Emma Waterton
Biographic Data
| ID | 171853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emma Waterton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emma |
| FAMILY NAME | Waterton |
| SIGNATURE | WATERTON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1861-4567 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 620 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Emerging Voices in Landscape Research
In 2021, the journal Landscape Research began to reorient itself around an ethos of care. This reorientation led to: a call to adopt more ‘care-full’ reviewing practices; the shaping of new policie
Taking stock
In January 2019, almost a year before COVID-19 entered popular parlance, I wrote my first editorial for Landscape Research as the incoming Editor-in-Chief. I anchored that editorial to the theme of
Performing Identity and Belonging at Pearl Harbor
Prior to 7 December 1941, Pearl Harbor was perhaps best known for its associations with the Hawaiian Shark Goddess, its pearl-producing oysters and as a strategically important US naval base. It was not until 1962, some twenty years after its attack during World War II, that it emerged as a place of heritage, when the USS Arizona Memorial was first opened to the public. Transformed from a place of war to a place of heritage and finally into a pre…
Thinking and writing with care
Closing the climb: Refusal or reconciliation in Ulu r u-Kata Tju t a National Park
The Uluru Climb, located within Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, Australia, was permanently closed to tourists on the 26 October 2019 after decades of controversy. Determined by a unanimous vote of the Anangu majority Board of Management, news of the Climb’s closure quickly captured popular, political and media attention, not all of which was positive. Drawing on two periods of fieldwork – the first in November 2012 (n = 68 interviewees) and the s…
Heritage and the Politics of Exclusion
Given the volume of literature dealing with the 'politics of the past', it should come as no surprise that we have chosen to align these com ments with the growing recognition that archaeological practice is af fected by contemporary political affairs. In particular, our comments have much in common with recent, and strident, debates critiquing the instances in which heritage, archaeology, art and culture have been tac tically mobilised to encour…
Practicing care in a global pandemic
A lot has changed in the year between the penning of this Editorial, which commences Volume 46, and that which was written for Volume 45. One thing, however, has remained the same: a sense of crisi
Multidisciplinary engagements with Port Arthur’s landscapes of in/justice
The serial property, Australian Convict Sites, was recognised as ‘world heritage’ by UNESCO in 2010 and consists of eleven penal sites connected to Australia’s convict past. One of those eleven sit
Museums and Memory Experiences
Public Education and Archaeology: Disciplining Through Education
Early Islamic North Africa: A New Perspective
This volume proposes a new approach to the Arab conquests and the spread of Islam in North Africa. In recent years, those studying the Islamic world have shown that the coming of Islam was not marked by devastation or decline, but rather by considerable cultural and economic continuity. In North Africa, with continuity came significant change. Corisande Fenwick argues that the establishment of Muslim rule also coincided with a phase of intense ur…
From the tens to the twenties
There was a lot going on as I sat down to write this Editorial at the end of 2019. Heavy rains in the UK were prompting their usual chaos; droughts in parts of Africa had all but halted agricultura
Ghosts of the Anthropocene: Spectral accretions at the Port Arthur historic site
As a place of heritage, the Port Arthur Historic Site in Tasmania, Australia, provides a substantial representation of a colonial landscape. Principally associated with Australia’s convict history, the vestiges that are found there today take the form of extant buildings, shorelines, cemeteries, exercise yards and cells. Port Arthur is also thought to harbour less-tangible residues of its pasts in the form of ghostly apparitions and atmospheres. …
Cultural memory and identity in the context of war: Experiential, place-based and political concerns
Remembrance of war and conflict exposes the intricate interweaving of cultural memory and identity. Nations commemorate war to link narratives of the past with the present. This linking creates shared national narratives that temporally reinforce identities across the geography of the nation and among diverse citizenry. In this paper, the authors turn their attention towards the experiential and place-based concerns of the politics of memory with…
Unstable relations: Indigenous people and environmentalism in contemporary Australia
In the fields with which we are most familiar (archaeology and heritage studies), agitations for Indigenous land rights and the emergence of an interest in environmentalism are often traced, togeth
You'll go home with bruises”: Affect, embodiment and heritage on board HMS Belfast
What happens when a naval vessel (in this case, HMS Belfast ) is converted into a floating museum? This paper approaches this question with the concepts of assemblage and more‐than‐representational thought, in which the materialisation of the past is generative of a range of potentials that can shape encounters in the present. HMS Belfast is dedicated to conveying the specific history of the ship, as well as to providing a sense of what life on b…
The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies
Museums and Memory Experiences
Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies
More-than-representational landscapes
