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  • Arts, Heritage and Performative Politics

    This pioneering book analyzes the intersection of arts, heritage and performative politics, challenging traditional distinctions between these disciplines. Highlighting the value of art-based approaches to heritage research, it outlines diverse artistic practices to expand the boundaries of the field.Departing from the conventional notion of heritage as a static artefact, the book reveals how art ... Read more

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  • Tourism, Performance and the Everyday

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    Series series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
    Tourism has become increasingly ‘exotic’, a process made possible by low-cost charter tourism and cheaper air tickets. Faraway and evermore ‘exotic’ holidays are becoming widespread and within reach as destinations make their entry into the mass tourism market. Strolls through the bazaars of Istanbul and cruises on the Nile are packaged into the sea, sand and sun culture of traditional forms of ... Read more

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  • Performing Tourist Places

    Series series New Directions in Tourism Analysis
    This book looks at the making and the consuming of places in the contemporary world. Illustrated through various case-studies from Denmark, it considers how places, performances and peoples intersect. It examines the fascinating circumstances through which visitors to a place, in part, produce that place through their performances. Places are intertwined with people through various systems that ... Read more

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  • Experimental Museology

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    Experimental Museology scrutinizes innovative endeavours to transform museum interactions with the world. Analysing cutting-edge cases from around the globe, the volume demonstrates how museums can design, apply and assess new modes of audience engagement and participation.Written by an interdisciplinary group of researchers and research-led professionals, the book argues that museum ... Read more

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  • Critical Perspectives on Applied Theatre

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  • Industrial Heritage Tourism

    Series Book 43 - Tourism and Cultural Change
    This book examines the complex interplay between industrial heritage and tourism. It serves to stimulate meaningful dialogue about the socioeconomic values of industrial sites and the use of tourism for the growth of the creative economy, and to better understand how the collective social memory and local identity connected to these sites have been shaped by different social groups over time. The ... Read more

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  • The Everyday Practice of Public Art

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    The Everyday Practice of Public Art: Art, Space, and Social Inclusion is a multidisciplinary anthology of analyses exploring the expansion of contemporary public art issues beyond the built environment.It follows the highly successful publication The Practice of Public Art (eds. Cartiere and Willis), and expands the analysis of the field with a broad perspective which includes practicing artists, ... Read more

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  • Re-Imagining the City

    Art, Globalization and Urban Spaces

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  • The Tourist Gaze 3.0

    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
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