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The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (33 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvi
  2. Heritage as a Focus of Research: Past, Present and New Directions

  3. Heritage Meanings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-20
    2. Heritage and Discourse

      • Zongjie Wu, Song Hou
      Pages 37-51
    3. Heritage as Performance

      • Michael Haldrup, Jørgen Ole BÅ“renholdt
      Pages 52-68
    4. Heritage and Authenticity

      • Helaine Silverman
      Pages 69-88
  4. Heritage in Context

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-90
    2. From Heritage to Archaeology and Back Again

      • Shatha Abu Khafajah, Arwa Badran
      Pages 91-112
    3. Heritage and History

      • Jessica Moody
      Pages 113-129
    4. Heritage and Tourism

      • Duncan Light
      Pages 144-158
    5. Heritage and Geography

      • Nuala C. Johnson
      Pages 159-173
  5. Heritage and Cultural Experience

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-176
    2. Affect, Heritage, Feeling

      • David Crouch
      Pages 177-190
    3. Heritage and Memory

      • Joy Sather-Wagstaff
      Pages 191-204
    4. Heritage and the Visual Arts

      • Russell Staiff
      Pages 205-218
    5. Industrial Heritage and Tourism: A Review of the Literature

      • Alfonso Vargas-Sánchez
      Pages 219-233
    6. Curating Sound for Future Communities

      • Noel Lobley
      Pages 234-247
    7. Heritage and Sport

      • Gregory Ramshaw, Sean Gammon
      Pages 248-260

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Western Sydney, Australia

    Emma Waterton

  • York St John University, UK

    Steve Watson

About the editors

Shatha Abu Khafajah, Hashemite University, Jordan Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt, Roskilde University, Denmark Arwa Badran, independent researcher, UK Robyn Bushell, University of Western Sydney, Australia David Crouch, University of Derby, UK Bella Dicks, Cardiff University, UK Sean Gammon, University of Central Lancashire, UK John Giblin, University of Western Sydney, Australia Cristóbal Gnecco, University of Cauca, Colombia Michael Haldrup, Roskilde University, Denmark Rodney Harrison, University College London, UK Cornelius Holtorf, University in Kalmar, Sweden Anders Högberg, University in Kalmar, Sweden Song Hou, Zhejiang University, China Nuala C. Johnson, Queen's University Belfast, UK Duncan Light, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK Noel Lobley, University of Oxford, UK Jessica Moody, University of York, UK Cath Neal, University of York, UK Georgios C. Papageorgiou, Deree the American College of Greece John Pendlebury, Newcastle University, UK Gregory Ramshaw, Clemson University, USA Anna Reading, Kings College, University of London, UK Ann Reed, University of North Dakota, USA María Rosario González-Rodríguez, University of Seville, Spain Joy Sather-Wagstaff, North Dakota State University, USA John Schofield, University of York, UK Katharina Schramm, Martin-Luther-University, USA Helaine Silverman, University of Illinois, USA Russell Staiff, University of Melbourne, Australia Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, University of Cambridge, UK Alfonso Vargas-Sánchez, Spanish University of Huelva Dacia Viejo Rose, University of Cambridge, UK Tim Winter, Deakin University, Australia Andrea Witcomb, Deakin University, Australia Wu Zongjie, Zhejiang University, China

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