A Companion to Heritage Studies (eBook)

William Logan is Professor Emeritus and UNESCO Chair in Heritage and Urbanism in the Cultural Heritage Centre for Asia and the Pacific at Deakin University, Melbourne. He has written, edited, or co-edited 14 books, including Hanoi: Biography of a City (2000), Places of Pain and Shame: Dealing with 'Difficult Heritage' (2009, edited with K. Reeves), and Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights: Intersections in Theory and Practice (2010, edited with M. Langfield and M. Nic Craith). A fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and member of the Heritage Council of Victoria, Dr Logan is on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Heritage Studies and Historic Environment. Máiréad Nic Craith is Professor of European Culture and Heritage and Director of the Intercultural Research Centre at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. She is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and has been a panel member for the UK Research Assessment Exercise (2008) and UK Research Excellence Framework (2014). Her publications include Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights: Intersections in Theory and Practice (2010, edited with W. Logan and M. Langfield), A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe (Wiley, 2012, edited with U. Kockel and J. Frykman), and Narratives of Place, Belonging and Language: An Intercultural Perspective (2012). Ullrich Kockel is Professor of Culture and Economy at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and a Visiting Professor of Social Anthropology at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas. A Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and Member of the Royal Irish Academy, he is on the Steering Group of Learning for Sustainability Scotland. His publications include Re-Visioning Europe: Frontiers, Place Identities and Journeys in Debatable Lands (2010) and A Companion to the Anthropology of Europe (Wiley, 2012, edited with M. Nic Craith and J. Frykman).

"A gateway to heritage studies for students and scholars alike. Global in outlook, interdisciplinary in approach, the volume offers an excellent introduction to such salient topics as tangible, intangible, and digital heritage, emotion and economics, tourism and destruction, conflict and post-conflict heritage, museums and landscapes, education and law, memory and sustainability, and nationalism and cosmopolitanism."
Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, University of Iceland



"Interdisciplinary and international in scope, the Companion to Heritage Studies succeeds in bringing together critical and practical, historicizing and future-oriented scholarship on what has become an all pervasive global interest and industry. This volume provides a source book for the specialist as well as a much needed resource for scholars and practitioners working in settings ranging from universities, to heritage sites, museums, diplomatic missions and local councils."
Regina F. Bendix, Göttingen University, Germany

"A vast and complete overview of the contemporary challenges of heritage preservation and management. This is an important book for practitioners, planners and policy makers. The Companion fills a gap and helps address many of the uncomfortable questions heritage preservation is facing today."
Francesco Bandarin, Special Advisor to UNESCO for Heritage and University IUAV of Venice