Museum and Heritage Studies

The Making of Heritage

Seduction and Disenchantment

Edited by Jasper Chalcraft, Camila Olga Del Marmol, Marc A. Morell

Series: Routledge Studies in Heritage

This volume explores the process of heritage making and its relation to the production of touristic places, examining several case studies around the world. Most existing literature on heritage and tourism centers either on its managerial aspects, the tourist experience, or issues related to...

To Be Published December 30th 2013 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

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

Museums in Postcolonial Europe

Edited by Dominic Thomas

The history of European nation-building and identity formation is inextricably connected with museums, and the role they play in displaying the acquired spoils and glorious symbols of geopolitical power in order to mobilize public support for expansionist ventures. This book examines the...

Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge

Writers' Houses and the Making of Memory

Edited by Harald Hendrix

Series: Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies

This innovative new book examines the ways in which writers’ houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novelists both reflect and construct the author’s private and artistic persona; it also demonstrates how this materialized process of...

Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge

Routledge Handbook of Heritage in Asia

Edited by Patrick Daly, Tim Winter

This Handbook is the first major volume to examine the conservation of Asia’s culture and nature in relation to the wider social, political and economic forces shaping the region today. Throughout Asia rapid economic and social change means the region’s heritage is at once under threat and...

Published December 12th 2011 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

International Law and the Protection of Cultural Heritage

By Craig Forrest

The world’s cultural heritage is under threat from war, illicit trafficking, social and economic upheaval, unregulated excavation and neglect. Over a period of almost fifty years, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation has adopted five international conventions that...

Published August 16th 2011 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

Ritual, Heritage and Identity

The Politics of Culture and Performance in a Globalised World

Edited by Christiane Brosius, Karin M. Polit

This book explores the importance of ritual and ritual theory to discourses of authenticity and originality, thereby deepening our insight into concepts of cultural heritage, identity and nation in a globalised world. The volume is the first interdisciplinary attempt to understand the significance...

Published July 20th 2011 by Routledge India

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

Making Japanese Heritage

Edited by Christoph Brumann, Rupert A. Cox

Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series

This book examines the making of heritage in contemporary Japan, investigating the ways in which particular objects, practices and institutions are ascribed public recognition and political significance. Through detailed ethnographic and historical case studies, it analyses the social, economic,...

Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge

Heritage and Community Engagement

Collaboration or Contestation?

Edited by Emma Waterton, Steve Watson

This book is about the way that professionals in archaeology and in other sectors of heritage interact with a range of stakeholder groups, communities and the wider public. Whilst these issues have been researched and discussed over many years and in many geographical contexts, the debate seems to...

Published August 8th 2010 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

The Making of the American Landscape

2nd Edition

Edited by Michael P. Conzen

The only compact yet comprehensive survey of environmental and cultural forces that have shaped the visual character and geographical diversity of the settled American landscape. The book examines the large-scale historical influences that have molded the varied human adaptation of the continent’s...

Published January 20th 2010 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 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

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

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

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

Natural Heritage

At the Interface of Nature and Culture

Edited by Peter Howard, Thymio Papayannis

It has become more and more accepted that nature conservation is not possible without taking into account human activities. Thus an integrated approach to both the natural and cultural heritage is being encouraged and developed. Gathering a number of distinguished authors with diverse backgrounds (...

Published January 16th 2008 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

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

The Nature of Cultural Heritage, and the Culture of Natural Heritage

Edited by David Lowenthal, Kenneth Olwig

The idea that the heritage of nature is fundamentally cultural is provocative to many, but it is becoming increasingly accepted in the context of heritage preservation. It is argued here that a person’s perspective on natural vs. cultural heritage as a contested patrimony is, to some extent,...

Published April 19th 2006 by Routledge

Heritage Interpretation

Edited by Marion Blockley, Alison Hems

Series: Issues in Heritage Management

An essential guide to present practice and policy concerning issues in heritage management, Heritage Interpretation draws on the accumulated expertise and international reputation for excellence of the UK heritage industry to describe and analyze best practice in heritage interpretation. The...

Published December 8th 2005 by Routledge

The Politics of Heritage

The Legacies of Race

Edited by Jo Littler, Roshi Naidoo

Series: Comedia

While 'social inclusion' and 'cultural diversity' circulate frenetically as buzzwords, are we really ready to accept that ideas about 'race' and 'ethnicity', rather than being a peripheral concern, are at the core of how a nation's heritage is represented and imagined?This book interrogates just...

Published February 6th 2005 by Routledge

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

The Dead and their Possessions

Repatriation in Principle, Policy and Practice

Edited by Cressida Fforde, Jane Hubert, Paul Turnbull

Series: One World Archaeology

Inspired by a key session for the World Archaeological Congress in South Africa, The Dead and their Possessions is the first book to tackle the principle, policy and practice of repatriating museum artefacts, rather than cultural heritage in general. Increasingly, indigenous people world-wide...

Published June 23rd 2004 by Routledge

Public Archaeology

Edited by Nick Merriman

Scrutinizing, in detail, the relationship between archaeology, heritage and the public, this much-needed volume explores public interest and participation in archaeology as a subject worthy of academic attention in its own right. Examining case studies from throughout the world; from North America...

Published April 21st 2004 by Routledge