Landscape research has seen a burgeoning of interest in notions of 'affect', 'doing', 'performance' and 'practice' in the past decade or so. This chapter explores them within the range of work dealing with what has come to be termed more-than-representational theories. It explains offerings from humanities and social sciences literature that touch upon 'more-than-representational theories', before moving on to account for what such an approach to…
Books
Book Review Essays Sustaining the Past into the Future: Some Reflections on Mechanisms to Keep Heritage Meaningful and Sustainable Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability: Between Past and Future. Elizabeth Auclair and Graham Fairclough, eds. London: Routledge, 2015. Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage, Mia Ridge, ed. Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014. Museums, Power, Knowledge: Selected Essays. Tony Bennett. London: Routledge, 2018. Book Rev…
The ‘difficult heritage’ of the Native Mounted Police
This article intervenes in the debate about whether and how the ‘Frontier Wars’ should be represented in Australia’s military heritage. If they were to be represented, those who resisted British colonial occupation would figure as Aboriginal patriots in a renovated heritage of Australian service to country. We point out, however, that certain historical actors have been, so far (and perhaps forever), excluded from such a revised Indigenous milita…
Monster mines, dugouts, and abandoned villages: A composite narrative of Burra’s heritage
In a bid to join recent efforts to develop innovative approaches to heritage, this article argues that adopting a collaborative mode of inquiry is a useful way of coming to terms with the plurality of ways heritage landscapes are enlivened by their visitors. It also points to some of the advantages of incorporating researchers’ personal experiences into academic research. With a focus on the Burra Heritage Trail in South Australia (geared around …
For all Australians? An analysis of the heritage field
This article presents a field analysis of heritage tastes and patterns of engagements in Australia. Using multiple correspondence analysis, it examines a dimension of data collected as part of the 2014–2015 national survey on Australian cultural practices. The data are positioned against the recently published Australian Heritage Strategy, released in 2015, which marks out heritage as a cultural orientation of relevance ‘for all Australians’ (12)…
Curating affect: Exploring the historical geography–heritage studies nexus at Sovereign Hill
This paper explores the nexus of historical geography and heritage studies, using the case study of the Sovereign Hill outdoor museum in Ballarat, Australia. It reports on the application of more-than-representational thinking to spaces of heritage, and advances the argument that Sovereign Hill can be usefully understood as a semiotic landscape animated by the making, knowing and re-creation of the past, replete with both designed and incidental …
The recognition and misrecognition of community heritage
This paper revisits the notion of ‘community’ within the field of heritage, examining the varied ways in which tensions between different groups and their aspirations arise and are mediated. Our focus is a close examination of the conceptual disjunction that exists between a range of popular, political and academic attempts to define and negotiate memory, place, identity and cultural expression. To do so, the paper places emphasis on those expres…
The Utility of Discourse Analysis to Heritage Studies: The Burra Charter and Social Inclusion
This paper reviews the methodological utility of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in heritage studies. Using the Burra Charter as a case study we argue that the way we talk, write and otherwise represent heritage both constitutes and is constituted by the operation of a dominant discourse. In identifying the discursive construction of heritage, the paper argues we may reveal competing and conflicting discourses and the power relations that under…
Framing theory: Towards a Critical Imagination in Heritage Studies
Heritage theory has developed piecemeal over the last 30 years, with little progress made in fully understanding the way the subject can or should be theorised. This paper identifies some of the main sources of theory in heritage, as well as the approaches and perspectives that have been formulated as a result. These are framed on the basis of their disciplinary origins and can be viewed as theories in, theories of and theories for heritage. As f…
The museum as assemblage: Bringing forth affect at the Australian War Memorial
This article takes as its focus the Australian War Memorial, including its collections, the physical infrastructure of the site, its staff and the range of people who encounter it as tourists, researchers or military personnel and their families. In taking up this interest, our intention is not to diminish, ignore or bypass the role of narrative and representation in their spaces. Rather, we aim to contribute to a more-than-representational appre…
Whose Sense of Place? Reconciling Archaeological Perspectives with Community Values: Cultural Landscapes in England
Like other forms of heritage, landscape provides a vital repository of cultural meaning in relation to identity, belonging and sense of place. Despite this, the process of heritage management tends to obscure these links between landscapes and communities, and is thus neglectful of the experiences, perspectives and recollections that both individuals and groups bring to their engagement with heritage. This paper draws on the Hareshaw Linn communi…
Heritage and community engagement
