International Journal of Heritage Studies

Article	Citations
Choice architecture, nudging, and the historic environment: the subtle influences of heritage through the lens of behavioural science	52
The critical potential of heritage for Indigenous rights in the Anthropocene	37
Learning about conflict: the role of community museums in educating on difficult heritage in a divided society	34
Forensic heritage. A research agenda on the material and expressive processes of the public memorialisation of violence in post-authoritarian contexts	25
The emotional heritage of psychiatric hospital and asylum cemeteries as constructed in and through academic texts	24
Heritage of empty spaces. The case of the tomb of the unknown soldier in Warsaw	22
Colonial heritage and urban transformation in the global south: excavating the ruins of cape town’s rebirth	21
The contested shift to a bicultural understanding of place heritage in Aotearoa New Zealand	21
Comprehending genius loci, towards spiritual sustainability: lessons from Buddhist heritage city Anuradhapura	20
Exploring the descriptions of World Heritage properties through the perspective of water using a narrative approach	17
‘These are large ideals that we hope for’: heritagising the past and present of anti-racist activism in the Black Archives	17
Methods and ethics of visual ethnography in the production of experiential and participatory films on intangible heritage	15
Toponymic politics and the role of heritagisation in multiethnic cities in Romania	14
Livelihoods as everyday heritage: urban redevelopment, heritage discourses and marketplace trade in Moore Street, Dublin	13
Serial properties and heritage interpretation. Lessons from the Israeli Biblical Tels inscription	12
Activating refusal: exploring NFTs to disrupt museum ownership	12
Can immersive technologies rebuild heritage and sense of place? Examining Virtual Reality’s role in fostering community resilience in post-disaster Italy	12
Trans-local knowledge and community participation: a study of heritage conservation of Pokfulam Village in Hong Kong	11
Exploring the heritage dimension of vineyard landscapes based on a critical approach to their inscription on the World Heritage List	11
Decolonizing colonial heritage: New Agendas, actors and practices in and beyond Europe	11
Management planning for cultural heritage: places and their significance	11
Heritagising the South China Sea: appropriation and dispossession of maritime heritage through museums and exhibitions in Southern China	11
Heroic landscapes and the linguistic reconstitution of the self	11
The Mediterranean as sepulcrum nostrum : drowned refugees, commemorative artworks and maritime heritage of the future	10
Adopting the ‘historic layering’ concept from the Historic Urban Landscape approach as a methodological framework for urban heritage conservation	10

Boat dwellers and maritime heritage in Hong Kong: coming ashore to Yue Kwong Chuen (Fishing Lights Estate)	10
Storying wild landscapes: Multimodal interactions with digital app-based heritage	10
Protecting Indigenous heritage objects, places, and values: challenges, responses, and responsibilities	10
Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage: Three Case Studies in the Americas	10
Factors affecting tourists’ emotional reactions during a visit to a dark attraction: a conceptual model	10
Youth participation in cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework	9
Community agency and heritage recovery in climate-vulnerable historic districts: lessons from Riverine Montpelier, Vermont	9
The use of heritage in the place-making of a culture and leisure community: Liangzhu Culture Village in Hangzhou, China	9
Post-Conflict reconstruction, forced migration & community engagement: the case of Aleppo, Syria	9
The cross-sectoral linkage between cultural heritage and security: how cultural heritage has developed as a security issue?	9
Political reconciliation and emancipatory reinterpretations of Jakarta’s Pancasila Sakti Monument through heritage tourism: an exploratory study	9
Scientists and remaking heritage: the case of shiitake cultivation in a globally important agricultural heritage system in Japan	9
Implementing the world heritage convention: dimensions of compliance	8
Naming streets – constructing heritage in four Swedish post-asylum landscapes	8
Critical heritage studies and post-imperial insecurities in central and Baltic Europe	8
Mnemonic security and post-Soviet aphasia: Soviet monuments in Estonian media after Russian invasion of Ukraine	8
The omitted variable: musical bamboos, environmental sustainability, and the ecological implications of an intangible cultural heritage in the Bolivian Andes	8
Making Archives in Place : adopting a creative exchange approach in heritage research	8
Investigating community support for sustainable tourism development in small heritage sites in Iran: A grounded theory approach	8
Soft and resilient: When embroidery encounters narrating the Nanjing Massacre in the Memorial Hall	7
The migration heritage corridor: transnationalism, modernity and race	7
Heritage is movement: heritage management and research in a diverse and plural world	7
Visionscapes: combining heritage and urban gardening to enhance areas requiring regeneration	7
Heritage with cows. Conserving Nordic human and nonhuman animals	7
Forging connections through food: culinary heritage in shaping relations in post-conflict Bavarian-Czechoslovak borderlands	7
