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Call for Papers: RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2013, London, 28th-30th August 2013

Affecting Heritage: Revisiting the geographies and politics of heritage through affect and emotion (1 session slot sponsored by the SCGRG)

Organizers:      Divya P. Tolia-Kelly (University of Durham),

Emma Waterton (University of Western Sydney)

Steve Watson (York St John University)

Heritage landscapes are sites and spaces of emotion and are figured through the politics of the affective registers of pain, loss, joy, nostalgia and anger, to name just a few.  This session seeks to collate a suite of current research which is engaged with the affective politics of heritage sites. We invite provocative and challenging contributions from researchers who are thinking theoretically about affect and emotion through heritage landscapes, practices of commemoration, visitor experience, displays and heritage practices. Both empirically- and conceptually-focused papers are welcomed, particularly those that focus on the challenges, ethics and realities of conducting research around the politics of affect.

The session will focus on questions that include, but are not limited to:

· How can theories of affect and emotion be employed in research on heritage?

· How does affect and emotion shape the heritage landscape?

· How do the exhibitionary cultures of museums interweave with cultures of affect and emotion?

· How do heritage narratives of nation, ethnicity, identity, race and representation play out through the politics of emotions?

Please send title and abstract (c. 300 words) by email to ALL THREE convenors by Friday 1^st February 2013:

Divya P. Tolia-Kelly: [log in to unmask]

Emma Waterton: [log in to unmask]

Steve Watson: [log in to unmask]

NB: Paper proposals should include the name, affiliation and contact email addresses of all authors.