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Introduction : a visual heritage
No full textThe 'visual' has long played a crucial and formative role in structuring the experiences, associations, expectations and understandings of heritage. Images are used to convey meaning within a range of practices, including tourism, identity construction, the popularisation of the past through a variety of media, and the memorialisation of events and experiences. However, despite the fact that 'the visual' plays such a central role in these contexts, it has largely been neglected in heritage literature. This edited collection is the first of its kind explicitly to explore the production, use and consumption of visual imagery as an integral part of heritage within its broader social and political context. Drawing on case studies from England, Hong Kong, Greece, Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, Scotland, Israel, America, the Caribbean it provides a multidisciplinary analysis of heritage representations by weaving together complex understandings and experiences of 'the visual' from a wide range of disciplines including heritage studies, sociology and cultural studies perspectives. In doing so, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and methodological tools necessary for understanding visual imagery within its cultural context. The volume is organised around four central themes: Relocating the Visual in theoretical terms; Identity and Popular Memory; Visual Culture and Heritage Tourism; and, the Construction of Place. Each theme is explored from a range of disciplines, using case-studies that provide unique perspectives on the 'visual' in theory and in context
Heritage and community engagement : finding a new agenda
No full textThis book is about the way that professionals in archaeology and in other sectors of heritage interact with a range of stakeholder groups, communities and the wider public. Whilst these issues have been researched and discussed over many years and in many geographical contexts, the debate seems to have settled into a comfortable stasis wherein it is assumed that all that can be done by way of engagement has been done and there is little left to achieve. In some cases, such engagement is built on legislation or codes of ethics and there can be little doubt that it is an important and significant aspect of heritage policy. This book is different, however, because it questions not so much the motivations of heritage professionals but the nature of the engagement itself, the extent to which this is collaborative or contested and the implications this has for the communities concerned. Furthermore, in exploring these issues in a variety of contexts around the world, it recognises that heritage provides a source of engagement within communities that is separate from professional discourse and can thus enable them to find voices of their own in the political processes that concern them and affect their development, identity and well-being
Reconnections
No full textHeritage, in its many forms and practices, is not just a representation of the past; it is also a connection or a reconnection with the past that is active and alive in the present. An understanding of this “doing” of heritage is more important than ever in differentiating national, official and authorized versions of it from its more local, voluntaristic and alternative forms. While the heritage of nations and dominant groups appears static and unwavering in its representational practices, repeating and reinforcing the same discourses, the heritage of communities of interest or place is provisional and fragile, and depends on the capacity of people to organize, to do things, to act and re-enact and to make itself meaningful in moments of encounter and engagement. And whereas official heritage is often highly materialized and monumental, with a tendency to presentism and an urge to legitimize identity and power, reconnection is a relatively new heritage, active in discovery and rediscovery, free from official gloss and more gentle in its politics of belief, attachment and participation. In this sense it derives its motilities from individuals and communities who are affected and emotionally engaged with an object, a place or an event that may not even be recognized or represented in the official-professional account of the past. This is a heritage in action, doing rather than being, and connected and seeking connection. Using an example drawn from groups “doing heritage” in northern England, this chapter delineates a heritage made in the present and for the future by people for whom the official version of national heritage is very much a thing of the past
An introduction to Heritage in Action
No full textCultural heritage is a process, a discourse, a political reality, an economic opportunity, and a social arena as well as sites, objects, and performances. As such heritage “does work.” And as work cultural heritage is a cultural tool that is deployed broadly in society today. Heritage is at work in indigenous and vernacular communities, in urban development and regeneration schemes, in acts of memorialization and counteracts of forgetting, in museums and other spaces of representation, in tourism, in the offices of those making public policy, and all too frequently in conflicts over identity. Thus, heritage is not an inert something to be looked at. Rather, heritage is always in action, bringing the past into the present through historical contingency and manifold strategic appropriations and deployments. This volume emphasizes the active nature of heritage-making, hence heritage in action
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Museum canopies and affective cosmopolitanism : cultivating cross-cultural landscapes for ethical embodied responses
No full textIn his article 'The cosmopolitan canopy', Elijah Anderson (2004) describes
contemporary urban landscapes as those strongly affected by the forces of globalization, migration and industrialization. In Anderson's terms, public spaces in the United States have inevitably become racially, ethnically and socially more diverse; at the same time, those markers of difference have simultaneously contributed to the division of cityscapes into ethnic neighbourhoods and the resultant separation of social groups. This line of thinking reflects Mike Featherstone's (2002) comments on the significance of the city in cosmopolitan dispositions, Ulrich Beck's (2002) concept of cosmopolitanization as a kind of internalized globalization within the nation-state and Saskia Sassen's (2000, p. 153) characterizations of the city as a contested space where wealthy elites and low-income others jostle for space, each transnational in character but embedded and competing in specific places. The existence of Anderson's 'cosmopolitan canopies', however, enables people who are often confined to their ethnic group or social class to 'encounter others' and thus potentially develop a 'cosmopolitan appreciation of difference' (2004, p. 28; our emphasis). Anderson, (2004, p. 28) goes on to identify such settings or 'canopies' within the urban context of Philadelphia
in the USA, including areas such as 'the Reading Terminal, Rittenhouse Square,
Thirtieth Street Station, the Whole Foods Market, and sporting events'; surprisingly, museums do not feature on his list
Moments, instances and experiences
No full textThis book is based upon the relatively simple premise that ‘cultural tourism’, as it is currently imagined within tourism and related literature, is a misleading and inadequate term that needs to be fundamentally questioned. While this is a bold position from which to start a book, it is nonetheless one that we are comfortable with pursuing in order to stimulate debate
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