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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 prepared touristic experience, Pearl Harbor today transmits, absorbs and constructs a range of personal and nationally based meanings about the past. It thus provides a vivid case study through which to interrogate the construction of heritage in a politically charged, contested and institutionally mediated environment. Drawing on the reflexive responses of 73 visitors, collected through in-depth, onsite interviews with domestic tourists, the paper unfolds around two key themes: (1) the varied ways in which visitors come to terms with a ‘dark’ national past; and (2) the affective entanglements that emerge from such efforts and concomitant attempts to understand their visit as a performance of national identity.
Emma Waterton. Performing Identity and Belonging at Pearl Harbor. Geopolitics 2021, 1 -23.
AMA StyleEmma Waterton. Performing Identity and Belonging at Pearl Harbor. Geopolitics. 2021; ():1-23.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmma Waterton. 2021. "Performing Identity and Belonging at Pearl Harbor." Geopolitics , no. : 1-23.
Emma Waterton; Mary Hutchison; Hayley Saul. Multidisciplinary engagements with Port Arthur’s landscapes of in/justice. Landscape Research 2021, 46, 299 -308.
AMA StyleEmma Waterton, Mary Hutchison, Hayley Saul. Multidisciplinary engagements with Port Arthur’s landscapes of in/justice. Landscape Research. 2021; 46 (3):299-308.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmma Waterton; Mary Hutchison; Hayley Saul. 2021. "Multidisciplinary engagements with Port Arthur’s landscapes of in/justice." Landscape Research 46, no. 3: 299-308.
(2021). Practicing care in a global pandemic. Landscape Research: Vol. 46, No. 1, pp. 1-7.
Vera Vicenzotti; Emma Waterton. Practicing care in a global pandemic. Landscape Research 2021, 46, 1 -7.
AMA StyleVera Vicenzotti, Emma Waterton. Practicing care in a global pandemic. Landscape Research. 2021; 46 (1):1-7.
Chicago/Turabian StyleVera Vicenzotti; Emma Waterton. 2021. "Practicing care in a global pandemic." Landscape Research 46, no. 1: 1-7.
Emma Waterton; Hayley Saul. Public Education and Archaeology: Disciplining Through Education. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology 2020, 8990 -8997.
AMA StyleEmma Waterton, Hayley Saul. Public Education and Archaeology: Disciplining Through Education. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. 2020; ():8990-8997.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmma Waterton; Hayley Saul. 2020. "Public Education and Archaeology: Disciplining Through Education." Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology , no. : 8990-8997.
Emma Waterton. Museums and Memory Experiences. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology 2020, 7561 -7564.
AMA StyleEmma Waterton. Museums and Memory Experiences. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. 2020; ():7561-7564.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmma Waterton. 2020. "Museums and Memory Experiences." Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology , no. : 7561-7564.
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. Indeed, it is often referred to as being one of the most haunted places in Australia. However, rather than focus on the supernatural traces of some of the deviant criminals once imprisoned there, this article will take a broader account of ‘ghosts’ to consider the interrelations between human and nonhumans in the Anthropocene. To do so, we look to the abiding, ‘haunting’ presence of ‘arboreal-others’ in order to re-enliven our understanding of Port Arthur’s pasts and reimagine their role in its present and future.
Emma Waterton; Hayley Saul. Ghosts of the Anthropocene: spectral accretions at the Port Arthur historic site. Landscape Research 2020, 46, 362 -376.
AMA StyleEmma Waterton, Hayley Saul. Ghosts of the Anthropocene: spectral accretions at the Port Arthur historic site. Landscape Research. 2020; 46 (3):362-376.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmma Waterton; Hayley Saul. 2020. "Ghosts of the Anthropocene: spectral accretions at the Port Arthur historic site." Landscape Research 46, no. 3: 362-376.
Emma Waterton. From the tens to the twenties. Landscape Research 2020, 45, 1 -5.
AMA StyleEmma Waterton. From the tens to the twenties. Landscape Research. 2020; 45 (1):1-5.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmma Waterton. 2020. "From the tens to the twenties." Landscape Research 45, no. 1: 1-5.
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 board was like for sailors. Long‐term (auto)ethnography of the ship was conducted in 2016–2017. Drawing from the mobilities paradigm and a nascent literature on the geography of ships, we focus on the spatial affects of orientation and disorientation that result from the interactions between the ship's materiality and the bodies of its visitors. The latter is part of the curators’ desired experience, along with the re‐training of visitors’ bodies to negotiate the material infrastructure of the ship, as many sailors reported disorientation on board. The former is deployed to heighten visitors’ experience of the ship's extremes, such as depths of the boiler room. Our findings extend the cultural geographic literature on embodied experience of heritage and also provide an innovative case study of mobility on board an immobilised ship.
