The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research

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. Furthermore it establishes and develops through its various sections and chapters an accessible and clearly presented vision of heritage as a cultural process designed for use by students, advance scholars and practitioners alike. This book provides both critical insight and food for thought, directing the reader to key texts in the various aspects of the field and charting a course for future research.

Emma Waterton is a DECRA Fellow at the University of Western Sydney's Institute for Culture and Society, Australia. Her research explores the interface between heritage, identity, memory and affect. She is author of Politics, Policy and the Discourses of Heritage in Britain (2010, Palgrave Macmillan) and The Semiotics of Heritage Tourism (with Steve Watson; 2014).

Steve Watson is Principal Lecturer at York St John University, UK, where he teaches cultural and heritage tourism. His research is concerned primarily with the representation and experience of heritage and he has a particular interest in Spanish travel writing. His most recent book is The Semiotics of Heritage Tourism (with Emma Waterton; 2014).

Introduction: Heritage as a Focus of Research – Past, Present and New Directions; Emma Waterton and Steve Watson
PART I: HERITAGE MEANINGS
1.Heritage Methods and Methodologies; Emma Waterton and Steve Watson
2.Heritage and Discourse; Zongjie Wu and Song Hou
3.Heritage as Performance; Michael Haldrup and Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt
4.Heritage and Authenticity; Helaine Silverman
PART II: HERITAGE IN CONTEXT
5.From Heritage to Archaeology and Back Again; Shatha Abu Khafajah and Arwa Badren
6.Heritage and History; Jessica Moody
7.Thinking About Others through Museums and Heritage; Andrea Witcomb
8.Heritage and Tourism; Duncan Light
9.Heritage and Geography; Nuala C. Johnson
PART III: HERITAGE AND CULTURAL EXPERIENCE
10. Affect, Heritage, Feeling; David Crouch
11. Heritage and Memory; Joy Sather-Wagstaff
12. Heritage and the Visual Arts; Russell Staiff
13. Industrial Heritage and Tourism: A Review of the Literature; Alfonso Vargas Sanchez
14. Curating Sound for Future Communities; Noel Lobley
15. Heritage and Sport; Gregory Ramshaw and Sean Gammon
PART IV: CONTESTED HERITAGE AND EMERGING ISSUES
16. Heritage in Multicultural Times; Cristóbal Gnecco
17. Cultural Heritage and Armed Conflict: New Questions for an Old Relationship; Dacia Viejo Rose and Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
18. Heritage and Globalisation; Rodney Harrison
19. Critical Approaches to Post-Colonial (Post-Conflict) Heritage; John Giblin
PART V: HERITAGE, IDENTITY AND AFFILIATION
20. Heritage and Nationalism: An Unbreachable Couple?; Tim Winter
21. Heritage and Participation; Cath Neal
22. Heritage and Social Class; Bella Dicks
23. Of Routes and Roots: Paths for Understanding Diasporic Heritage; Ann Reed
24. Making Feminist Heritage Work: Gender and Heritage; Anna Reading
PART VI: HERITAGE AND SOCIAL PRACTICE
25. 'Thinkers and Feelers' a Psychological Perspective on Heritage and Society; John Schofield
26. Heritage and Policy; John Pendlebury
27. Heritage, Power and Ideology; Katharina Schramm
28. Heritage and Economic Development; Steve Watson and María del Rosario González-Rodríguez
29. Heritage in Consumer Marketing; Georgios C. Papageorgiou
30. Heritage and Sustainable Development: Transdisciplinary Imaginings of a Wicked Philosophy; Robyn Bushell
PART VII: CONCLUSIONS
31. Contemporary Heritage and the Future; Cornelius Holtorf and Anders Högberg
32. Themes, Thoughts, Reflections; Steve Watson and Emma Waterton