Books written by Emma Waterton

Making Culture: Commercialisation, Transnationalism, and the State of Nationing in Contemporary Australia

With the 1994 national cultural policy Creative Nation as a starting point for many of the essays included in this collection, the book investigates transformations within Australia's various cultural fields, exploring the implications of ...
Heritage, Affect and Emotion: Politics, practices and infrastructures

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.
Heritage and Emotion: Power, Place, Affect

This book conceptualises heritage in ways that cannot be encompassed through re-envisioning or 'new representational practices', but that need to be considered through embodied experience, encounters and accounts of feelings, affective and ...
Heritage, Affect and Emotion: Politics, Practices and Infrastructures

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 Semiotics of Heritage Tourism

This book is a fast-paced and thorough re-evaluation of what heritage tourism means to the people who experience it.
Taking Archaeology out of Heritage

This book aims to examine the conflation of heritage with archaeology that has occurred as a result.
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research

"This book explores heritage from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines and in doing so provides a distinctive and deeply relevant survey of the field as it is currently researched, understood and practiced around the world.
Heritage in Action: Making the Past in the Present

In this textbook we see heritage in action in indigenous and vernacular communities, in urban development and regeneration schemes, in expressions of community, in acts of nostalgia and memorialization and counteracts of forgetting, in ...
Heritage and Community Engagement: Collaboration or Contestation?

This 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.