‘The Jewish people in their homeland’: the discursive mechanisms of Israel’s cultural heritage policy	6
Distinct aesthetics of democratic memory: Thailand’s 14th of October 1973 memorial and the Philippines’ Bantayog ng mga Bayani	6
Trauma-heritage: towards a trauma-informed understanding of heritage	6
Australia resistant to World Heritage in Danger listing? Yes, but … a response to James, Hamman, and Hölleland (2025)	6
Against authenticity	6
The evolving house museum: art collectors and their residences, then and now	6
Revisiting heritage in the ocean: common heritage of [Hu]mankind, maritime heritage and beyond?	6
The fear of losing national and institutional face: exploring Australia’s resistance to World Heritage In Danger listing	6
The aesthetics and imaginaries of Uyghur heritage, Chinese Tourism, and the Xinjiang dance craze	6
The Werkbund estates in Wrocław and Stuttgart as examples of the tourism use of modernist urban complexes	6
Public attitudes towards the display of non-adult mummies in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily	6
Co-creating the future of heritage in-the-making: empirical evidence from community deliberation at Naxos Island, Greece	6
Intellectual property as a blind spot in the UNESCO Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage	6
An anti-oppressive methodology for more equitable heritage work in the anthropocene: a case study of nature and Barbuda	6
Spatial dunhuang: experiencing the mogao caves	6
Experts in the world heritage regime: between protection and prestige	5
Lost between legislation and application: a critical reading of Czech post-war architectural conservation policies	5
Heritage conservation and civilisational competition in the South Caucasus: the Blue Mosque of Yerevan and the Govhar Agha Mosque in Shusha	5
Collaborative experimentation in the urban process: activism and everyday heritage in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)	5
Museums of language and the display of intangible cultural heritage	5
Identity and (dis)owning the past: anthropological insights into heritage preservation and revitalization	5
Cold War heritage dissonance and disinheritance as a heritage alternative: the case of Soviet military remnants in the Baltic states	5
Advancing representation in ethnographic archives: examples from the American Folklife Center	5
The potential of artistic practice in facilitating the collective narration of historical events	5
Welfare in the museum: a comparative exhibition analysis of the articulation of welfare in Nordic national museums	5

Staying local – experiencing local landscapes and the potential of hidden stories	5
Museums lobbied by local communities: potential and actual place of the people in participatory museums of local history	5
Sharing the documentary heritage of humanity: disparities in distribution	4
From nonhuman to postsecular: transformation of the difficult heritage of Soviet repressions in post-Soviet Russia	4
Where places of worship have no congregation: heritage restoration in Turkey as public diplomacy	4
Translation as a restoration: Turkish translations of the Venice Charter	4
Cultural route heritage as mobility narrative: the world heritage inscription of China’s Grand Canal	4
(Re-)valuing and co-creating cultures of water: a transdisciplinary methodology for weaving a live tapestry of Blue Heritage	4
Local perspectives on heritage reconstruction after conflict: a public opinion survey of Aleppo	4
After the asylum: value, stigma, and strategic forgetting in three historic former asylums	4
Reanimation of abandoned places: three case studies from Czechia	4
Cultural heritage through the lens of community psychology and narrative therapy: a community project on Chinese and Vietnamese diaspora in London	4
The Vače situla and creation of the Slovenian national identity	4
History meets the ‘mafia state’? Hungary and the (de)securitisation of built cultural heritage in Slovakia	4
Object biographies in the digital age: documentation, life-histories, and data	4
Transformative youth development through heritage projects: connecting political, creative, and cultural capabilities	3
Accepting the decay of plastic artifacts in museums: pasts and futures surfacing in a life preserver from sunken MS Estonia	3
Dance improvisation as an embodied encounter with heritage site: a case in the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu	3
Intangible heritage diplomacy and the Taiwan strait: kunqu revival 1987–2001	3
The Museums and Collections of Higher Education	3
Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Development and Intellectual Property: International and European Perspectives Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Deve	3
Activism and institutional care: history, heritage and social memory	3
Islam and heritage in Europe: pasts, presents and future possibilities	3
Authors’ reply to Peter Bridgewater, ‘Australia resistant to World Heritage in Danger listing? Yes, but … a response to James, Hamman, and Hølleland (2025)’	3
ChatGPT’s interpretation of contested memoryscapes favours the voice of current governments, capitalism and the far-right	3
Negotiations of heritage in and around locally protected forests in Inhambane province, southern Mozambique	3
Alternative gentrification: coexistence of traditional and new industries in historic districts through transfer of development rights in Dihua Street, Taiwan	3
