Archaeology

US Cultural Diplomacy and Archaeology

Soft Power, Hard Heritage

By Christina Luke, Morag Kersel

Series: Routledge Studies in Archaeology

Archaeology’s links to international relations are well known: launching and sustaining international expeditions requires the honed diplomatic skills of ambassadors. U.S. foreign policy depends on archaeologists to foster mutual understanding, mend fences, and build bridges. This book explores how...

Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge

Heritage

Critical Approaches

By Rodney Harrison

Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums…we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How did heritage grow from the concern of a handful of...

Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge

Museum Basics

3rd Edition

By Timothy Ambrose, Crispin Paine

Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

Museums throughout the world have common needs and face common challenges. Keeping up-to-date with new ideas and changing practice is challenging for small and medium-sized museums where time for reading and training is often restricted. This new edition of Museum Basics has therefore been produced...

Published April 10th 2012 by Routledge

The Heritage Reader

Edited by Graham Fairclough, Rodney Harrison, John Schofield, John H. Jameson, Jnr.

This resource is a much-needed support to the few textbooks in the field and offers an excellent introduction and overview to the established principles and new thinking in cultural heritage management . Leading experts in the field from Europe, North America and Australia, bring together recent...

Published December 16th 2007 by Routledge

Heritage Studies

Methods and Approaches

Edited by Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, John Carman

This is the first volume specifically dedicated to the consolidation and clarification of Heritage Studies as a distinct field with its own means of investigation. It presents the range of methods that can be used and illustrates their application through case studies from different parts of the...

Published September 16th 2009 by Routledge

Conservation of Cultural Heritage

Key Principles and Approaches

By Hanna M. Szczepanowska

Conservation of Cultural Heritage covers the methods and practices needed for future museum professionals who will be working in various capacities with museum collections and artifacts. It also assists current professionals in understanding the complex decision-making processes that face...

Published December 5th 2012 by Routledge

The Dignity of Heritage

By Michael Rowlands, Beverly Butler

The Dignity of Heritage makes a radical break with routinised accounts and definitions of cultural heritage and with the existing or ‘established’ canon of cultural heritage texts. Jacques Derrida’s rallying call to ‘restore heritage to dignity’ is taken as an alternative guiding metaphor by which...

To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge

Memorylands

Heritage and Identity in Europe Today

By Sharon Macdonald

Memorylands is an original and fascinating investigation of the nature of heritage, memory and understandings of the past in Europe today. It looks at how Europe has become a ’memoryland’ – littered with material reminders of the past, such as museums, heritage sites and memorials; and at how this...

Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge

Difficult Heritage

Negotiating the Nazi Past in Nuremberg and Beyond

By Sharon Macdonald

How does a city and a nation deal with a legacy of perpetrating atrocity? How are contemporary identities negotiated and shaped in the face of concrete reminders of a past that most wish they did not have? Difficult Heritage focuses on the case of Nuremberg – a city whose name is indelibly linked...

Published November 13th 2008 by Routledge

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

Managing Cultural Landscapes

Edited by Ken Taylor, Jane Lennon

Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

One of our deepest needs is for a sense of identity and belonging. A common feature in this is human attachment to landscape and how we find identity in landscape and place. The late 1980s and early 1990s saw a remarkable flowering of interest in, and understanding of, cultural landscapes. With...

Published February 13th 2012 by Routledge

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

The Heritage of War

Edited by Martin Gegner, Bart Ziino

Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

The Heritage of War is an interdisciplinary study of the ways in which heritage is mobilized in remembering war, and in reconstructing landscapes, political systems and identities after conflict. It examines the deeply contested nature of war heritage in a series of places and contexts,...

Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge

Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights

Intersections in Theory and Practice

Edited by Michele Langfield, William Logan, Mairead Nic Craith

Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

This theoretically innovative anthology investigates the problematic linkages between conserving cultural heritage, maintaining cultural diversity, defining and establishing cultural citizenship, and enforcing human rights. It is the first publication to address the notions of cultural diversity,...

Published November 29th 2009 by Routledge

Heritage and Globalisation

Edited by Sophia Labadi, Colin Long

Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

This volume analyzes the politics, policy and practice of cultural heritage at the global level, identifying the major directions in which international heritage practice is moving, and exploring the key issues likely to shape the cultural heritage field well into the twenty-first century. It...

Published June 14th 2010 by Routledge

Places of Pain and Shame

Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage'

Edited by William Logan, Keir Reeves

Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

Places of Pain and Shame is a cross-cultural study of sites that represent painful and/or shameful episodes in a national or local community’s history, and the ways that government agencies, heritage professionals and the communities themselves seek to remember, commemorate and conserve these cases...

Published December 3rd 2008 by Routledge

Heritage and Tourism

Place, Encounter, Engagement

Edited by Russell Staiff, Robyn Bushell, Steve Watson

Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

The complex relationship between heritage places and people, in the broadest sense, can be considered dialogic, a communicative act that has implications for both sides of the ‘conversation’. This is the starting point for Heritage and Tourism . However, the ‘dialogue’ between visitors and heritage...

