Consuming the Past
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3403192 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gaynor Bagnall (0000-0002-9870-9290, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1_suppl |
| Pages | 227-247 |
| Publication date | 1997-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-954x.1996.tb03443.x |
| OpenAlex | W2135975568 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 11 |
This chapter reports preliminary findings from case studies of two heritage-based sites in north west England: Wigan Pier and The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester. The research has involved examining both the production and consumption processes at work at these sites. The author focuses here on the area of consumption and presents data, collected in interviews with visitors to the two sites which suggest that visitors use emotional, imaginary and bodily maps to make sense of the past. The authenticity of the experience is sustained by an 'emotional realism' which enables and enhances the process of consumption. The author also argues that the manner in which these sites are consumed supplies one way of understanding the definitions and significance of the concept of heritage articulated by the visitors
Aesthetics · Art · Consumption (sociology) · Media studies · Process (computing) · Psychoanalysis · Realism · Social science · Sociology · The Imaginary · Visual arts · Computer Science · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Nostalgia and Consumer Behavior · Psychology
Audiences, museums and the English middle class
Playing with fire
Tourism consumption and tourist behaviour
Working the problems of Tourism
The PTA
Framing the land of the Northern Lights
Age as Artefact
The organizational construction of authenticity
Performance and performativity at heritage sites
The value of preserving endangered folk games using the contingent valuation method
Age as Artefact
Looking for the Real Me
Enlivening a ‘dead’ past
Literary places, tourism and the heritage experience
History museums, historical culture and the understanding of the past
Consuming the Past in Contemporary East Asia
Real People
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2021 (23) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |