The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research
Editors: Waterton, E. and Watson, S.
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Ltd
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ISBN: 978-1-137-29355-8
Category: Social Sciences - Research Methods & Study Skills
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Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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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