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Heritage, Affect and Emotion Heritage and its economies are driven by affective politics and consolidated through emotions such as pride, awe, joy and pain. In the humanities and social sciences, there is a widespread acknowledgement of the limits not only of language and subjectivity, but also of visuality and representation. Social scien- tists, particularly within cultural geography and cultural studies, have recently attempted to define and understand that which is more-than-representational, through the development of theories of affect, assemblage, post-humanism and actor–network theory, to name a few. While there have been some recent attempts to draw these lines of thinking more forcefully into the field of heritage stud- ies, this book focuses for the first time on relating heritage with the politics of affect. The volume argues that our engagements with heritage are almost entirely figured through the politics of affective registers such as pain, loss, joy, nostal- gia, pleasure, belonging or anger. It brings together a number of contributions that collectively – and with critical acuity – question how researchers working in the field of heritage might begin to discover and describe affective experi- ences, especially those that are shaped and expressed in moments and spaces that can be, at times, intensely personal, intimately shared and ultimately social. It explores current theoretical advances that enable heritage to be affected, released from conventional understandings of both heritage-as-objects and objects-as- representations by opening it up to a range of new meanings, emergent and formed in moments of encounter. While representational understandings of heritage are by no means made redundant through this agenda, they are destabilized and can thus be judged anew in light of these developments. Each chapter offers a novel and provocative contribution, provided by an interdisciplinary team of research- ers who are thinking theoretically about affect through landscapes, practices of commemoration, visitor experience, site interpretation and other heritage work. Divya P. Tolia-Kelly is Reader in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK. Emma Waterton is Associate Professor in the Geographies of Heritage at Western Sydney University, Australia. Steve Watson is Professor of Cultural Heritage at York St John University, UK. Critical Studies in Heritage, Emotion and Affect Series editors: Divya Tolia-Kelly (Durham University) and Emma Waterton (Western Sydney University) In Memory of Professor Steve Watson (1958–2016) This book series, edited by Divya P. Tolia-Kelly and Emma Waterton, is dedi- cated to Professor Steve Watson. Steve was a pioneer in heritage studies and was inspirational in both our personal academic trajectories. We, as three editors of the series, started this journey together, but alas we lost his magnificent scholarship and valued counsel too soon. The series brings together a variety of new approaches to heritage as a significant affective cultural experience. Collectively, the volumes in the series provide ori- entation and a voice for scholars who are making distinctive progress in a field that draws from a range of disciplines, including geography, history, cultural stud- ies, archaeology, heritage studies, public history, tourism studies, sociology and anthropology – as evidenced in the disciplinary origins of contributors to current heritage debates. The series publishes a mix of speculative and research-informed monographs and edited collections that will shape the agenda for heritage research and debate. The series engages with the concept and practice of Heritage as co- constituted through emotion and affect. The series privileges the cultural politics of emotion and affect as key categories of heritage experience. These are the reg- isters through which the authors in the series engage with theory, methods and innovations in scholarship in the sphere of heritage studies. Published Heritage, Affect and Emotion Politics, practices and infrastructures Edited by Divya P. Tolia-Kelly, Emma Waterton and Steve Watson Heritage, Affect and Emotion Politics, practices and infrastructures Edited by Divya P. Tolia-Kelly, Emma Waterton and Steve Watson First published 2017 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2017 selection and editorial material, Divya P. Tolia-Kelly, Emma Waterton and Steve Watson; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Divya P. Tolia-Kelly, Emma Waterton and Steve Watson to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or reg- istered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Tolia-Kelly, Divya Praful. | Waterton, Emma. | Watson, Steve. Title: Heritage, affect and emotion: politics, practices and infrastructures / edited by Divya P. Tolia-Kelly, Emma Waterton and Steve Watson. Description: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2016. