 From Heritage to Archaeology and Back Again - Shatha Abu Khafajah and Arwa Badran
• Inventing archaeology
• Fitting people into prehistory using the culture-history approach
• Reinventing archaeology in the new world
• New archaeology: Scientific, abstract, general and universal
• The socio-political context: Humanizing archaeology and recognizing the ordinary
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• 6 Heritage and History - Jessica Moody
• Introduction
• Defining heritage, studying heritage
• Defining history, studying history
• Public History
• The development of Public History
• Heritage debates in Britain
• History at war
• The Enola Gay
• 2007 and the bicentenary of the Abolition of the British Slave Trade Act
• What can history do for heritage?
• Conclusion
• 7 Thinking about Others through Museums and Heritage - Andrea Witcomb
• 8 Heritage and Tourism - Duncan Light
• A brief history of heritage tourism
• Touring heritage: Making identities
• Understanding heritage tourists
• Conclusions: A future research agenda
• 9 Heritage and Geography - Nuala C. Johnson
• Geography and the heritage debate
• Theorizing memory spaces
• Space, memory and heritage
• Nature, heritage and identity
• Conclusion
• Part III Heritage and Cultural Experience
• 10 Affect, Heritage, Feeling - David Crouch
• Introduction
• Heritage journeys
• Phenomenology and performativity
• Affect, emotion, feeling
• Affect, feeling, knowing: Heritage and spacetimes of heritage
• Conclusions and ongoing reflections
• 11 Heritage and Memory - Joy Sather-Wagstaff
• Selected foundations
• Memory in heritage studies: Selected theoretical issues and current key themes
• Issues – history versus memory, container models for memory
• Themes – difficult heritage: History, place, body and memory
• Case studies: Memory, landscapes, embodiment, difficult heritage
• Precipitants of re-memory through domestic material and visual culture
• Heritage wiped clean?
• Embodied memory versus monumentalism at Angkor, Cambodia
• Into the future: Continuing and emerging directions
• Acknowledgements
• 12 Heritage and the Visual Arts - Russell Staiff
• The visual arts legacy
• Formalism
• Iconography
• Aesthetics
• Modernism
• The visual arts within contemporary heritage
• Quotations and copies
• The co-option of the visual arts as national heritage
• Conclusion
• 13 Industrial Heritage and Tourism: A Review of the Literature - Alfonso Vargas-Sánchez
• State of the art
• Analysis of the literature survey
• Future directions
• 14 Curating Sound for Future Communities - Noel Lobley
• Field recordings, sonic heritage and sound curation
• The International Library of African Music
• The archive of BaAka music recorded by Louis Sarno
• Pro-active sound archiving
• Sound elicitation and case studies
• The Sound of Africa series, the International Library of African Music and urban Xhosa communities
• Developing sound collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum
• Future directions for collaborative sound curation
• 15 Heritage and Sport - Gregory Ramshaw and Sean Gammon
• Connecting sport and tourism
• Sport museums and halls of fame
• Sports stadia and sporting venues
• Heritage-based sporting events
• Sport fantasy camps
• Personal sport heritage journeys
• Future directions in sport heritage
• Conclusion
• Part IV Contested Heritage and Emerging Issues
• 16 Heritage in Multicultural Times - Cristóbal Gnecco
• (Un)defining what cannot be defined
• Humanism, the market and governmentality: The multicultural faces of heritage
• The fall of the house of heritage (as we ‘know’ it)
• Coda: Brief gloss on a long UNESCO text
• 17 Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflict: New Questions for an Old Relationship - Dacia Viejo-Rose and Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
• An old relationship with new questions and dynamics
• A two-way street: From protection to reconstruction and recovery
• The arming and disarming of cultural heritage
• Looking to a future imperfect: Intention and impact
• Acknowledgements
• 18 Heritage and Globalization - Rodney Harrison
• Heritage and globalization
• ‘World’ heritage
• The 1972 World Heritage Convention
• Critical studies of heritage and globalization
• Material-semiotic approaches to heritage: Actor-network theory, assemblage theory and governmentality theory
• Heritage as design process, material intervention and global transformation
• Future research directions
• 19 Critical Approaches to Post-Colonial (Post-Conflict) Heritage - John Giblin
• Setting the parameters
• Summary
• Theoretical underpinnings
• The post-colonial critique
• The heritage critique
• Discussion
• Event
• Site
• Nation
• Reappropriation, recycling and renewal
• Conclusion
• Part V Heritage, Identity and Affiliation
• 20 Heritage and Nationalism: An Unbreachable Couple? - Tim Winter
• Antiquity and the nation
• Imperialism, nationalism and classical glory
• Enduring narratives
• Acknowledgements
• 21 Heritage and Participation - Cath Neal
• Historic review of heritage practice
• Background
• The broader context
• Why engage?