Digital Holocaust memory on social media: how Italian Holocaust museums and memorials use digital ecosystems for educational and remembrance practice	3
Exploring multiple dimensions of attachment to historic urban places, a case study of Edinburgh, Scotland	3
Low-cost digital tools to preserve cultural heritage ‘blind spots’: the case of Kubor Kassim in Singapore	3
The 2003 UNESCO intangible heritage convention: a commentary	3
Recent writing on colonial plunder and museums	3
Urban textile mills: conservation and conversion	3
Heritagization of religious sites: in search of visitor agency and the dialectics underlying heritage planning assemblages	3
On problems of the ‘double standard’ when localising critical heritage studies in China	3
The dataset as Rhizomatic Heritage: Australian rock music, literature and modelling – mapping the scene	3
Route to nowhere: assessing the failure of the Ave Basin Industrial Heritage Route (Portugal)	3
Heritage conservation as a territorialised urban strategy: conservative reuse of socialist industrial heritage in China	3
Indigenous-based heritage management of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Rapa Nui and the Indigenous governance of the Rapa Nui National Park	3
Conceptualisation of heritage diplomacy in scholarship	3
Dialogical heritage practices at Kahalu’u bay and Keauhou, Hawaiʻi island	3
Advancing critical heritage studies: the next 10 years	3
A multidimensional framework for assessing cultural heritage vulnerability to flood hazards	3
Empowering the community through cultural heritage in a marginalised locality: the case of Hrušov, Slovakia	3
“Handling collections”: potentials, challenges, and ongoing experiments at the Museum of World Culture, Sweden	3
Islam exhibited: In pursuit of representation in pluralistic societies	2
The role of communities in preserving, using and remembering heritage: archaeological monuments and dark heritage sites in Estonia	2
Safeguarding traditional theatre amid trauma: career shock among cultural heritage professionals in Cantonese opera	2
The Aeschylus Museum as a collections-free institution of the Muses: community consultation and values assessment	2
Dissonance and disobedience in Brazilian quilombola heritages	2
Putting the Illegal into heritage practice	2
Participation and the Post-Museum	2
Maboo Liyan Boorroo – Good Spirit Country: using participatory research frameworks to manage Indigenous cultural landscapes in a time of environmental and political uncertainty	2
Theatre heritage in pre-WWII Hong Kong: a postcolonial reading	2
Heritage as city vision leverage: the suspended transformation of the railway landscape in Changhua City	2
Between iconophilia and iconoclasm: advances of conservative memory in Chile	2
Cultural dissonance: heritage protests and their implications for heritage-making in settler colonial cities	2
Heritage without community: rethinking conservation through relational infrastructure in post-Confucian Vietnam	2
Understanding the role of local stories in living archaeological heritage sites: the case of Stratonikeia	2
Militancy, dictatorship and sites for representation in Rio de la Plata: Museo de la Memoria and Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada	2
Dissecting authorised participation in cultural heritage	2
Plans for Uncertain Futures: Heritage and Climate Imaginaries in Coastal Climate Adaptation	2
Making a white city: race, space, and heritage in the production of the historic centre of Cartagena in the twentieth century	2
Perspectives on social justice among US historic preservation practitioners: roles, actions and organisational responsibilities	2
Colonial statues in post-colonial Africa: a multidimensional heritage	2
Contextualising digital cultural heritage: Bininj GIS and 3D modelling for conservation at Ubirr rock art complex, Kakadu National Park, Australia	2
Mapping the research on gender, LGBTQI minorities and heritage across social sciences and humanities	2
The paradoxes of heritage participation	2
Seeing the glass half-empty: implications for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage through formal education in Türkiye	2
Fictional and fictionalised religions as heritage? Reflections on the object of critical heritage studies	2
Teardrops at the Taj: wicked problems of World Heritage preservation, pollution and politics	2
“For God and Country”: memory of the 1912 Lawrence textile strike	2
Disability activism and institutional heritage	2
The political life of post-industrial objects: aesthetic re-signification in the Russophone Estonia	2
The Mediterranean moment of Namibian rock art, or the legitimisation of colonial presence through heritage-making (1948–1954)	2
Contesting urban monuments: future directions for the controversial monumental landscapes of civic grandeur	1
Archiving social movement memories amidst autocratization: a case study of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement Visual Archive	1
Citizenship, democracy and belonging in suburban Britain: making the local	1
Biocultural heritage construction and community-based tourism in an important indigenous agricultural heritage system of the southern Andes	1
Integration of cultural heritage in architecture: a national study of Jordanian higher education	1

Humour as cultural heritage	1
Poly-spatial experiences of the past at European cultural heritage sites	1
Soviet music heritage as a discursive middle ground in Belarusian political conflict	1
