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Faculty Member, Institute for Culture and Society
Lecturer, Heritage and Tourism
College of Arts/Centre for Cultural Research
About
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 of 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 author of 'Politics, Policy and the Discourses of Heritage in Britain' (Palgrave, 2010) and co-author (with Laurajane Smith) of 'Heritage, Communities and Archaeology' (Duckworth, 2009). She is currently assistant editor of the International Journal of Heritage Studies and on the Editorial Board for the Journal of Heritage Tourism.
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