Encounters with Popular Pasts

 Mike RobinsonProfessor Mike Robinson holds the Chair of Cultural Heritage at the University of Birmingham, UK and is Director of the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage. He was previously Professor of Tourism and Culture at Leeds Metropolitan University and founder and Director of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change. Mike also is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (Routledge/Taylor Francis) and founder and Editor of the Tourism and Cultural Change book series published by Channel View Press. Over the past twenty-plus years Mike’s work has focused on the inter-relations between heritage, tourism and culture. He has published numerous books, articles and chapters on the various ways in which these realms intersect. Recent books include Emotion in Motion: Tourism, Affect and Transformation (Ashgate, 2012), The Framed World: Tourists, Tourism and Photography (Ashgate, 2009) and World Heritage and Tourism (University of Laval Press, 2011). He is the co-editor (with Tazim Jamal) and a contributor to the SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies (2012). Mike was commissioned by UNESCO to research and write a major report on Tourism, Culture and Sustainable Development (co-edited with David Picard) and also was later commissioned to write on tourism and representation for the UNESCO 2009 World Diversity Report. Mike is a long standing member of the UNESCO/UNITWIN Network on Tourism, Culture and Development, a former member of the Culture Committee of the UK National Commission for UNESCO, and a Board member/Trustee of the Council for British Research in the Levant, an Institute of the British Academy. Mike was a Government appointed member of the UK’s Expert Panel to determine the UK’s Tentative List for World Heritage in 2010-2011. He was recently appointed to the UNESCO Expert Panel to assist with the development of a Programme in World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism. Mike is a former Visiting Professor at the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy and is now Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University. Mike has undertaken work on tourism and heritage in Taiwan, India, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Belgium, South Africa, Lithuania and Austria and has worked on heritage and tourism related projects in a further 20 countries. He has organized over 20 major international conferences.Professor Mike Robinson holds the Chair of Cultural Heritage at the University of Birmingham, UK and is Director of the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage. He was previously Professor of Tourism and Culture at Leeds Metropolitan University and founder and Director of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change. Mike also is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (Routledge/Taylor Francis) and founder and Editor of the Tourism and Cultural Change book series published by Channel View Press. Over the past twenty-plus years Mike’s work has focused on the inter-relations between heritage, tourism and culture. He has published numerous books, articles and chapters on the various ways in which these realms intersect. Recent books include Emotion in Motion: Tourism, Affect and Transformation (Ashgate, 2012), The Framed World: Tourists, Tourism and Photography (Ashgate, 2009) and World Heritage and Tourism (University of Laval Press, 2011). He is the co-editor (with Tazim Jamal) and a contributor to the SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies (2012). Mike was commissioned by UNESCO to research and write a major report on Tourism, Culture and Sustainable Development (co-edited with David Picard) and also was later commissioned to write on tourism and representation for the UNESCO 2009 World Diversity Report. Mike is a long standing member of the UNESCO/UNITWIN Network on Tourism, Culture and Development, a former member of the Culture Committee of the UK National Commission for UNESCO, and a Board member/Trustee of the Council for British Research in the Levant, an Institute of the British Academy. Mike was a Government appointed member of the UK’s Expert Panel to determine the UK’s Tentative List for World Heritage in 2010-2011. He was recently appointed to the UNESCO Expert Panel to assist with the development of a Programme in World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism. Mike is a former Visiting Professor at the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy and is now Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University. Mike has undertaken work on tourism and heritage in Taiwan, India, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Belgium, South Africa, Lithuania and Austria and has worked on heritage and tourism related projects in a further 20 countries. He has organized over 20 major international conferences.Professor Mike Robinson holds the Chair of Cultural Heritage at the University of Birmingham, UK and is Director of the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage. He was previously Professor of Tourism and Culture at Leeds Metropolitan University and founder and Director of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change. Mike also is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (Routledge/Taylor Francis) and founder and Editor of the Tourism and Cultural Change book series published by Channel View Press. Over the past twenty-plus years Mike’s work has focused on the inter-relations between heritage, tourism and culture. He has published numerous books, articles and chapters on the various ways in which these realms intersect. Recent books include Emotion in Motion: Tourism, Affect and Transformation (Ashgate, 2012), The Framed World: Tourists, Tourism and Photography (Ashgate, 2009) and World Heritage and Tourism (University of Laval Press, 2011). He is the co-editor (with Tazim Jamal) and a contributor to the SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies (2012). Mike was commissioned by UNESCO to research and write a major report on Tourism, Culture and Sustainable Development (co-edited with David Picard) and also was later commissioned to write on tourism and representation for the UNESCO 2009 World Diversity Report. Mike is a long standing member of the UNESCO/UNITWIN Network on Tourism, Culture and Development, a former member of the Culture Committee of the UK National Commission for UNESCO, and a Board member/Trustee of the Council for British Research in the Levant, an Institute of the British Academy. Mike was a Government appointed member of the UK’s Expert Panel to determine the UK’s Tentative List for World Heritage in 2010-2011. He was recently appointed to the UNESCO Expert Panel to assist with the development of a Programme in World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism. Mike is a former Visiting Professor at the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy and is now Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University. Mike has undertaken work on tourism and heritage in Taiwan, India, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Belgium, South Africa, Lithuania and Austria and has worked on heritage and tourism related projects in a further 20 countries. He has organized over 20 major international conferences.Professor Mike Robinson holds the Chair of Cultural Heritage at the University of Birmingham, UK and is Director of the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage. He was previously Professor of Tourism and Culture at Leeds Metropolitan University and founder and Director of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change. Mike also is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (Routledge/Taylor Francis) and founder and Editor of the Tourism and Cultural Change book series published by Channel View Press. Over the past twenty-plus years Mike’s work has focused on the inter-relations between heritage, tourism and culture. He has published numerous books, articles and chapters on the various ways in which these realms intersect. Recent books include Emotion in Motion: Tourism, Affect and Transformation (Ashgate, 2012), The Framed World: Tourists, Tourism and Photography (Ashgate, 2009) and World Heritage and Tourism (University of Laval Press, 2011). He is the co-editor (with Tazim Jamal) and a contributor to the SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies (2012). Mike was commissioned by UNESCO to research and write a major report on Tourism, Culture and Sustainable Development (co-edited with David Picard) and also was later commissioned to write on tourism and representation for the UNESCO 2009 World Diversity Report. Mike is a long standing member of the UNESCO/UNITWIN Network on Tourism, Culture and Development, a former member of the Culture Committee of the UK National Commission for UNESCO, and a Board member/Trustee of the Council for British Research in the Levant, an Institute of the British Academy. Mike was a Government appointed member of the UK’s Expert Panel to determine the UK’s Tentative List for World Heritage in 2010-2011. He was recently appointed to the UNESCO Expert Panel to assist with the development of a Programme in World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism. Mike is a former Visiting Professor at the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università degli Studi di Trento, Italy and is now Visiting Professor at National Taiwan University. Mike has undertaken work on tourism and heritage in Taiwan, India, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Belgium, South Africa, Lithuania and Austria and has worked on heritage and tourism related projects in a further 20 countries. He has organized over 20 major international conferences.Helaine Silverman   Helaine Silverman is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she directs the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy (CHAMP). She also is a Visiting Research Fellow at Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage at the University of Birmingham, UK. Her research focuses on representations of the past in the construction and marketing of national identity; contemporary architectural and landscape scripting of cultural heritage sites; the interplay between official agencies of heritage management, tourists and local residents in historic urban centers; cultural governance, heritage conflicts, and cultural rights; and community production of heritage. Helaine is the editor of Archaeological Site Museums in Latin America (University of Florida Press, 2006), Cultural Heritage and Human Rights (Springer, 2007, with D. Fairchild Ruggles), Intangible Heritage Embodied (Springer, 2009, with D. Fairchild Ruggles), Contested Cultural Heritage (Springer, 2011) and Cultural Heritage Politics in China (Springer, 2013, with Tami Blumenfield). She is an expert member of the ICAHM and ICTC scientific committees of ICOMOS and is a member of Forum-UNESCO. She has served as a consultant to UNESCO on the nomination of several sites to the World Heritage List. She is a member of the editorial boards of International Journal of Heritage Studies, American Anthropologist, Heritage & Society, World Art, and Thema. She is the editor of the Heritage, Tourism and Community book series for Left Coast Press and a co-editor of the Multi-disciplinary Perspectives in Archaeological Heritage Management book series for Springer.

