The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research
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The Palgrave Handbook ofContemporary HeritageResearchEdited by
Emma WatertonAssociate Professor, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Steve WatsonProfessor, York St John University, UK
Editorial matter, introduction and selection Emma Waterton andSteve Watson 2015Individual chapters Respective authors 2015
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Contents
List of Figures and Tables xiii
Acknowledgements xv
Notes on Contributors xvi
Heritage as a Focus of Research: Past, Present and New Directions 1Emma Waterton and Steve Watson
Heritage in the past 3Heritage now and in the future 9
The volumes structure 11Conclusion 14
Part I Heritage Meanings
1 The Ontological Politics of Heritage; or How Research CanSpoil a Good Story 21Emma Waterton and Steve Watson
Dark figures of heritage 23Heritage researched 25Future directions 29
2 Heritage and Discourse 37Zongjie Wu and Song Hou
The notion of discourse 37Heritage as discourse and discursive practice 39Discourse analysis and the critique of heritage 41
Cultural discourses of heritage: Some alternative endeavours 43Future trends in discursive studies of heritage 45Concluding remarks 48
3 Heritage as Performance 52Michael Haldrup and Jrgen Ole Brenholdt
Introduction: The uses of heritage 52The performance turn 53Performances of heritage 55
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Performances at heritage sites 58Performances with heritage 61Conclusion: A moderate stand on performance 64
4 Heritage and Authenticity 69Helaine Silverman
Heritage and authenticity in the nineteenth century 70Authenticity in architecture becomes an international
heritage doctrine 72UNESCO, authenticity and intangible cultural heritage 75Authenticity, heritage and tourism 76Current research on heritage and authenticity 80Implications of authenticity for local, national and international
heritage policy 82Conclusion 84
Part II Heritage in Context
5 From Heritage to Archaeology and Back Again 91Shatha Abu Khafajah and Arwa Badran
Inventing archaeology 92Fitting people into prehistory using the culture-history
approach 93Reinventing archaeology in the new world 97
New archaeology: Scientific, abstract, general and universal 98The socio-political context: Humanizing archaeology and
recognizing the ordinary 102Conclusion 107Acknowledgements 109
6 Heritage and History 113Jessica Moody
Introduction 113Defining heritage, studying heritage 113Defining history, studying history 114
Public History 115The development of Public History 115
Heritage debates in Britain 117History at war 119
The Enola Gay 1202007 and the bicentenary of the Abolition of the British Slave
Trade Act 121
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What can history do for heritage? 123Conclusion 125
7 Thinking about Others through Museums and Heritage 130Andrea Witcomb
8 Heritage and Tourism 144Duncan Light
A brief history of heritage tourism 145Touring heritage: Making identities 148Understanding heritage tourists 150Conclusions: A future research agenda 153
9 Heritage and Geography 159Nuala C. Johnson
Geography and the heritage debate 162Theorizing memory spaces 164Space, memory and heritage 166Nature, heritage and identity 167Conclusion 170
Part III Heritage and Cultural Experience
10 Affect, Heritage, Feeling 177David Crouch
Introduction 177Heritage journeys 178Phenomenology and performativity 179Affect, emotion, feeling 181Affect, feeling, knowing: Heritage and spacetimes of heritage 185Conclusions and ongoing reflections 187
11 Heritage and Memory 191Joy Sather-Wagstaff
Selected foundations 192Memory in heritage studies: Selected theoretical issues and
current key themes 194Issues history versus memory, container models for memory 194Themes difficult heritage: History, place, body and memory 195
Case studies: Memory, landscapes, embodiment, difficult heritage 197Precipitants of re-memory through domestic material
and visual culture 198Heritage wiped clean? 199
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Embodied memory versus monumentalism at Angkor,Cambodia 200
Into the future: Continuing and emerging directions 201Acknowledgements 202
12 Heritage and the Visual Arts 205Russell Staiff
The visual arts legacy 206Formalism 207Iconography 208Aesthetics 210Modernism 211
The visual arts within contemporary heritage 212Quotations and copies 213The co-option of the visual arts as national heritage 214
Conclusion 215
13 Industrial Heritage and Tourism: A Review of the Literature 219Alfonso Vargas-Snchez
State of the art 220Analysis of the literature survey 225Future directions 226
14 Curating Sound for Future Communities 234Noel Lobley
Field recordings, sonic heritage and sound curation 234The International Library of African Music 236The archive of BaAka music recorded by Louis Sarno 237
Pro-active sound archiving 237Sound elicitation and case studies 239
The Sound of Africa series, the International Library of AfricanMusic and urban Xhosa communities 239
Developing sound collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum 242Future directions for collaborative sound curation 244
15 Heritage and Sport 248Gregory Ramshaw and Sean Gammon
Connecting sport and tourism 248Sport museums and halls of fame 250Sports stadia and sporting venues 251Heritage-based sporting events 252Sport fantasy camps 253Personal sport heritage journeys 254
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Future directions in sport heritage 255Conclusion 257
Part IV Contested Heritage and Emerging Issues
16 Heritage in Multicultural Times 263Cristbal Gnecco
(Un)defining what cannot be defined 265Humanism, the market and governmentality: The multicultural
faces of heritage 270The fall of the house of heritage (as we know it) 273Coda: Brief gloss on a long UNESCO text 276
17 Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflict: New Questions for anOld Relationship 281Dacia Viejo-Rose and Marie Louise Stig Srensen
An old relationship with new questions and dynamics 282A two-way street: From protection to reconstruction and recovery 287The arming and disarming of cultural heritage 289Looking to a future imperfect: Intention and impact 292Acknowledgements 294
18 Heritage and Globalization 297Rodney Harrison
Heritage and globalization 297World heritage 298
The 1972 World Heritage Convention 301Critical studies of heritage and globalization 304Material-semiotic approaches to heritage: Actor-network theory,
assemblage theory and governmentality theory 304Heritage as design process, material intervention and global
transformation 308Future research directions 309
19 Critical Approaches to Post-Colonial (Post-Conflict) Heritage 313John Giblin
Setting the parameters 313Summary 315
Theoretical underpinnings 315The post-colonial critique 315The heritage critique 316
Discussion 317Event 317
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Site 319Nation 322Reappropriation, recycling and renewal 324
Conclusion 325
Part V Heritage, Identity and Affiliation
20 Heritage and Nationalism: An Unbreachable Couple? 331Tim Winter
Antiquity and the nation 332Imperialism, nationalism and classical glory 334Enduring narratives 339Acknowledgements 343
21 Heritage and Participation 346Cath Neal
Historic review of heritage practice 347Background 348
The broader context 352Why engage? 353Participation 356Localism and governmentality 358Conclusion 360Acknowledgements 362
22 Heritage and Social Class 366Bella Dicks
Introduction: From the Rhondda to Alnwick Castle 366What is heritage and what is class? 368National heritage, the people and nostalgia 369Class, collecti
