Emotional Heritage: Visitor Engagement at Museums and Heritage Sites

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Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents List of figures List of tables Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Introduction Part I Heritage, politics and emotion 1 Critical realist heritage studies: agency, reflexivity and materiality 2 Reconsidering heritage and identity: the politics of recognition and the affective practices of heritage 3 Registers of engagement Part II Methods and quantitative findings 4 Methods 5 Overall findings and national comparisons 6 Genres of museums and heritage sites: comparisons 7 Demographic variables and visitor responses Part III Emotional heritage: themes and performances 8 Reassessing learning: changing views and deepening understanding 9 Performing reinforcement and affirmation: ‘it just reinforces a lot of the stuff I think’ 10 Emotional banality and heritage-making: the banality of grandiloquence revisited 11 Intergenerational communication and connection 12 Heritage and the politics of recognition 13 Heritage, privilege and the politics of misrecogntion Conclusion References Index