Museum and Heritage Studies

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

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

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

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

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

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