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Heritage, Affect and Emotion

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Heritage, Affect and Emotion book

Politics, practices and infrastructures

Heritage, Affect and Emotion

DOI link for Heritage, Affect and Emotion

Heritage, Affect and Emotion book

Politics, practices and infrastructures
Edited ByDivya P. Tolia-Kelly, Emma Waterton, Steve Watson
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2016
eBook Published 1 July 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315586656
Pages 320 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315586656
SubjectsBuilt Environment, Geography, Humanities, Museum and Heritage Studies, Reference & Information Science
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Tolia-Kelly, D. (Ed.), Waterton, E. (Ed.), Watson, S. (Ed.). (2017). Heritage, Affect and Emotion. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315586656

Heritage and its economies are driven by affective politics and consolidated through emotions such as pride, awe, joy and pain. In the humanities and social sciences, there is a widespread acknowledgement of the limits not only of language and subjectivity, but also of visuality and representation. Social scientists, particularly within cultural geography and cultural studies, have recently attempted to define and understand that which is more-than-representational, through the development of theories of affect, assemblage, post-humanism and actor network theory, to name a few. While there have been some recent attempts to draw these lines of thinking more forcefully into the field of heritage studies, this book focuses for the first time on relating heritage with the politics of affect. The volume argues that our engagements with heritage are almost entirely figured through the politics of affective registers such as pain, loss, joy, nostalgia, pleasure, belonging or anger. It brings together a number of contributions that collectively - and with critical acuity - question how researchers working in the field of heritage might begin to discover and describe affective experiences, especially those that are shaped and expressed in moments and spaces that can be, at times, intensely personal, intimately shared and ultimately social. It explores current theoretical advances that enable heritage to be affected, released from conventional understandings of both ’heritage-as-objects’ and ’objects-as-representations’ by opening it up to a range of new meanings, emergent and formed in moments of encounter. Whilst representational understandings of heritage are by no means made redundant through this agenda, they are destabilized and can thus be judged anew in light of these developments. Each chapter offers a novel and provocative contribution, provided by an interdisciplinary team of researchers who are thinking theoretically about affect through landscapes, practices of commemoration, visitor experience, site interpretation and other heritage work.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |11 pages

Introduction: heritage, affect and emotion

ByDIVYA P. TOLIA-KELLY, EMMA WATERTON AND STEVE WATSON

chapter 1|19 pages

Making polysense of the world: affect, memory, heritage

ByJOY SATHER-WAGSTAFF

part |2 pages

PART I Memories

chapter 2|14 pages

Race and affect at the museum: the museum as a theatre of pain

ByDIVYA P. TOLIA-KELLY

chapter 3|28 pages

Affecting the body: cultures of militarism at the Australian War Memorial

chapter 4|18 pages

Affect and the politics of testimony in Holocaust museums

BySTEVEN COOKE AND DONNA-LEE FRIEZE

chapter 5|21 pages

Museum canopies and affective cosmopolitanism: cultivating cross-cultural landscapes for ethical embodied responses

chapter 6|19 pages

Constructing affective narratives in transatlantic slavery museums in the UK

part |2 pages

PART II Places

chapter 7|19 pages

Overlooking affect? Vertigo as geo-sensitive industrial

Byheritage at Malakoff Diggins, California

chapter 8|25 pages

The castle imagined: emotion and affect in the experience of ruins

chapter 9|22 pages

From Menie to Montego Bay: documenting, representing and mobilising emotion in coastal heritage landscapes

chapter 10|18 pages

Touching time: photography, affect and the digital archive

ByLÁSZLÓ MUNTEÁN

chapter 11|18 pages

Commemoration, heritage, and affective ecology: the case of Utøya

ByBRITTA TIMM KNUDSEN AND JAN IFVERSEN

chapter 12|18 pages

Social housing as built heritage: the presence and absence of affective heritage

part |2 pages

PART III Practices

chapter 13|19 pages

‘Please Mr President, we know you are busy, but can you get our bridge sorted?’

chapter 14|17 pages

Dark seas and glass walls – feeling injustice at the museum Practitioner perspectives: Rosanna Raymond

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