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  • Concise Introduction to Heritage Studies

    by Laurajane Smith ...
    Series series Elgar Concise Introductions
    Our Elgar Concise Introductions are inspiring and considered. They explain the key principles in business and are expertly written by some of the world’s leading scholars. The aims of the series are two-fold: to pinpoint essential concepts and to offer insights that stimulate critical thinking.This incisive book elucidates the field of Anglophone heritage studies, outlining its historical ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics

    Edited by Gönül Bozoğlu, Gary Campbell, Laurajane Smith, Christopher Whitehead ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks on Museums, Galleries and Heritage
    The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics surveys the intersection of heritage and politics today and helps elucidate the political implications of heritage practices. It explicitly addresses the political and analyses tensions and struggles over the distribution of power.Including contributions from early-career scholars and more established researchers, the Handbook provides ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Emotional Heritage

    Visitor Engagement at Museums and Heritage Sites

    by Laurajane Smith ...
    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 understand the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • 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 Tasmanian artefacts, Laurajane Smith dissects the nature and consequences of this clash of cultures.Smith ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Heritage, Communities and Archaeology

    by Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton ...
    Series series Debates in Archaeology
    This book traces the development of 'community archaeology', identifying both its advantages and disadvantages by describing how and why tensions have arisen between archaeological and community understandings of the past. The focus of this book is the conceptual disjunction between heritage and data and the problems this poses for both archaeologists and communities in communicating and engaging ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present

    Edited by Laurajane Smith, Margaret Wetherell, Gary Campbell ...
    Series series Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
    Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Presentis a response to debates in the humanities and social sciences about the use of emotion. This timely and unique book explores the ways emotion is embroiled and used in contemporary engagements with the past, particularly in contexts such as heritage sites, museums, commemorations, political rhetoric and ideology, debates over issues of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Safeguarding Intangible Heritage

    Practices and Politics

    Edited by Natsuko Akagawa, Laurajane Smith ...
    Series series Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
    The UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage came into force in 2006, framing the international and national practices and policies associated with intangible cultural heritage. This volume critically and reflexively examines these practices and policies, providing an accessible account of the different ways in which intangible cultural heritage has been defined ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Cultural Moment in Tourism

    Edited by Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton, Steve Watson ...
    Series series Advances in Tourism
    This book is a response to the burgeoning interest in cultural tourism and the associated need for a coherently theorized approach for understanding the practices that such an interest creates. Cultural tourism has become an important and popular aspect of contemporary tourism studies, as well as providing a rich seam of upscale product development opportunities in the industry as a whole. Much of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes

    Edited by Laurajane Smith, Paul Shackel, Gary Campbell ...
    Series 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, memory, music and literature.Rather than being framed in a 'social inclusion' framework, which sees ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • 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 importance, Smith forcefully demonstrates that heritage value is not inherent in physical objects or places, but ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Intangible Heritage

    Edited by Laurajane Smith, Laurajane Smith, Natsuko Akagawa, Natsuko Akagawa ...
    Series 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 ways in which intangible cultural heritage has been defined and managed in both national and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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    Art, Globalization and Urban Spaces

    Edited by Kristen Sharp, Elizabeth M. Grierson ...
    Re-Imagining the City: Art, Globalization, and Urban Spaces examines how contemporary processes of globalization are transforming cultural experience and production in urban spaces. It maps how cultural productions in art, architecture and communications media are contributing to the reimagining of place and identity through events, artefacts and attitudes. This book recasts how we understand ... Read more

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