This paper surveys current notions of social and cultural presence as they may help the
evaluation of cultural heritage projects. We argue that cultural heritage requires specialized …

Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, yet leisure travel is more than just
economically important. It plays a vital role in defining who we are by hel** to place us in …

Names: Tolia-Kelly, Divya Praful.| Waterton, Emma.| Watson, Steve. Title: Heritage, affect
and emotion: politics, practices and infrastructures/edited by Divya P. Tolia-Kelly, Emma …

This book offers a critique of the dominant conceptualization of heritage found in policy,
which tends to privilege the white, middle and upper classes. Using Britain as an illustration …

This book challenges traditional approaches to heritage interpretation and offers an
alternative theoretical architecture to the current research and practice. Russell Staiff …

This book presents a new way of understanding heritage tourism that focuses on what
people feel and not just what they see. Traditionally, semiotics points to the study of signs …

The heritage crusade, as Lowenthal (2003) called it, is inextricably linked to an authenticity
craze. Authenticity in heritage has been sought, tested, praised, critiqued and denied from …

This paper outlines the main benefits and drawbacks of a posthumanist ontology for the
heritage field. Instead of embracing or rejecting posthumanism outright, the paper considers …

Heritage has been increasingly recognized as being intertwined with discourse and
discursive practices. To critically understand what heritage is and does in the present, how …

A core concern of this chapter is the ways through which heritage is given meaning. Of
course, heritage in terms of institutionalized sites, for example, is rendered with particular …