Emotional Heritage: Visitor Engagement at Museums and Heritage Sites

by Laurajane Smith

Book Overview

Emotional Heritage brings the issues of affect and power in the theorisation of heritage to the fore, whilst also highlighting the affective and political consequences of heritage-making.

Drawing on interviews with visitors to museums and heritage sites in the United States, Australia and England, Smith argues that obtaining insights into how visitors use such sites enables us to understand the impact and consequences of professional heritage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138888648
• ISBN13: 9781138888647
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"