Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present

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Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of contents
List of illustrations
List of Contributors
Series Editors’ foreword
Introduction: Affective heritage practices
	Introduction
	Affective practice
	Utility of affective practice to critical heritage studies
	Commemoration and remembering
	Belonging and exclusion
	Learning, teaching and engaging
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Part I Commemoration and remembering
	Chapter 2 Labour of love and devotion? The search for the lost soldiers of Russia
		The war and the search for lost soldiers
		The work of the search unit
		Guiding the war
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 3 Troubling heritage: Intimate pasts and public memories at Derry/Londonderry’s ‘Temple’
		Introduction
		A Temple to loss: Heritage and affect in post-conflict Northern Ireland
		Spatialising Temple
		Fire and its multiple meanings
		What they brought to Temple: Affect and engagement with a multiplicity of histories
		Intimate pasts and public memories
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 4 Commemoration, affective practice and the difficult histories of war
		Introduction
		Affective practice and the heterotopia
		Australia in the Great War
		WWI: Love and Sorrow
		Concluding comments
		Note
		References
	Chapter 5 Constructing heritage through subjectivity: Museum of Broken Relationships
		Introduction
		Affect in museums and heritage sites
		Museum of Broken Relationships
		Methodology
		Museum creators’ affective practice – from individual to social through curation
		Visitors’ affective practices – engaging with the self and with others
		Transforming museum communication into affective flow
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 6 The Battle of Orgreave (1984)
		Introduction
		The Battle of Orgreave (1984)
		The Battle of Orgreave (2001)
		Part One: The Battle of Orgreave (2001)
		Part Two: Critical receptions
		The press
		Part Three: Affecting heritage
		Conclusion
		References
Part II Belonging and exclusion
	Chapter 7 Apologising for past wrongs: Emotion–reason rhetoric in political discourse
		Introduction
		Redefining the nation and national identity
		Reason and emotion
		Analytical approach
		Analysis and discussion
			Rudd’s national apology
				Redefining national history: The truth about the blemished past
			Nelson
				Defining national identity as past-oriented
				Resisting redefining history: The glorification of ‘nation-building’
				Resisting rebuilding the nation: Continuity with the past
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	Chapter 8 Experiencing mixed emotions in the museum: Empathy, affect, and memory in visitors’...
		Museums and migration
		Empathy and the museum
		Subjectivity and personalisation as interpretive strategies
		Destination Tyneside
		Methodology
		Responses to the museum’s invitation to empathise
			1. Perspective-taking
			2. Humanising ‘the migrant’; personalising history
			3. Reframing histories
		Emotion and an affective loop
		Revisiting past–present relations
		Nostalgias and mnemonic patterning
		Conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 9 Coming undone: Protocols of emotion in Canadian human rights museology
		Introduction
		Exhibiting human rights in Canada
		The role of relationships
		Guidelines and protocols: Creating a methodology of emotion
		Comfortable with being uncomfortable
		Final thoughts
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 10 Touring the post-conflict city: Negotiating affects during Belfast’s black cab mural tours
		Introduction
		Methodology
		Affective practice and the ‘ordinary flows’ of sectarianism
		The emotional economies of West Belfast
		Problematising the economy: Affective synecdoche and black cab tours
		Conclusion
		Note
		References
	Chapter 11 Performing affection, constructing heritage?: Civil and political mobilisations around...
		Introduction
		The Ottoman past in the Bulgarian present
		Angry nation
		Whose legacy? What heritage?
		Valorisation?
		Conclusion
		Notes
		References
Part III Learning, teaching and engaging
	Chapter 12 Understanding the emotional regimes of reconciliation in engagements with ‘difficult’ heritage
		Introduction
		‘Difficult knowledge’ in heritage and museum visitors’ experiences
		My theoretical approach on emotions
		Contributions from critical history education
		The emotional regimes elicited in reconciliation efforts to deal with difficult heritage
		Concluding remarks
		References
	Chapter 13 Affective practices of learning at the museum: Children’s critical encounters with the past
		Introduction
		On affect and learning as learning to be affected: A practice-oriented perspective
		Data and methods
		Affective practices of learning at the museum: Contemporary engagements with the past
			Case 1. Little Lon: ‘Like [they] shared their stuff because they were really poor’
			Case 2. Tram Scenario: Breaking out in ‘swear’ words
		Conclusions: Affective practice and animate affects
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 14 White guilt and shame: Students’ emotional reactions to digital stories of race...
		Introduction
		The role of emotions in post-conflict classrooms
		White guilt, shame and other reactions to stories of race
		Context and methodology
		Noni’s story – you might get uncomfortable … but will you please listen to me?
		White students’ reactions to Noni’s story
		Conclusions
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 15 Settler–Indigenous relationships and the emotional regime of empathy in Australian history school...
		Introduction
		Political and emotional regimes: Empathy in reconciliatory educational policies
		History textbooks’ emotional emphases
		Engaging with the past in the present through empathy: A plural meaning-making process or a   settler’s fantasy space?
		Final reflections: Beyond empathy?
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 16 ‘Head and heart’ responses to Treaty education in Aotearoa New Zealand: Feeling the timeline of colonisation
		Emotions as affective practices within relationships
			Emotional practices construct and preserve relationships
			Emotional practices guide moral evaluations
		Emotions for colonising and decolonising
		Emotions in Treaty education
			Fear and hostility upon entering the learning process
			Shock and emotion at discovering a hidden history
			Excitement and inspiration about new worldviews
			Empathy and anger about injustice
			Sadness, shame and humility about Pakeha treatment of Maori
			Reflecting on trust, betrayal and restoration in relationships
		‘It is simultaneously head and heart’
			‘Emotional truth’ and significance
			Responsibility or guilt?
			Pakeha/Tauwi identity and belonging
		Conclusions
			Implications for heritage presentations in museum and commemorative settings
		Notes
		References
	Chapter 17 Raw emotion: The Living Memory module at three sites   of practice
		Introduction
		Emotion, narrative and co-produced interpretation
		The Living Memory module
		Living Memory pop-up trials
		Junction Park State School 125th Anniversary Fete
		The Workshops Railway Museum, Ipswich (2010)
		XII Commonwealth Games Local Community Commemoration (2012)
		Trials, tribulations and conclusion
		Acknowledgements
		Notes
		References
Index