This chapter surveys the term ‘community’ in relation to heritage management practices. It begins by offering an historical overview of the term before turning to assess methods of engagement. The chapter concludes by offering an exploration of the wider ethical implications tangled up with community engagement projects within the field of heritage studies. Overall, it aims to advance theoretical, methodological and political reflections upon com…
Geographies of memory, place and identity: Intersections in remembering war and conflict
The terms memory, place and identity exemplify the core concerns of geographical inquiry - focusing on linkages between people, place, and culture. In this review, we hone in on the intersections between these three terms in the context of the remembrance of war and conflict. We seek to highlight how memory informs the construction and maintenance of identities (personal, national, and supranational) post-conflict and post-war, and how these iden…
Sights of sites: Picturing heritage, power and exclusion
This paper explores the visual representations used to illustrate, promote and communicate a particular idea of heritage in the tourism literature, which provides an instance within which to examine the material consequences of a dominant discourse. This examination takes place within the context of current New Labour policy initiatives, which have put forward a new role for heritage, both in terms of the touristic experiences it can provide and …
Heritage protection for the 21st century”
This paper assesses the recent Heritage Protection Review (HPR) process, which culminated in the publication of the Heritage White Paper “Heritage protection for the 21st century” (DCMS, 2007). It argues that although the White Paper makes laudable and useful attempts at streamlining and clarifying the management and protection process, many of its proposed changes operate at the rhetorical level only. Indeed, it does little to challenge the domi…
Cultural memory and identity in the context of war: Experiential, place-based and political concerns
Remembrance of war and conflict exposes the intricate interweaving of cultural memory and identity. Nations commemorate war to link narratives of the past with the present. This linking creates shared national narratives that temporally reinforce identities across the geography of the nation and among diverse citizenry. In this paper, the authors turn their attention towards the experiential and place-based concerns of the politics of memory with…
Critical Heritage Studies
Critical heritage studies
In the spirit of self-mockery? Labour heritage and identity in the Potteries
This paper focuses upon the Potteries region in Staffordshire, UK and offers an examination of the ways in which people living there are actively and critically engaging with processes of identity and meaning-making. The overarching aim of the paper is to extend the analysis of labour history originally developed by Smith (2006 Smith, L. 2006. The uses of heritage, London: Routledge. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) in Uses of Heritage by examining…
The advent of digital technologies and the idea of community
Ghosts of the Anthropocene: Spectral accretions at the Port Arthur historic site
As a place of heritage, the Port Arthur Historic Site in Tasmania, Australia, provides a substantial representation of a colonial landscape. Principally associated with Australia’s convict history, the vestiges that are found there today take the form of extant buildings, shorelines, cemeteries, exercise yards and cells. Port Arthur is also thought to harbour less-tangible residues of its pasts in the form of ghostly apparitions and atmospheres. …
You'll go home with bruises”: Affect, embodiment and heritage on board HMS Belfast
What happens when a naval vessel (in this case, HMS Belfast ) is converted into a floating museum? This paper approaches this question with the concepts of assemblage and more‐than‐representational thought, in which the materialisation of the past is generative of a range of potentials that can shape encounters in the present. HMS Belfast is dedicated to conveying the specific history of the ship, as well as to providing a sense of what life on b…
A War Long Forgotten: Feeling the Past in an English Country Village
Battlefields have a particular hold on the imagination, inviting those who visit them to make conscious links between physical places and what is known to have happened there. People may align themselves with one or other of the protagonists and celebrate or regret a victory or defeat. Beyond the partisan, however, there is also the human response; reflections, perhaps, on the horror of war and its futility, the harm done to civilians, the affron…
Practicing care in a global pandemic
A lot has changed in the year between the penning of this Editorial, which commences Volume 46, and that which was written for Volume 45. One thing, however, has remained the same: a sense of crisi
Monster mines, dugouts, and abandoned villages: A composite narrative of Burra’s heritage
In a bid to join recent efforts to develop innovative approaches to heritage, this article argues that adopting a collaborative mode of inquiry is a useful way of coming to terms with the plurality of ways heritage landscapes are enlivened by their visitors. It also points to some of the advantages of incorporating researchers’ personal experiences into academic research. With a focus on the Burra Heritage Trail in South Australia (geared around …
Transnational war memories in Australia's heritage field
