Culture Heritage and Representation

The 'visual' has long played a crucial role in forming experiences associations expectations and understandings of heritage. Images convey meaning within a range of practices including tourism identity construction the popularization of the past through a variety of media and the memorialization of events. However despite the central role of 'the visual' in these contexts it has been largely neglected in heritage literature. This edited collection is the first to explore the production use and consumption of visual imagery as an integral part of heritage. Drawing on case studies from around the world it provides a multidisciplinary analysis of heritage representations combining complex understandings of the 'visual' from a wide range of disciplines including heritage studies sociology and cultural studies perspectives. In doing so the book provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical and methodological tools necessary for understanding visual imagery within its cultural context.