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The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research This page intentionally left blank The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research Editedby Emma Waterton AssociateProfessor,UniversityofWesternSydney,Australia Steve Watson Professor,YorkStJohnUniversity,UK Editorialmatter,introductionandselection©EmmaWatertonand SteveWatson2015 Individualchapters©Respectiveauthors2015 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. 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Contents ListofFiguresandTables xiii Acknowledgements xv NotesonContributors xvi HeritageasaFocusofResearch:Past,PresentandNewDirections 1 EmmaWatertonandSteveWatson Heritageinthepast 3 Heritagenowandinthefuture 9 Thevolume’sstructure 11 Conclusion 14 Part I HeritageMeanings 1 TheOntologicalPoliticsofHeritage;orHowResearchCan SpoilaGoodStory 21 EmmaWatertonandSteveWatson Darkfiguresofheritage 23 Heritageresearched 25 Futuredirections 29 2 HeritageandDiscourse 37 ZongjieWuandSongHou Thenotionofdiscourse 37 Heritageasdiscourseanddiscursivepractice 39 Discourseanalysisandthecritiqueofheritage 41 Culturaldiscoursesof‘heritage’:Somealternativeendeavours 43 Futuretrendsindiscursivestudiesofheritage 45 Concludingremarks 48 3 HeritageasPerformance 52 MichaelHaldrupandJørgenOleBærenholdt Introduction:Theusesofheritage 52 The‘performanceturn’ 53 Performancesof heritage 55 v vi Contents Performancesat heritagesites 58 Performanceswithheritage 61 Conclusion:Amoderatestandonperformance 64 4 HeritageandAuthenticity 69 HelaineSilverman Heritageandauthenticityinthenineteenthcentury 70 Authenticityinarchitecturebecomesaninternational heritagedoctrine 72 UNESCO,authenticityandintangibleculturalheritage 75 Authenticity,heritageandtourism 76 Currentresearchonheritageandauthenticity 80 Implicationsofauthenticityforlocal,nationalandinternational heritagepolicy 82 Conclusion 84 Part II HeritageinContext 5 FromHeritagetoArchaeologyandBackAgain 91 ShathaAbuKhafajahandArwaBadran Inventingarchaeology 92 Fittingpeopleintoprehistoryusingtheculture-history approach 93 Reinventingarchaeologyinthenewworld 97 Newarchaeology:Scientific,abstract,generalanduniversal 98 Thesocio-politicalcontext:Humanizingarchaeologyand recognizingtheordinary 102 Conclusion 107 Acknowledgements 109 6 HeritageandHistory 113 JessicaMoody Introduction 113 Definingheritage,studyingheritage 113 Defininghistory,studyinghistory 114 PublicHistory 115 ThedevelopmentofPublicHistory 115 HeritagedebatesinBritain 117 Historyatwar 119 TheEnolaGay 120 2007andthebicentenaryoftheAbolitionoftheBritishSlave TradeAct 121 Contents vii Whatcanhistorydoforheritage? 123 Conclusion 125 7 ThinkingaboutOthersthroughMuseumsandHeritage 130 AndreaWitcomb 8 HeritageandTourism 144 DuncanLight Abriefhistoryofheritagetourism 145 Touringheritage:Makingidentities 148 Understandingheritagetourists 150 Conclusions:Afutureresearchagenda 153 9 HeritageandGeography 159 NualaC.Johnson Geographyandtheheritagedebate 162 Theorizingmemoryspaces 164 Space,memoryandheritage 166 Nature,heritageandidentity 167 Conclusion 170 Part III HeritageandCulturalExperience 10 Affect,Heritage,Feeling 177 DavidCrouch Introduction 177 Heritagejourneys 178 Phenomenologyandperformativity 179 Affect,emotion,feeling 181 Affect,feeling,knowing:Heritageandspacetimesofheritage 185 Conclusionsandongoingreflections 187 11 HeritageandMemory 191 JoySather-Wagstaff Selectedfoundations 192 Memoryinheritagestudies:Selectedtheoreticalissuesand currentkeythemes 194 Issues–historyversusmemory,containermodelsformemory 194 Themes–difficultheritage:History,place,bodyandmemory 195 Casestudies:Memory,landscapes,embodiment,difficultheritage 197 Precipitantsofre-memorythroughdomesticmaterial andvisualculture 198 Heritagewipedclean? 199 viii Contents EmbodiedmemoryversusmonumentalismatAngkor, Cambodia 200 Intothefuture:Continuingandemergingdirections 201 Acknowledgements 202 12 HeritageandtheVisualArts 205 RussellStaiff Thevisualartslegacy 206 Formalism 207 Iconography 208 Aesthetics 210 Modernism 211 Thevisualartswithincontemporaryheritage 212 Quotationsandcopies 213 Theco-optionofthevisualartsasnationalheritage 214 Conclusion 215 13 IndustrialHeritageandTourism:AReviewoftheLiterature 219 AlfonsoVargas-Sánchez Stateoftheart 220 Analysisoftheliteraturesurvey 225 Futuredirections 226 14 CuratingSoundforFutureCommunities 234 NoelLobley Fieldrecordings,sonicheritageandsoundcuration 234 TheInternationalLibraryofAfricanMusic 236 ThearchiveofBaAkamusicrecordedbyLouisSarno 237 Pro-activesoundarchiving 237 Soundelicitationandcasestudies 239 TheSoundofAfricaseries,theInternationalLibraryofAfrican MusicandurbanXhosacommunities 239 DevelopingsoundcollectionsatthePittRiversMuseum 242 Futuredirectionsforcollaborativesoundcuration 244 15 HeritageandSport 248 GregoryRamshawandSeanGammon Connectingsportandtourism 248 Sportmuseumsandhallsoffame 250 Sportsstadiaandsportingvenues 251 Heritage-basedsportingevents 252 Sportfantasycamps 253 Personalsportheritagejourneys 254 Contents ix Futuredirectionsinsportheritage 255 Conclusion 257 Part IV ContestedHeritageandEmergingIssues 16 HeritageinMulticulturalTimes 263 CristóbalGnecco (Un)definingwhatcannotbedefined 265 Humanism,themarketandgovernmentality:Themulticultural facesofheritage 270 Thefallofthehouseofheritage(aswe‘know’it) 273 Coda:BriefglossonalongUNESCOtext 276 17 CulturalHeritageandArmedConflict:NewQuestionsforan OldRelationship 281 DaciaViejo-RoseandMarieLouiseStigSørensen Anoldrelationshipwithnewquestionsanddynamics 282 Atwo-waystreet:Fromprotectiontoreconstructionandrecovery 287 Thearminganddisarmingofculturalheritage 289 Lookingtoafutureimperfect:Intentionandimpact 292 Acknowledgements 294 18 HeritageandGlobalization 297 RodneyHarrison Heritageandglobalization 297 ‘World’heritage 298 The1972WorldHeritageConvention 301 Criticalstudiesofheritageandglobalization 304 Material-semioticapproachestoheritage:Actor-networktheory, assemblagetheoryandgovernmentalitytheory 304 Heritageasdesignprocess,materialinterventionandglobal transformation 308 Futureresearchdirections 309 19 CriticalApproachestoPost-Colonial(Post-Conflict)Heritage 313 JohnGiblin Settingtheparameters 313 Summary 315 Theoreticalunderpinnings 315 Thepost-colonialcritique 315 Theheritagecritique 316 Discussion 317 Event 317