Jason Dittmer; Emma Waterton. “You'll go home with bruises”: Affect, embodiment and heritage on board HMS Belfast. Area 2018, 51, 706 -718.
AMA StyleJason Dittmer, Emma Waterton. “You'll go home with bruises”: Affect, embodiment and heritage on board HMS Belfast. Area. 2018; 51 (4):706-718.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJason Dittmer; Emma Waterton. 2018. "“You'll go home with bruises”: Affect, embodiment and heritage on board HMS Belfast." Area 51, no. 4: 706-718.
This new edition of The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies contains an updated and expanded selection of original chapters which explore research directions in an array of disciplines sharing a concern for ‘landscape’, a term which has many uses and meanings. It features 33 revised and/or updated chapters and 14 entirely new chapters on topics such as the Anthropocene, Indigenous landscapes, challenging landscape Eurocentrisms, photography and green infrastructure planning. The volume is divided into four parts: Experiencing landscape; Landscape, heritage and culture; Landscape, society and justice; and Design and planning for landscape. Collectively, the book provides a critical review of the various fields related to the study of landscapes, including the future development of conceptual and theoretical approaches, as well as current empirical knowledge and understanding. It encourages dialogue across disciplinary barriers and between academics and practitioners, and reflects upon the implications of research findings for local, national and international policy in relation to landscape. The Companion provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to current thinking about landscapes, and serves as an invaluable point of reference for scholars, researchers and graduate students alike.
Emma Waterton. More-than-representational landscapes. The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies 2018, 91 -101.
AMA StyleEmma Waterton. More-than-representational landscapes. The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies. 2018; ():91-101.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmma Waterton. 2018. "More-than-representational landscapes." The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies , no. : 91-101.
This new edition of The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies contains an updated and expanded selection of original chapters which explore research directions in an array of disciplines sharing a concern for ‘landscape’, a term which has many uses and meanings. It features 33 revised and/or updated chapters and 14 entirely new chapters on topics such as the Anthropocene, Indigenous landscapes, challenging landscape Eurocentrisms, photography and green infrastructure planning. The volume is divided into four parts: Experiencing landscape; Landscape, heritage and culture; Landscape, society and justice; and Design and planning for landscape. Collectively, the book provides a critical review of the various fields related to the study of landscapes, including the future development of conceptual and theoretical approaches, as well as current empirical knowledge and understanding. It encourages dialogue across disciplinary barriers and between academics and practitioners, and reflects upon the implications of research findings for local, national and international policy in relation to landscape. The Companion provides a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to current thinking about landscapes, and serves as an invaluable point of reference for scholars, researchers and graduate students alike.
Hayley Saul; Emma Waterton. Anthropocene landscapes. The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies 2018, 139 -151.
AMA StyleHayley Saul, Emma Waterton. Anthropocene landscapes. The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies. 2018; ():139-151.
Chicago/Turabian StyleHayley Saul; Emma Waterton. 2018. "Anthropocene landscapes." The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies , no. : 139-151.
Felicity Picken; Hayley Saul; Emma Waterton. Bedrock, metropolis and Indigenous heritage. Creating Heritage for Tourism 2018, 140 -153.
AMA StyleFelicity Picken, Hayley Saul, Emma Waterton. Bedrock, metropolis and Indigenous heritage. Creating Heritage for Tourism. 2018; ():140-153.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFelicity Picken; Hayley Saul; Emma Waterton. 2018. "Bedrock, metropolis and Indigenous heritage." Creating Heritage for Tourism , no. : 140-153.
Emma Waterton. Museums and Memory Experiences. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology 2018, 1 -5.
AMA StyleEmma Waterton. Museums and Memory Experiences. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. 2018; ():1-5.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmma Waterton. 2018. "Museums and Memory Experiences." Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology , no. : 1-5.
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 the Burra Heritage Passport), the article brings together four sets of research experiences, each informed by different (though cognisant) disciplinary backgrounds: art history, anthropology, heritage studies, and tourism planning. The result is a form of experimental autoethnographic writing in which four voices reflect upon their embodied, sensuous, and mobile experiences as ‘tourist’ moving through the same places, thereby offering multiple ways of knowing and telling about a single setting.
Emma Waterton; Russell Staiff; Robyn Bushell; Emily Burns. Monster mines, dugouts, and abandoned villages: a composite narrative of Burra’s heritage. Journal of Heritage Tourism 2018, 14, 85 -100.
AMA StyleEmma Waterton, Russell Staiff, Robyn Bushell, Emily Burns. Monster mines, dugouts, and abandoned villages: a composite narrative of Burra’s heritage. Journal of Heritage Tourism. 2018; 14 (2):85-100.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmma Waterton; Russell Staiff; Robyn Bushell; Emily Burns. 2018. "Monster mines, dugouts, and abandoned villages: a composite narrative of Burra’s heritage." Journal of Heritage Tourism 14, no. 2: 85-100.
