Doctor Emma Waterton

Doctor Emma Waterton

SENIOR LECTURER, TOURISM & HERITAGE STUDIES,
Institute for Culture & Society

SENIOR LECTURER,
Heritage and Tourism (SoSSP)

Personal

Qualifications

  • PhD University of York (UK)

UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)

  • Institute for Culture & Society
  • Heritage and Tourism (SoSSP)

Contact

Email:E.Waterton@uws.edu.au
Extension:2056
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Location:P.G.20
Penrith (Kingswood)
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Biography

Emma Waterton is a Lecturer in Social Science and works in the area of Heritage Studies. Before taking up her post at UWS in 2010, she held an RCUK Academic Fellowship in the areas of History and Heritage at Keele University. Her research interests emphasize community heritage, representations of the past and the critical analysis public policy, especially those tackling social inclusion, multiculturalism and expressions of national identity. Together, these interests challenge the dominant conceptualizations of heritage found in policy, which tend to privilege the cultural symbols of a particular social group. In particular, her work attempts to illustrate how and why, despite attempts to mitigate instances of exclusion, recent policies continue to lean towards the predictable melding of cultural diversity with tendencies of assimilation. She is currently assistant editor of the International Journal of Heritage Studies.

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Publications

Books

  • Waterton, E. (2010), 'Politics, Policy and the Discourses of Heritage in Britain', : Palgrave Macmillan 9780230581883.
  • Smith, L. and Waterton, E. (2009), 'Heritage, Communities and Archaeology', : Duckworth Publishing 9780715636817.

Chapters in Books

  • Waterton, E. (2013), 'Heritage tourism and its representations', Heritage and Tourism: Place, Encounter, Engagement, Routledge 9780415532655.
  • Waterton, E. (2013), 'Landscape and non-representational theories', The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies, Routledge 0415684609.
  • Thompson, I., Howard, P. and Waterton, E. (2013), 'Introduction', The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies, Routledge 0415684609.
  • Waterton, E., Smith, L. and Waterton, E. (2012), 'Contrained by Commonsense: The Authorized Heritage Discourse in Contemporary Debates', The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology, Oxford University Press 9780199237821.
  • Waterton, E., Smith, L. and Waterton, E. (2012), 'Contrained by Commonsense: The Authorized Heritage Discourse in Contemporary Debates', The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology, Oxford University Press 9780199237821.
  • Waterton, E. and Watson, S. (2012), 'Shades of the Caliphate: The cultural momenet in southern Spain', The Cultural Moment in Tourism, Routledge 9780414611152.
  • Waterton, E. (2012), 'Landscape and non-representational theories', The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies, Routledge 0415684609.
  • Waterton, E. (2012), 'Introduction', The Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies, Routledge 0415684609.
  • Watson, S., Waterton, E. and Smith, L. (2012), 'Moments, instances and experiences', The Cultural Moment in Tourism, Routledge 9780415611152.
  • Waterton, E. and Watson, S. (2012), 'Shades of the Caliphate : the cultural moment in southern Spain', The Cultural Moment in Tourism, Routledge 9780415611152.
  • Smith, L. and Waterton, E. (2012), 'Constrained by commonsense : the authorized heritage discourse in contemporary debates', The Oxford Handbook of Public Archaeology, Oxford University Press 9780199237821.
  • Waterton, E. (2011), 'The Burden of Knowing Versus the Privilege of Unknowing', Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums, Routledge 9780415885041.
  • Waterton, E. (2010), 'Branding the Past: The visual imagery of England's Heritage', Culture, Heritage and Representation: Perspectives on Visuality and the Past, Ashgate 9780754675983.
  • Waterton, E. and Watson, S. (2010), 'Introduction: Heritage and Community Engagement - Finding a new agenda', Heritage and Community Engagement: Collaboration or Contestation?, Routledge 9780415583626.
  • Waterton, E. and Smith, L. (2010), 'The recognition and misrecognition of community heritage', Heritage and Community Engagement: Collaboration or Contestation?, Routledge 9780415583626.
  • Watson, S. and Waterton, E. (2010), 'Introduction: A Visual Heritage', Culture, Heritage and Representations: Perspectives on Visuality and the Past, Ashgate Publishers 9780754675983.
  • Smith, L. and Waterton, E. (2009), ''The envy of the world?': intangible heritage in England', Intangible Heritage, Routledge 9780415473965.
  • Waterton, E. and Smith, L. (2009), 'There is No Such Thing as Heritage', Taking Archaeology Out of Heritage, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 9781443814423.
  • Waterton, E. and Smith, L. (2009), 'Introduction: Heritage and Archaeology', Taking archaeology out of heritage, Cambridge Scholars Press 9781443814423.
  • Waterton, E. (2008), 'Declining Communities', An Archaeology of Destruction, Cambridge Scholars Publishing 1847186246.
  • Waterton, E. (2007), 'Heritage as Discourse: An Institutionalised Construction of the Past in the UK', Which Past, Whose Future? Treatments of the Past at the Start of the 21st Century, British Archaeological Reports 9781407300474.