Academic interest in Australia's heritage field has developed primarily around the ways its subject has been used to support dominant national interests. Understandings of heritage, however, are increasingly shaped by developments occurring in other nation-states, as well as those occurring at the international level. This article considers the changing nature of Australian notions of heritage within the context of the 'transnational turn'. It do…
Talking the talk: Policy, popular and media responses to the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade using the `Abolition Discourse
The issue of slavery has received wide public and media attention in response to the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807. In this context, admissions of guilt and apology are potent and confronting as they threaten to disrupt the collective self-understanding of Britain and the Empire. As such, the silenced narrative of minority groups found little place within the British cultural semantics for remembering Abolition. This…
Taking stock
In January 2019, almost a year before COVID-19 entered popular parlance, I wrote my first editorial for Landscape Research as the incoming Editor-in-Chief. I anchored that editorial to the theme of
Thinking and writing with care
Heritage and the Politics of Exclusion
Given the volume of literature dealing with the 'politics of the past', it should come as no surprise that we have chosen to align these com ments with the growing recognition that archaeological practice is af fected by contemporary political affairs. In particular, our comments have much in common with recent, and strident, debates critiquing the instances in which heritage, archaeology, art and culture have been tac tically mobilised to encour…
Performing Identity and Belonging at Pearl Harbor
Prior to 7 December 1941, Pearl Harbor was perhaps best known for its associations with the Hawaiian Shark Goddess, its pearl-producing oysters and as a strategically important US naval base. It was not until 1962, some twenty years after its attack during World War II, that it emerged as a place of heritage, when the USS Arizona Memorial was first opened to the public. Transformed from a place of war to a place of heritage and finally into a pre…
Curating affect: Exploring the historical geography–heritage studies nexus at Sovereign Hill
This paper explores the nexus of historical geography and heritage studies, using the case study of the Sovereign Hill outdoor museum in Ballarat, Australia. It reports on the application of more-than-representational thinking to spaces of heritage, and advances the argument that Sovereign Hill can be usefully understood as a semiotic landscape animated by the making, knowing and re-creation of the past, replete with both designed and incidental …
Whose Sense of Place? Reconciling Archaeological Perspectives with Community Values: Cultural Landscapes in England
Like other forms of heritage, landscape provides a vital repository of cultural meaning in relation to identity, belonging and sense of place. Despite this, the process of heritage management tends to obscure these links between landscapes and communities, and is thus neglectful of the experiences, perspectives and recollections that both individuals and groups bring to their engagement with heritage. This paper draws on the Hareshaw Linn communi…
The Utility of Discourse Analysis to Heritage Studies: The Burra Charter and Social Inclusion
This paper reviews the methodological utility of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in heritage studies. Using the Burra Charter as a case study we argue that the way we talk, write and otherwise represent heritage both constitutes and is constituted by the operation of a dominant discourse. In identifying the discursive construction of heritage, the paper argues we may reveal competing and conflicting discourses and the power relations that under…
Methods in Motion: Affecting Heritage Research
While this chapter acknowledges the debt owed to studies of the representational, its primary purpose is to argue that much is overlooked by such analyses for the construction of meaning in the semiotic landscapes of heritage. Instead, the chapter points to styles of research practice that capture the essences of encounters and engagement in moments of emergent meaning within the affective and representational milieu of heritage. The chapter argu…
Heritage protection for the 21st century”
This paper assesses the recent Heritage Protection Review (HPR) process, which culminated in the publication of the Heritage White Paper “Heritage protection for the 21st century” (DCMS, 2007). It argues that although the White Paper makes laudable and useful attempts at streamlining and clarifying the management and protection process, many of its proposed changes operate at the rhetorical level only. Indeed, it does little to challenge the domi…
Introduction: Recovering Landscape as a Cultural Practice
The papers contained within this special section are the product of a small, intense workshop hosted by the Department of Archaeology, University of York, on 4 March 2006. Contributors to the works
Sights of sites: Picturing heritage, power and exclusion
This paper explores the visual representations used to illustrate, promote and communicate a particular idea of heritage in the tourism literature, which provides an instance within which to examine the material consequences of a dominant discourse. This examination takes place within the context of current New Labour policy initiatives, which have put forward a new role for heritage, both in terms of the touristic experiences it can provide and …
Talking the talk: Policy, popular and media responses to the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade using the `Abolition Discourse
