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The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research / edited by E. Waterton, S. Watson.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization--History.
- Civilization.
- World history.
- Ethnology--Latin America.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Social history.
- History, Modern.
- Cultural History.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Latin American Culture.
- Cultural Studies.
- Social History.
- Modern History.
- Local Subjects:
- Cultural History.
- World History, Global and Transnational History.
- Latin American Culture.
- Cultural Studies.
- Social History.
- Modern History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (587 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Heritage as a Focus of Research: Past, Present and New Directions; Heritage in the past; Heritage now and in the future; Conclusion; Part I: Heritage Meanings; 1 The Ontological Politics of Heritage; or How Research Can Spoil a Good Story; Dark figures of heritage; Heritage researched; Future directions; 2 Heritage and Discourse; The notion of discourse; Heritage as discourse and discursive practice; Discourse analysis and the critique of heritage; Future trends in discursive studies of heritage
- Concluding remarks3 Heritage as Performance; 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; 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 policyConclusion; Part II: Heritage in Context; 5 From Heritage to Archaeology and Back Again; Inventing archaeology; Reinventing archaeology in the new world; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 6 Heritage and History; Introduction; Public History; Heritage debates in Britain; History at war; What can history do for heritage?; Conclusion; 7 Thinking about Others through Museums and Heritage; 8 Heritage and Tourism; A brief history of heritage tourism; Touring heritage: Making identities; Understanding heritage tourists
- Conclusions: A future research agenda9 Heritage and Geography; 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; 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; Selected foundations; Memory in heritage studies: Selected theoretical issues and current key themes
- Case studies: Memory, landscapes, embodiment, difficult heritageInto the future: Continuing and emerging directions; Acknowledgements; 12 Heritage and the Visual Arts; The visual arts legacy; The visual arts within contemporary heritage; Conclusion; 13 Industrial Heritage and Tourism: A Review of the Literature; State of the art; Analysis of the literature survey; Future directions; 14 Curating Sound for Future Communities; Field recordings, sonic heritage and sound curation; Pro-active sound archiving; Sound elicitation and case studies; Future directions for collaborative sound curation
- 15 Heritage and Sport
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781786846952
- 1786846950
- 9781137293565
- 113729356X
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