Heritage, Affect and Emotion by Divya P Tolia-Kelly

Heritage, Affect and Emotion by Divya P Tolia-Kelly

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.

Divya P. Tolia-Kelly is Reader in the Department of Geography at Durham University, UK.

Emma Waterton is Associate Professor in the Geographies of Heritage at Western Sydney University, Australia.

Steve Watson is Professor of Cultural Heritage at York St John University, UK.

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ISBN 13	9781138547346
ISBN 10	1138547344
Title	Heritage, Affect and Emotion
Author	Divya P Tolia-Kelly
Series	Critical Studies In Heritage Emotion And Affect
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2018-02-06
Number of pages	320
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