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2016002731| ISBN 9781472454874 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315586656 (e-book) Subjects: LCSH: Cultural property–Psychological aspects. | Historic preservation–Psychological aspects. |A ffect (Psychology)–Social aspects. | Emotions–Social aspects. | Cultural property–Protection–Research. | Historic preservation–Research. | Cultural property–Protection–Social aspects. | Cultural property–Protection–Political aspects. | Historic preservation–Social aspects. | Historic preservation–Political aspects. Classification: LCC CC135 .H44 2016 | DDC 152.4–dc23 LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2016002731 ISBN: 978-1-4724-5487-4 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-58665-6 (ebk) Typeset in Times New Roman by Sunrise Setting Ltd, Brixham, UK Steve Watson, 14 June 1958–22 January 2016 Steve died on January 22, 2016, aged 57 and has left a large crater in our lives. His influence was international, and yet his spirit was immediate and personal. This spirit is etched in our everyday practice, both at home and at work. Steve's mod- esty steered us, and continues to pedagogically shape our practice. His intellect served to enrich our own, as he touched us with care and warmth. He practiced his vocation with elegance and humanity, and a collegiality that is rare. We hope that we can do justice to his memory by continuing in the spirit of his engagement with the world, without any hint of superiority, disrespect or derision. Steve was a true scholar and friend; one we doubt we will see the like of again soon. This volume was conceived and shaped with his lead and completed with his companionship: we dedicate it to him. Photo courtesy of the Watson family This page intentionally left blank Contents List of figures ix Notes on contributors xi Acknowledgements xvii Introduction: heritage, affect and emotion 1 Education Education DIvYA P. TOLIA-KELLY, EMMA WATERTON AND STEvE WATSON 1 Making polysense of the world: affect, memory, heritage 12 JOY SAETHdEuR-cWaAtGiSoTnA FF PArT I Memories 31 2 race and affect at the museum: the museum as a theatre of pain 33 DIvYA P. TOLIA-KELLY 3 Affecting the body: cultures of militarism at the Australian War Memorial 47 Education JASON DITTMER AND EMMA WATERTON 4 Affect and the politics of testimony in Holocaust museums 75 STEvEN COOKE AND DONNA-LEE FRIEzE 5 Museum canopies and affective cosmopolitanism: cultivating cross-cultural landscapes for ethical embodied responses 93 PHILIPP SCHORCH, EMMAE WdATuEcRaTOtiNo AnN D SETEdvuEc WaAtTiSoOnN 6 Constructing affective narratives in transatlantic slavery museums in the UK 114 LEANNE MUNROE viii Contents PArT II Places 133 7 Overlooking affect? Vertigo as geo-sensitive industrial heritage at Malakoff Diggins, California 135 GARETH HOSKINS 8 The castle imagined: emotion and affect in the experience of ruins 154 Education DUNCAN LIGHT AND STEvE WATSON 9 From Menie to Montego Bay: documenting, representing and mobilising emotion in coastal heritage landscapes 179 SUSAN P. MAINS 10 Touching time: photography, affect and the digital archive 201 LáSzLó MUNTEáN 11 Commemoration, heritage, and affective ecology: the case of Utøya 219 BRITTA TIMM KNUDSEN AND JAN IFvERSEN 12 Social housing as built heritage: the presence and absence of affective heritage 237 SOPHIE YARKER PArT III Practices 255 13 ‘Please Mr President, we know you are busy, but can you get our bridge sorted?’ 257 KEITH EMERICK 14 Dark seas and glass walls – feeling injustice at the museum Practitioner perspectives: rosanna raymond 276 Education AN INTERvIEW WITH ROSANNA RAYMOND BY DIvYA P. TOLIA-KELLY Index 293 Figures 3.1 “Tail End Charlie” 48 3.2 The Lone Pine diorama 59 3.3 The First World War galleries, prior to their redevelopment 60 3.4 The Kapyong faces: in photographs and the Kapyong diorama 61 3.5 The ghostly figures of the Menin Gate at Midnight 63 3.6 “Anzac Hall,” Striking By Night sound and light show 64 3.7 “Dust Off ” in the vietnam War gallery 66 3.8 The Bridge, HMAS Brisbane 68 3.9 The Discovery zone helicopter 69 4.1 History You Can’t Erase poster 82 5.1 Signs of a Nation/Ngā Tohu Kotahitanga exhibition within Te Papa 99 5.2 Leaving Home long-term exhibition, Immigration Museum, Melbourne 100 5.3 Te Hau ki Turanga in the Mana Whenua exhibition 102 5.4 Leaving Dublin: Photographs by David Monahan touring exhibition 2012–13, Immigration Museum, Melbourne 105 7.1 Panoramic strip of view from Chute Hill Campground Overlook 138 7.2 Chute Hill campground overlook sign 142 7.3 Marker posts on the Diggins Loop Trail 146 8.1 Landscape with castles: Dunstanburgh, Northumberland 156 8.2 The castle (re-)assembled, Bamburgh, UK: Norman with later restoration 162 8.3 The castle experienced: the remains of a staircase at Bolton Castle, UK 167 8.4 Dizzy heights at Bolton Castle, UK 169 8.5 Dangerous places, Monolithos, Rhodes 172 8.6 The castle imagined: a moment of reverie at Warkworth, UK 174

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Heritage and its economies are driven by affective politics and consolidated through emotions such as pride, awe, joy and pain. In the humanities and social sciences, there is a widespread acknowledgement of the limits not only of language and subjectivity, but also of visuality and representation.
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