• Participation
• Localism and governmentality
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• 22 Heritage and Social Class - Bella Dicks
• Introduction: From the Rhondda to Alnwick Castle
• What is ‘heritage’ and what is ‘class’?
• ‘National heritage’, ‘the people’ and nostalgia
• Class, collective memory, place and industrial ruination
• Objects, bodies, affect and performance
• Visitor studies of class and heritage
• Issues for the future
• 23 Of Routes and Roots: Paths for Understanding Diasporic Heritage - Ann Reed
• Defining diaspora
• Diasporic travel to heritage centres
• Pilgrimage tourism as ritual
• Global flows and transnational heritage
• Conclusion
• 24 Making Feminist Heritage Work: Gender and Heritage - Anna Reading
• A critical history of gendered heritage studies
• Gender, heritage and representation
• Gender, heritage and consumption
• Gender, heritage curation and management
• Gender, heritage, policies and protocols
• New challenges for feminist heritage studies
• Concluding remarks
• Acknowledgements
• Part VI Heritage and Social Practice
• 25 ‘Thinkers and Feelers’: A Psychological Perspective on Heritage and Society - John Schofield
• The right to heritage
• Thinkers and feelers
• Extraversion and introversion
• Sensation and intuition
• Feeling and thinking
• Judging and perceiving
• The language of heritage
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgements
• 26 Heritage and Policy - John Pendlebury
• Introduction
• Policy and policy analysis
• Heritage policy
• Heritage and economic policy
• Heritage as social policy
• Heritage and localism policy
• Conclusion
• 27 Heritage, Power and Ideology - Katharina Schramm
• Conceptual and methodological approaches
• Critical heritage discourse
• Ideology, power and relationality: Shifting perspectives
• Conclusion
• 28 Heritage Economies: The Past Meets the Future in the Mall Steve Watson and M. Rosario González-Rodríguez
• The value of the past
• Discourse and practice
• Heritage in Seville
• A new cultural heritage: The Metropol Parasol
• Conclusion
• 29 Heritage in Consumer Marketing - Georgios C. Papageorgiou
• Introduction
• Consumer marketing context
• The power of the past
• Nostalgia and retro-marketing: Yesterday was better
• Reliving the past: Classic, vintage, old's cool
• Longevity and tradition: Time as the secret ingredient
• Operationalizing brand heritage for marketing purposes
• Conclusion
• 30 Heritage and Sustainable Development: Transdisciplinary Imaginings of a Wicked Concept - Robyn Bushell
• Sustainable development: Tipping, turning or connecting?
• Safeguarding the past/future
• Part VII Conclusions
• 31 Contemporary Heritage and the Future - Cornelius Holtorf and Anders Högberg
• Cultural heritage, the future and thought styles
• The future of heritage – do we care?
• Heritage for the future?
• From historical consciousness to future consciousness
• Conclusions
• Acknowledgements
• 32 Themes, Thoughts, Reflections - Steve Watson and Emma Waterton
• Eclecticism unbound
• A critical urgency
• A contemplation (and a little frustration)
• A conclusion