The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research [electronic resource] /
Waterton, E.editor.
Watson, S.editor.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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.
Civilization
World history.
Ethnology
Culture
Social history.
History, Modern.
Cultural History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.
Latin American Culture.
Cultural Studies.
Social History.
Modern History.