Between objects of science and lived lives. The legal liminality of old human remains in museums and research	1
“What is our role? Will we be able to work on equal terms?” collaboration and controversies over the renovation of AfricaMuseum (Tervuren)	1
Examining interwoven narratives: multidirectional memory between enslaved labourers and mill workers in Northern England heritage sites	1
The ambivalence of cultural heritage policies: creative cities and gentrification in Florence	1
Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage: exploring the synergies in the transmission of Indigenous languages, dance and music practices in Southern Africa	1
Heritage imaginaries and imaginaries of heritage: an analytical lens to rethink heritage from ‘alter-native’ ontologies	1
Re-framing authorised heritage discourse (AHD) within a realist explanatory framework: towards a dialectical relationship between discourse and the extra-discursive	1
Heritage route as pilgrimage. Visiting the battlefield in Ossów	1
Mobile media, urban nostalgia and memory politics: media archaeological study of their mutual shaping in Narva, Estonia	1
Researching heritage values in social media environments: understanding variabilities and (in)visibilities	1
Transforming legacies, habits and futures: reshaping the collection at the Museum of European Cultures	1
The uncomfortable truths of adaptive reuse: faith-to-faith conversion of religious heritage buildings in conflict environments	1
Social valuation of protected cultural assets: the railway heritage between Jundiaí and Campinas (Brazil)	1
Redress, memorials and activism: can heritage be activism?	1
Endangered cultural heritage in the Russia–Ukraine war: comparing and critiquing interventions by international cultural heritage organizations	1
Collective memory and identity of a rebranded ‘Chinatown’	1
Emerging Technologies and Museums: Mediating Difficult Heritage	1
Cultural heritage conservation and the colonial past in Tanzania: collaborative approaches towards German colonial administrative buildings and military stations (Bomas)	1
Virtual repatriation as a methodological reframing for museum learning in the digital age: repositioning, digital transformation, and collaborative meaning-making	1
An ideology-critical examination of the cultural heritage policies of the Sweden Democrats	1
New approach to cultural heritage: profiling discourse across borders	1
Reconceptualising continuity in living heritage: the case of gers and their diverse communities	1
Walk slowly, listen carefully, tread softly: enhancing participation in architectural conservation practice	1
From overlooked objects to digital ‘icons’: evaluating the role of social media in exhibition making and the creation of more participatory and democratic museums	1
50 years World Heritage Convention: shared responsibility – conflict & reconciliation	1
Populist truth-making: a conceptual approach to populism in the context of European museums	1
Heritage as boundary object: the troubling potential of the Secretariat in Yangon, Myanmar	1
Illustration and Heritage	1
Recognising menhu as a community within Wushu Intangible Cultural Heritage	1
Heritage ecologies	1
Centre or periphery? Women in implementing the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention in South Korea	1
Places of recreation, places of memory: tourism in the heritagisation of LGBT+ identities	1
Latte in the Marianas: By the community for the community	1
Stakeholder perspectives on the World Heritage and development in Africa	1
Forgotten ‘Bicycle king of the East’: sports hero Um Bok-dong and the formation of sports heritage in South Korea	1
Building a Common Past: World Heritage in Russia under Transformation 1965-2000	1
Heritageinandasdiplomacy: a practice based study	1
Experiencing ‘Taiwanese’ nationhood in the ambivalent heritage from the Japanese colonial era	1
The Algorithmically Authorised Heritage Discourse: how Big Tech ‘uses of heritage’ help to build Big Tech power	1
Heritage-making in the capitalocene: deconstructing fishing heritage and regeneration in an English fishing port	1
Of tuna, godzilla, and the Daigo Fukuryu Maru (Lucky Dragon # 5): nuclear entanglements, a ‘way-sign to peace’, and shifting heritage engagements	1
Intangible cultural heritage and tourism in China: a critical approach	1
A maritime turn and ocean ontologies in critical heritage studies	1
Why collections matter: impacts of cultural heritage collections on people’s lives	1
Familiar new histories: promenade theatre and local amateur actors in a creative heritage project	1
Social Landscape Characterisation: a people-centred, place-based approach to inclusive and transparent heritage and landscape management	1
The Australian orphanage museum: heritage and activism	1
Heritage and religion in East Asia	1
Exploration of the value of Japanese-style gardens in incarceration camps during world war II: the case of the Amache, Colorado, U.S.	1
Who cares for heritage? A feminist critique centred on care work in heritage regimes	1
Postcolonial communities at the intersection of heritage-making and security-making	1
The ecomuseum as a platform for territorial development: the case of Greek ecomuseums	1
Putting the ‘critical’ in heritage studies from non-Anglophone regions: China and beyond	1
The role of conservation policies in local understandings of heritage in living heritage places: a Greek testimony	1
Rethinking heritage in precarious times: coloniality, climate change, and Covid-19	1