Emotion, affective practices, and the past in the present / edited by Laurajane Smith, Margaret Wetherell and Gary Campbell.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smith, Laurajane, editor.

Wetherell, Margaret, 1954- editor.

Campbell, Gary (Independent researcher), editor.

Series:

Key issues in cultural heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural property--Protection.

Cultural property.

Historic preservation.

Affect (Psychology).

Museums--Social aspects.

Museums.

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

xix, 311 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

This book is a response to debates in the humanities and social sciences about the use of emotion. It explores the ways emotion is embroiled and used in contemporary engagements with the past, particularly in contexts such as heritage sites, museums, commemorations, political rhetoric and ideology, debates over issues of social memory, and touristic uses of heritage sites. Including contributions from academics and practitioners in a range of countries, the book reviews significant and conflicting academic debates on the nature and expression of affect and emotion. As a whole, the book makes an argument for a pragmatic understanding of affect and, in doing so, outlines Wetherell's concept of affective practice, a concept utilised in most of the chapters in this book. Since debates about affect and emotion can often be confusing and abstract, the book aims to clarify these debates and, through the use of case studies, draw out their implications for theory and practice within heritage and museum studies.-- From publisher description.

Contents:

Introduction: Affective heritage practices / Margaret Wetherell, Laurajane Smith and Gary Campbell

Part I : Commemoration and remembering. Labour of love and devotion? The search for the lost soldiers of Russia / Johanna Dahlin ; Troubling heritage : intimate pasts and public memories at Derry/Londonderry's 'Temple' / Margo Shea ; Commemoration, affective practice and the difficult histories of war / Amy McKernan and Julie McLeod ; Constructing heritage through subjectivity : Museum of Broken Relationships / �Zeljka Miklo�sevi�c and Darko Babi�c ; The Battle of Orgreave (1984) / Toby Juliff

Part II : Belonging and exclusion. Apologising for past wrongs : emotion-reason rhetoric in political discourse / Martha Agoustinos, Brianne Hastie and Peta Callaghan ; Experiencing mixed emotions in the museum : empathy, affect, and memory in visitors' responses to histories of migration / Rhiannon Mason, Areti Galani, Kattherine Lloyd and Joanne Sayner ; Coming undone : protocols of emotion in Canadian human rights museology / Jennifer Claire Robinson ; Touring the post-conflict city : negotiating affects during Belfast's black cab mural tours / Katie Markham ; Performing affection, constructing heritage? Civil and political mobilisations around the Ottoman legacy in Bulgaria / Ivo Strahilov and Slavka Karakusheva

Part III: Learning, teaching and engaging. Understanding the emotional regimes of reconciliation in engagements with 'difficult' heritage / Michalinos Zembylas ; Affective practices of learning at the museum : children's critical encounters with the past / Dianne Mulcahy and Andrea Witcomb ; White guilt and shame : students' emotional reactions to digital stories of race in a South African classroom / Daniela Gachago, Vivienne Bozalek and Dick Ng'ambi ; Settler-Indigenous relationships and the emotional regime of empathy in Australian history school textbooks in times of reconciliation / Ang�elique Stastny ; 'Head and heart' responses to Treaty education in Aotearoa New Zealand : feeling the timeline of colonisation / Ingrid Huygens ; Raw emotion : the Living Memory module at three sites of practice / Celmara Pocock, Marion Stell and Geraldine Mate.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1138579297

9781138579293

9780815370024

0815370024

OCLC:

1018078598