Bøker i Critical Studies in Heritage, Emotion and Affect-serien

This book presents new ways of understanding heritage and heritage work. It develops and addresses the ways in which physical processes of creation, maintenance and decay are entangled with cultural and political processes.

This book presents methodological approaches that can help explore the ways in which people develop emotional attachments to historic urban places.

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 ΓÇÖheritage-as-objectsΓÇÖ and ΓÇÖobjects-as-representationsΓÇÖ 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.

This book seeks to curate the experiences of frontiers as spaces of transformation, exploration and adventure. It reflects on the nature, form and experience of frontiers in terms of individual engagements, cultural encounters, extreme or challenging experiences, danger and risk. It considers the frontier an experience where meaning is constituted from affective and emotional registers.

Heritage and its economies are driven by affective politics and consolidated through emotions such as pride, awe, joy and pain. This book focuses for the first time on relating heritage with the politics of affect. It argues that our engagements with heritage are almost entirely figured through the politics of affective registers. It questions how researchers working in the field of heritage might begin to discover and describe affective experiences, especially those shaped and expressed in moments that are personal and shared. It explores theoretical advances that enable heritage to be released from conventional understandings of both heritage-as-objects and objects-as-representations.