Journal Articles

  • Waterton, E. (2011), 'In the spirit of self-mockery? Labour heritage and identity in the Potteries', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 20.
  • Smith, L. and Waterton, E. (2011), 'Heritage and the Politics of Exclusion', Current Swedish Archaeology, 6.
  • Waterton, E. and Smith, L. (2010), 'The recognition and misrecognition of community heritage', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 12.
  • Waterton, E., Smith, L., Wilson, R. and Fouseki, K. (2010), 'Forgetting to Heal: Remembering the abolition act of 1807', European Journal of English Studies, 14.
  • Waterton, E. (2010), 'Humiliated silence: multiculturalism, blame and the trope of 'moving on'', Museum and Society, 30.
  • Watson, S. and Waterton, E. (2010), 'Reading the visual: Representation and narrative in the construction of heritage', Material culture review, 14.
  • Watson, S. and Waterton, E. (2010), 'Heritage and Community Engagement', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 3.
  • Waterton, E. (2010), 'The advent of digital technologies and the idea of community', Museum Management and Curatorship, 7.
  • Waterton, E. and Wilson, R. (2009), 'Talking the Talk: Policy, Popular and Media Responses to the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade using the 'Abolition Discourse'', Discourse & Society, 19.
  • Waterton, E. (2009), 'Journal of Heritage Tourism', Sights of sites: picturing heritage, power and exclusion, 20.
  • Waterton, E. (2006), 'The Meaning of 'Heritage': Mapping Discursive Perspectives with Q Methodology', Operant Subjectivity, 44.
  • Waterton, E., Smith, L. and Campbell, G. (2006), 'The Utility of Discourse Analysis to Heritage Studies: The Burra Charter and Social Inclusion', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 17.
  • Waterton, E. (2005), 'Whose Sense of Place? Reconciling Archaeological Perspectives with Community Values: Cultural Landscapes in England', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 17.

Research

Heritage Studies; Heritage Tourism; Cultural Policy.

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Current Projects

Title:Photos of the past: the negotiation of identity and belonging at Australian tourism sites
Years:2012-04-01 - 2015-03-31
ID:P00020322
UWS Researchers:Emma Waterton
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
  • Australian Research Council (ACRG)

Previous Projects

Title:Everyday geopolitics: Nationalist subjectivities and ANZAC thanatourism
Years:2011-11-09 - 2012-11-08
ID:P00020508
UWS Researchers:Emma Waterton
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney
Title: Representation and Subjectivity:Heritage Tourism at Hiroshima
Years:2010-11-02 - 2013-02-28
ID:P00019261
UWS Researchers:Emma Waterton and Robyn Bushell
Funding:
  • University of Western Sydney

Supervision

Current Supervision

Title:An Exploration of the Relationship Between Art Making and Therapeutic Relationship Within a Semi-Structural Approach Art Therapy with Traumatized Children
Field of Research:
Title:Sojourning Wives: Feminising Chinese Migrant Experience in White Australia
Field of Research:
Title:Globalizing Conservation
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