Books in the Critical Studies in Heritage, Emotion and Affect series

Heritage and its economies are driven by affective politics and consolidated through emotions such as pride, awe, joy and pain. This book focuses for the first time on relating heritage with the politics of affect. It argues that our engagements with heritage are almost entirely figured through the politics of affective registers. It questions how researchers working in the field of heritage might begin to discover and describe affective experiences, especially those shaped and expressed in moments that are personal and shared. It explores theoretical advances that enable heritage to be released from conventional understandings of both heritage-as-objects and objects-as-representations.

This book seeks to curate the experiences of frontiers as spaces of transformation, exploration and adventure. It reflects on the nature, form and experience of frontiers in terms of individual engagements, cultural encounters, extreme or challenging experiences, danger and risk. It considers the frontier an experience where meaning is constituted from affective and emotional registers.

This book presents methodological approaches that can help explore the ways in which people develop emotional attachments to historic urban places.