Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present

Cover.
Half Title.
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.