The issue of slavery has received wide public and media attention in response to the bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act of 1807. In this context, admissions of guilt and apology are potent and confronting as they threaten to disrupt the collective self-understanding of Britain and the Empire. As such, the silenced narrative of minority groups found little place within the British cultural semantics for remembering Abolition. This…
Politics, Policy and the Discourses of Heritage in Britain
This book offers a critique of the dominant conceptualization of heritage found in policy, which tends to privilege the white, middle and upper classes. Using Britain as an illustration, Waterton expl
Museums and the bicentenary of the abolition of the British slave trade
Humiliated silence multiculturalism, blame and the trope of 'moving on
The issue of slavery has received wide media attention in response to the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade. Simultaneously, issues of multiculturalism and social exclusion have also been subject to tense debate. This paper aims to examine the rhetorical resources drawn upon at the juncture of these two areas of debate, particularly in terms of how the ‘slave trade’ and its abolition is understood, constructed and remembered. In ord…
The advent of digital technologies and the idea of community
Heritage and community engagement
This chapter surveys the term ‘community’ in relation to heritage management practices. It begins by offering an historical overview of the term before turning to assess methods of engagement. The chapter concludes by offering an exploration of the wider ethical implications tangled up with community engagement projects within the field of heritage studies. Overall, it aims to advance theoretical, methodological and political reflections upon com…
The recognition and misrecognition of community heritage
This paper revisits the notion of ‘community’ within the field of heritage, examining the varied ways in which tensions between different groups and their aspirations arise and are mediated. Our focus is a close examination of the conceptual disjunction that exists between a range of popular, political and academic attempts to define and negotiate memory, place, identity and cultural expression. To do so, the paper places emphasis on those expres…
People and their pasts: Public History Today
edited by Paul Ashton and Hilda Kean, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 324 pp., 43 images/figures, £58.00 (hardback), ISBN 978‐0‐230‐54669‐1 People and their Pasts: Public History Today, edit
In the spirit of self-mockery? Labour heritage and identity in the Potteries
This paper focuses upon the Potteries region in Staffordshire, UK and offers an examination of the ways in which people living there are actively and critically engaging with processes of identity and meaning-making. The overarching aim of the paper is to extend the analysis of labour history originally developed by Smith (2006 Smith, L. 2006. The uses of heritage, London: Routledge. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) in Uses of Heritage by examining…
The Cultural Moment in Tourism
Introduction: Moments, Instances, Experiences Part 1: The Moment in Theory 1. Meaning, Encounter and Performativity: Threads and Moments of Spacetimes in Doing Tourism 2. The Somatic and the Aesthetic: Embodied Heritage Experiences of Luang Prabang, Laos Part 2: The Moment Performed 3. Finding Dracula in Transylvania 4. Touring Heritage, Performing Home: Cultural Encounters in Singapore 5. The Commemoration of Slavery Heritage: Performance, Touri…
Unlearning the Colonial Cultures of Planning
The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies
Landscape and non-representational theories
Landscape research has recently seen a burgeoning of interest around notions of ‘affect’, ‘emotion’, ‘embodiment’, ‘performance’ and ‘practice’. Although these notions can be parcelled together in a variety of ways, in this chapter I want to situate them within the still developing range of work dealing with what has come to be termed non-representational theory. As a style of thinking, non-representational theory emerged in the mid-1990s. Though…
Tourism and Australian beach cultures: Revealing bodies
Examining the Olympics: Heritage, Identity and Performance
Sport is undoubtedly a central part of culture. As MacGregor (2006, p. ix) states, ‘it is impossible to know a people until you know the game they play. To understand America, you need to know foot
Critical Heritage Studies
Critical heritage studies
Framing theory: Towards a Critical Imagination in Heritage Studies
Heritage theory has developed piecemeal over the last 30 years, with little progress made in fully understanding the way the subject can or should be theorised. This paper identifies some of the main sources of theory in heritage, as well as the approaches and perspectives that have been formulated as a result. These are framed on the basis of their disciplinary origins and can be viewed as theories in, theories of and theories for heritage. As f…
The museum as assemblage: Bringing forth affect at the Australian War Memorial
This article takes as its focus the Australian War Memorial, including its collections, the physical infrastructure of the site, its staff and the range of people who encounter it as tourists, researchers or military personnel and their families. In taking up this interest, our intention is not to diminish, ignore or bypass the role of narrative and representation in their spaces. Rather, we aim to contribute to a more-than-representational appre…
Methods in Motion
History (39 works) · Sociology (37 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (36 works) · Political science (32 works) · Archaeology (31 works) · Art (30 works) · Aesthetics (24 works) · Law (23 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (21 works) · Geography (18 works)