Published December 12th 2012 by Routledge

Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage

Edited by Kate Darian-Smith, Carla Pascoe

Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

Children, Childhood and Cultural Heritage explores how the everyday experiences of children, and their imaginative and creative worlds, are collected, interpreted and displayed in museums and on monuments, and represented through objects and cultural lore. Young people constitute up to half the...

Published November 18th 2012 by Routledge

Intangible Natural Heritage

New Perspectives on Natural Objects

Edited by Eric Dorfman

Series: Routledge Studies in Heritage

The topic of intangible natural heritage is new, recently emerging as an important subject of inquiry. It describes the untouchable elements of the environment that combine to create natural objects, and help define our relationship to them. These elements can be sensory, like auditory landscapes,...

Published August 24th 2011 by Routledge

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

Preventive Conservation in Museums

Edited by Chris Caple

Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

Preventive Conservation in Museums makes available and comprehensible the diverse literature and ideas of preventive conservation to an audience with a limited scientific background, principally those studying museum studies or engaged in the museum profession. It bridges the gap between the basic...

Published December 6th 2011 by Routledge

Museum Objects

Experiencing the Properties of Things

Edited by Sandra H. Dudley

Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

Museum Objects provides a set of readings that together create a distinctive emphasis and perspective on the objects which lie at the heart of interpretive practice in museums, material culture studies and everyday life. This reader brings together classic and up to date texts on the nature and...

Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge

Museums and the Paradox of Change

3rd Edition

By Robert R. Janes

Museums throughout the world are under increasing pressure in the wake of the 2008/2009 economic recession and the many pressing social and environmental issues that are assuming priority. The major focus of concern in the global museum community is the sustainability of museums in light of these...

To Be Published April 25th 2013 by Routledge

Museums and Social Activism

Engaged Protest

By Kylie Message

Series: Museum Meanings

Museums and Social Activism is the first study to bring together historical accounts of the African American and later American Indian civil rights-related social and reform movements that took place on the Smithsonian Mall through the 1960s and 1970s in Washington DC with the significant but...

To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge

Museum Architecture

A New Biography

By Suzanne MacLeod

Recent decades have witnessed an explosion of museum building around the world and the subsequent publication of multiple texts dedicated to the subject. Museum Architecture: A new biography focuses on the stories we tell of museum buildings in order to explore the nature of museum architecture and...

Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge

Displaced Things

By Sandra H. Dudley

Displaced Things explores the movements of material things from one setting to another. Its analysis examines how the qualities of objects, and the meanings and values with which they are attributed, change as they are repeatedly re-contextualised. The volume argues that our understanding of the...

To Be Published November 30th 2013 by Routledge

Doing Museology Differently

By Duncan Grewcock

Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

One might believe that museum studies is a stable field of academic inquiry based on a set of familiar institutional forms and functions. But as institutions museums have never been stable or singular, and neither has the discipline of museum studies. Museum studies as a field of academic inquiry...

To Be Published July 9th 2013 by Routledge

The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics

Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum

Edited by Janet C. Marstine

Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics is a theoretically informed reconceptualization of museum ethics discourse as a dynamic social practice central to the project of creating change in the museum. Through twenty-seven chapters by an international and interdisciplinary group of academics and...

Published June 21st 2011 by Routledge

Heritage and Social Media

Understanding heritage in a participatory culture

Edited by Elisa Giaccardi

Heritage and Social Media explores how social media reframes our understanding and experience of heritage. Through the idea of ‘participatory culture’ the book begins to examine how social media can be brought to bear on the encounter with heritage and on the socially produced meanings and values...

Published June 18th 2012 by Routledge

Museum Making

Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions

Edited by Suzanne Macleod, Laura Hourston Hanks, Jonathan Hale

Series: Museum Meanings

Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in building refurbishments and new gallery displays. This period has also seen the creation of countless new purpose-built...

Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge

Museums, Equality and Social Justice

Edited by Richard Sandell, Eithne Nightingale

Series: Museum Meanings

The last two decades have seen concerns for equality, diversity, social justice and human rights move from the margins of museum thinking and practice, to the core. The arguments – both moral and pragmatic – for engaging diverse audiences, creating the conditions for more equitable access to museum...

Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge

Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories

Edited by Sandra H. Dudley, Amy Jane Barnes, Jennifer Binnie, Julia Petrov, Jennifer Walklate

Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories is a wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the stories that can be told by and about objects and those who choose to collect them. Examining objects and collecting in different historical, social and institutional contexts, an international,...

Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge

The Thing about Museums

Objects and Experience, Representation and Contestation

Edited by Sandra Dudley, Amy Jane Barnes, Jennifer Binnie, Julia Petrov, Jennifer Walklate

The Things about Museums constitutes a unique, highly diverse collection of essays unprecedented in existing books in either museum and heritage studies or material culture studies. Taking varied perspectives and presenting a range of case studies, the chapters all address objects in the context of...

Published August 30th 2011 by Routledge