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 military heritage: those Aboriginal peoples who ‘served’ in the Native Mounted Police. While the archival record is patchy, scholarship tells us that, in their pacification of frontiers, the Native Mounted Police killed many Aboriginal peoples. Interrogating the meaning of war heritage in Australia, we discuss the politics of forgetting against the obligations of historiography to collective memory and ask: must scholarship always interrogate identity-sustaining myth, in service to the truth? To explore this question, we adopt Sharon Macdonald’s concept of ‘difficult heritage’.
Tim Rowse; Emma Waterton. The ‘difficult heritage’ of the Native Mounted Police. Memory Studies 2018, 13, 737 -751.
AMA StyleTim Rowse, Emma Waterton. The ‘difficult heritage’ of the Native Mounted Police. Memory Studies. 2018; 13 (4):737-751.
Chicago/Turabian StyleTim Rowse; Emma Waterton. 2018. "The ‘difficult heritage’ of the Native Mounted Police." Memory Studies 13, no. 4: 737-751.
Emma Waterton; Hayley Saul. Unstable relations: Indigenous people and environmentalism in contemporary Australia. Australian Geographer 2018, 50, 134 -136.
AMA StyleEmma Waterton, Hayley Saul. Unstable relations: Indigenous people and environmentalism in contemporary Australia. Australian Geographer. 2018; 50 (1):134-136.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmma Waterton; Hayley Saul. 2018. "Unstable relations: Indigenous people and environmentalism in contemporary Australia." Australian Geographer 50, no. 1: 134-136.
Emma Waterton; Modesto Gayo. For all Australians? An analysis of the heritage field. Continuum 2018, 32, 269 -281.
AMA StyleEmma Waterton, Modesto Gayo. For all Australians? An analysis of the heritage field. Continuum. 2018; 32 (3):269-281.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmma Waterton; Modesto Gayo. 2018. "For all Australians? An analysis of the heritage field." Continuum 32, no. 3: 269-281.
The relationship between heritage and identity can hardly be doubted; indeed, identity has been central to the field of heritage since its inception. This is the case whether we are thinking in terms of research, policy, or popular engagements. In this chapter, the author draws from a combination of structured visitor interviews carried out on-site at two of the main rock art galleries within Kakadu National Park—Ubirr and Nanguluwurr—and in-depth, semistructured interviews undertaken with a selection of visitors some months after their initial visit. The questions participants were asked centered upon eliciting an understanding of how they understood Kakadu as an Australian heritage site, identifying in particular how they used the messages contained within the park to negotiate their own identities and shape their conduct toward others.
Emma Waterton. The Negotiation of Identity and Belonging in Kakadu National Park. Heritage at the Interface 2018, 1 .
AMA StyleEmma Waterton. The Negotiation of Identity and Belonging in Kakadu National Park. Heritage at the Interface. 2018; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmma Waterton. 2018. "The Negotiation of Identity and Belonging in Kakadu National Park." Heritage at the Interface , no. : 1.
Emma Waterton. Editorial: Changes, then and now. Landscape Research 2018, 44, 1 -5.
AMA StyleEmma Waterton. Editorial: Changes, then and now. Landscape Research. 2018; 44 (1):1-5.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmma Waterton. 2018. "Editorial: Changes, then and now." Landscape Research 44, no. 1: 1-5.
Emma Waterton; Hayley Saul. Public Education and Archaeology: Disciplining Through Education. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology 2017, 1 -8.
AMA StyleEmma Waterton, Hayley Saul. Public Education and Archaeology: Disciplining Through Education. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. 2017; ():1-8.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmma Waterton; Hayley Saul. 2017. "Public Education and Archaeology: Disciplining Through Education." Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology , no. : 1-8.
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 affective resonances and emotional affordances. The research upon which the paper is based aimed to capture the essences of encounters, engagements and moments of emergent meaning within a site that speaks to both an historic and newly made heritage. Key to this exploration were the energies, realities and responses of actual bodies as they moved around and interpreted the various ways in which Sovereign Hill presents the past to its visiting audiences. Methodologically, the paper draws from a series of qualitative visitor interviews gathered in 2014.
Emma Waterton. Curating affect: exploring the historical geography–heritage studies nexus at Sovereign Hill. Australian Geographer 2017, 49, 219 -235.
AMA StyleEmma Waterton. Curating affect: exploring the historical geography–heritage studies nexus at Sovereign Hill. Australian Geographer. 2017; 49 (1):219-235.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEmma Waterton. 2017. "Curating affect: exploring the historical geography–heritage studies nexus at Sovereign Hill." Australian Geographer 49, no. 1: 219-235.