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Emotional Heritage: Visitor Engagement at Museums and Heritage Sites book cover

1st Edition

Emotional Heritage Visitor Engagement at Museums and Heritage Sites

By Laurajane Smith Copyright 2021
352 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

352 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

352 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Emotional Heritage brings the issues of affect and power in the theorisation of heritage to the fore, whilst also highlighting the affective and political consequences of heritage-making. Drawing on interviews with visitors to museums and heritage sites in the United States, Australia and England, Smith argues that obtaining insights into how visitors use such sites enables us to... Read more

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: Heritage, Politics and Emotion

  1. Critical realist heritage studies: Agency, reflexivity and materiality

    2.

  2. Reconsidering heritage and identity: The politics of recognition and the affective practices of heritage.

  3. Registers of engagement

    Part II: Methods and Quantitative Findings

  4. Methods

  5. Overall findings and national comparisons

    6.

  6. Genres of museums and heritage sites: Comparisons

  7. Demographic variables and visitor responses

    8. Part III: Emotional Heritage: Themes and Performances

  8. Reassessing learning: Changing views and deepening understanding

  9. Performing reinforcement and affirmation: ‘It just reinforces a lot of the stuff I think’

  10. Emotional banality and heritage-making: The banality of grandiloquence revisited

    11.

  11. Intergenerational communication and connection

    12.

  12. Heritage and the politics of recognition

  13. Heritage, privilege and the politics of misrecognition

Conclusion

Biography

Laurajane Smith is Director of the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra. She is Founding President of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, the editor of the International Journal of Heritage Studies, the cogeneral editor of Routledge’s Key Issues in Cultural Heritage and is best known for her previous book Uses of Heritage (2006, Routledge).

"Based on a massive amount of empirical research – conducted across continents and years – this ambitious book is a major contribution to heritage debates. Written with verve and clarity, its importance goes far beyond its crucial message that we need to take the emotional dimensions of heritage seriously. In　Emotional Heritage,　Laurajane Smith not only presents this groundbreaking project but also robustly sets out her analytical stall and manifesto for heritage studies." – Sharon Macdonald, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

"This well-researched and easily accessible book is major contribution to both heritage and emotion studies." - Sandra Engels, KULT_online

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