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1. The Cultural Moment in Tourism

   Edited by Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton, Steve Watson

   Series: Advances in Tourism

   This book is a response to the burgeoning interest in cultural tourism and the associated need for a coherently theorized approach for understanding the practices that such an interest creates. Cultural tourism has become an important and popular aspect of contemporary tourism studies, as well as...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
2. Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums

   Ambiguous Engagements

   Edited by Laurajane Smith, Geoff Cubitt, Kalliopi Fouseki, Ross Wilson

   Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

   The year 2007 marked the bicentenary of the Act abolishing British participation in the slave trade. Representing Enslavement and Abolition on Museums- which uniquely draws together contributions from academic commentators, museum professionals, community activists and artists who had an...

   Published July 19th 2011 by Routledge
3. Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes

   Edited by Laurajane Smith, Paul Shackel, Gary Campbell

   Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

   Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes is both a celebration and commemoration of working class culture. It contains sometimes inspiring accounts of working class communities and people telling their own stories, and weaves together examples of tangible and intangible heritage, place, history,...

   Published June 26th 2011 by Routledge
4. Intangible Heritage

   Edited by Laurajane Smith, Natsuko Akagawa

   Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

   This volume examines the implications and consequences of the idea of ‘intangible heritage’ to current international academic and policy debates about the meaning and nature of cultural heritage and the management processes developed to protect it. It provides an accessible account of the different...

   Published November 30th 2008 by Routledge
5. Cultural Heritage

   Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Edited by Laurajane Smith

   Series: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies

   Cultural Heritage is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies. Edited by Laurajane Smith of the University of York, UK, this four-volume collection brings together the essential Anglophone literature of heritage studies. Encompassing both...

   Published December 6th 2006 by Routledge
6. Uses of Heritage

   By Laurajane Smith

   Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Laurajane Smith identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world. Challenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be preserved because they have an inherent...

   Published August 15th 2006 by Routledge
7. Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage

   By Laurajane Smith

   This controversial book is a survey of how relationships between indigenous peoples and the archaeological establishment have got into difficulty, and a crucial pointer to how to move forward from this point. With lucid appraisals of key debates such as NAGPRA, Kennewick and the repatriation of...

   Published July 21st 2004 by Routledge