Engaging with the future of ‘critical heritage studies’: looking back in order to look forward

Witcomb, Andrea; Buckley, Kristal

doi:10.1080/13527258.2013.818570

Cited by 48 publications

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“…In these early views, it was implied that visitors are passive receivers of a heritage experience, one which has been manipulated by authorized heritage discourse (Smith, 2006). But with the critical turn in heritage studies (Harrison, 2013;Waterton and Watson, 2013;Winter, 2013;Witcomb and Buckley, 2013), more and more researchers have argued that visitors are not active experience seekers. They are able to (re)construct their experience and search for personal meaning at heritage sites (Alexander et al, 2017;McCain and Ray, 2003;Poria et al, 2009;Timothy and Boyd, 2006).…”

Section: Visitors' Experience and Well-being At Religious Heritage Sitesmentioning

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Tourists and Buddhist heritage sites: An integrative analysis of visitors’ experience and happiness through positive psychology constructs

Huang

Pearce

et al. 2019

Tourist Studies

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The influence of visiting Buddhist heritage sites on happiness is the core concern of this article. China’s four sacred Buddhist mountains provided the setting for the study. Sixty semi-structured interviews were conducted to examine the positive effects of Buddhism on visitors. Thematic analysis was first undertaken to understand the Buddhism-induced happiness. In the terms of Buddhism, the visitors’ happiness was related to the law of karma, impermanence and reincarnation. The PERMA model from positive psychology was then utilized as a second interpretive framework, in which positive changes in visitors’ attitudes, behaviours and life were noted. The links between the core values of Buddhism and the PERMA model were then established and portrayed. The study makes a theoretical contribution by connecting the positive psychology constructs and the effects of Buddhism in the tourism context. In addition, this study provides insightful suggestions for local communities to manage religious heritage sites sustainably.

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Section: Visitors' Experience and Well-being At Religious Heritage Sitesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourists and Buddhist heritage sites: An integrative analysis of visitors’ experience and happiness through positive psychology constructs

Huang

Pearce

et al. 2019

Tourist Studies

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“…Over the last decade, we have witnessed the rise of Critical Heritage Studies and with it several debates on the future of Heritage Studies (for some examples, see Harvey, 2001; Smith, 2012; Smith and Campbell, 2016; Waterton and Watson, 2013; Winter, 2013; Winter and Waterton, 2013; Witcomb and Buckley, 2013). Our aim is not to reiterate these, but rather to further discuss some of the more recent critique of CDA as standing in opposition to other recent theoretical influences within archaeology and Heritage Studies, such as non-representational theories and new materialism(s).…”

Section: The Future Of Heritage Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Uses of Heritage and beyond: Heritage Studies viewed through the lens of Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Realism

Skrede

Hølleland

2018

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Uses of Heritage (2006) has been an important contribution to the development of Heritage Studies. Resting on a thorough ‘re-read’ of this modern classic, the article analyses the text applying some central concepts from Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Realism in order to review the arguments put forward. One of the linguistic features from Critical Discourse Analysis we draw on is ‘nominalization’, which refers to replacing verb processes with a noun construction. Re-reading Uses of Heritage and other succeeding publications, it is apparent that the phrase ‘Authorized Heritage Discourse’ is nominalized and reified into an entity obscuring who does what to whom, thereby making the ‘Authorized Heritage Discourse’ a self-evident unit of explanation. Furthermore, the insistence on viewing heritage as a cultural process rather than as ‘things’ is not readably compatible with Critical Realism’s non-reductionist stance. Wrapping up, we nonetheless argue that really taking Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Realism on board could provide a rule of conduct for the future developments of Heritage Studies, where multifarious conceptions of heritage can co-exist.

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“…In doing so, we follow Littler, who argued that heritage as 'a form of past-in-the-present' (Littler 2005, 16) is a fundamentally open process which is actively shaped by social groups with different opportunities for asserting themselves and is therefore entangled with processes of inclusion and exclusion. In tracing the debate on Afrikanisches Viertel, our analysis is furthermore guided by critical heritage scholars who called for a better understanding of how those processes of in-and exclusion are put into practice in the field of heritage-making (Smith 2012;Winter 2013;Witcomb and Buckley 2013).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Negotiating German colonial heritage in Berlin’s Afrikanisches Viertel

Förster

Frank

Krajewsky

et al. 2016

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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Conceptualising heritage as a contested process of past-based meaning production in the present, this paper analyses the ongoing dispute over street names in Berlin's Afrikanisches Viertel. In 1899, Berlin named two of its newly-built streets Togo Street and Cameroon Street. Togo and Cameroon had been proclaimed the first German colonies in 1884. By 1958, 22 Berlin streets had been named after African regions that had been colonised by the German Empire or after German colonial protagonists. In 2004, several NGOs called for the renaming of some of these streets, igniting a fierce dispute over the heritage status of the German colonial past. Drawing on guided interviews and document analyses, we analyse this debate on three levels, showing how the NGOs and their claims have been marginalised on each level. While the level of agency can be traced back to the different positioning of the actors in the political field, the levels of temporality and spatiality belong to the realm of ideas about the world and one's place in it. By exploring the authoritative power of traditional notions of permanence, and of place and space, this paper seeks to bring temporality and spatiality into the focus of those studying heritage-making practices.

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Engaging with the future of ‘critical heritage studies’: looking back in order to look forward

Cited by 48 publications

References 19 publications

Tourists and Buddhist heritage sites: An integrative analysis of visitors’ experience and happiness through positive psychology constructs

Tourists and Buddhist heritage sites: An integrative analysis of visitors’ experience and happiness through positive psychology constructs

Uses of Heritage and beyond: Heritage Studies viewed through the lens of Critical Discourse Analysis and Critical Realism

Negotiating German colonial heritage in Berlin’s Afrikanisches Viertel

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