Chapter 1: Mass, Modern and Mine: Heritage and Popular Culture Mike Robinson and Helaine Silverman.- Chapter 2: When Popular Religion Becomes Elite Heritage: Tensions and Transformations at the Shrine of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina Michael A. Di Giovine.- Chapter 3: Experiencing Intangible Heritage on the Byway: The Mississippi Blues Trail and the Virginia Crooked Road Paul Hardin Kapp.- Chapter 4: Material Falsehoods: Living a Lie at This Old Fort Robert Pahre.- Chapter 5: Women, Tourism, and the Visual Narrative of Interwar Tourism in the American Southwest Joy Sperling.- Chapter 6: Deploying Heritage to Solve Today's Dilemmas: The Swedes of Rockford, Illinois Lynne M. Dearborn.- Chapter 7: From Co-op to Conglomerate: Quality Courts, World War II, and the Commodification of Travel John Presley.- Chapter 8: Branding Peru: Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture in the Marketing Strategy of PromPerú Helaine Silverman.- Chapter 9: Parodying Heritage Tourism Richard W. Hallett.- Chapter 10: Contemporizing Kensington: Popular Culture and the "Enchanted Palace" Exhibit Caitlin Carson, Julian Hartman, Cele Otnes and Pauline Maclaran.- Chapter 11: Collecting London 2012: Exploring the Unofficial Legacy of the Olympic Games Anna Woodham.- Chapter 12: "Democratizing" and : The from Urbana, Illinois Noah Lenstra.- Chapter 13: Uneasy Heritage: Remembering Everyday Life in Post-Socialist Memorials and Museums Sara Jones.- Chapter 14: Trees as Re-appropriated Heritage in Popular Cultures of Memorialization: The Rhetoric of Resilient (Human)Nature  Joy Sather-Wagstaff.

"These essays express the multiple meanings that are made through popular culture, and weigh carefully the way in which the popular tends to spin through webs of capital. ... This collection ... valuable to specialists, is also particularly useful for those looking for an introduction to this particular field, and likewise is well suited for adaptation in undergraduate courses. With its mix of the particular and the general, Encounters with Popular Pasts is a welcome addition to the ongoing conversation." (Malgorzata J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, Museum Anthropology Review, Vol. 10 (2), 2016)