Making Places Sacred
Author/editor: Matt Tomlinson and Yujie Zhu
Year published: 2025
Although claims to sacredness are often linked to the power of a distant past, the work of making places sacred is creative, novel, renewable, and reversible. This book highlights how sacred space is newly made. It is often associated with blood, death, and geographic anomalies, yet no single…
Concise Introduction to Heritage Studies
Author/editor: Laurajane Smith
Year published: 2025
This incisive book elucidates the field of Anglophone heritage studies, outlining its historical development alongside core theoretical debates and research trends. Drawing on her own experiences working as an academic and practitioner in the subject, Laurajane Smith examines how diverse…
Immigrant Industry: Building Postwar Australia
Author/editor: Anoma Pieris, Mirjana Lozanovska, Alexandra Dellios, Andrew Saniga, and David Beynon
Year published: 2024
After the end of the Second World War, migrants were critical to the spatial making of modern Australia. Major federally funded industries driving postwar nation-building programs depended on the employment of large numbers of people who had been displaced by the war. Directed to remote, rural and…
China’s Heritage through History: Reconfigured Pasts
Author/editor: Yujie Zhu
Year published: 2024
China’s Heritage through History employs a longue durée approach to examine China’s heritage through history. From Imperial to contemporary China, it explores the role of practices and material forms of the past in shaping social transformation through knowledge production and transmission. The…
Repatriation, Science and Identity
Author/editor: Cressida Fforde, Hilary Howes, Gareth Knapman, Lyndon Ormond-Parker
Year published: 2024
Repatriation, Science, and Identity explores the entanglement of race, history, identity and ethics inherent in the application of scientific techniques to determine the provenance of Indigenous Ancestral Remains in repatriation claims and processes.The book considers how these issues relate to…
The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics
Author/editor: Gönül Bozoğlu, Gary Campbell, Laurajane Smith, Christopher Whitehead
Year published: 2024
The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics surveys the intersection of heritage and politics today and helps elucidate the political implications of heritage practices. It explicitly addresses the political and analyses tensions and struggles over the distribution of power.…
Emotional Heritage: Visitor Engagement at Museums and Heritage Sites
Author/editor: Laurajane Smith
Year published: 2021
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…
Heritage and Religion in East Asia
Author/editor: Shuli-Wang, Michael Rowlands; Yujie Zhu
Year published: 2021
Heritage and Religion in East Asia examines how religious heritage, in a mobile way, plays across national boundaries in East Asia and, in doing so, the book provides new theoretical insights into the articulation of heritage and religion. Drawing on primary, comparative research carried out in…
Heritage Tourism: From Problems to Possibilities
Author/editor: Yujie Zhu
Year published: 2021
As one of the world's fastest growing industries, heritage tourism is surrounded by political and ethical issues. This research explores the social and political effects and implications of heritage tourism through several pertinent topics. It examines the hegemonic power of heritage tourism and…
Notions of Heritage
Author/editor: Jessica Mace and Yujie Zhu
Year published: 2021
What is heritage ? This is the most fundamental but difficult question to be answered in heritage studies. It has been addressed many times, but singular definitions always seem to come up short. This book contributes to understandings of heritage as a multifarious construct. It sees it not as…