International Journal of Heritage Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Heritage Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Colonial heritage and urban transformation in the global south: excavating the ruins of cape town’s rebirth42
Digestible Memories in South Africa’s Recent Past: processing the Slave Lodge Museum and the Memorial to the Enslaved39
Museums of language and the display of intangible cultural heritage39
Heritage of empty spaces. The case of the tomb of the unknown soldier in Warsaw28
The symbolic violence of heritage consultancy: experiences of heritage consultation processes in Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area, Norfolk Island28
Citizenship, democracy and belonging in suburban Britain: making the local20
The potential of artistic practice in facilitating the collective narration of historical events19
Museum representations of Chinese diasporas: migration histories and the cultural heritage of the homeland18
Navigating an unwanted heritage: displacement, accommodation and effacement in Lublin’s local heritage initiatives17
The Brutish museums: the Benin Bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution15
The Best We Share: Nation and World-making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena14
Seeking a future for the past: space, power, and heritage in a Chinese city14
Advancing representation in ethnographic archives: examples from the American Folklife Center13
Politics of scale: new directions in critical heritage studies Politics of scale: new directions in critical heritage studies , edited11
Heritage tourism: from problems to possibilities11
Radical hope: re-contextualising oral histories from deindustrialised mining communities11
Conflict archaeology, historical memory, and the experience of war: beyond the battlefield11
Digital approaches to inclusion and participation in cultural heritage: insights from research and practice in Europe10
Staying local – experiencing local landscapes and the potential of hidden stories10
Comprehending genius loci, towards spiritual sustainability: lessons from Buddhist heritage city Anuradhapura9
The contested shift to a bicultural understanding of place heritage in Aotearoa New Zealand9
Lost between legislation and application: a critical reading of Czech post-war architectural conservation policies9
Tradition or Modernization? The Dilemma of Chinese Indigenous Communities9
Heritage, modernity and the Muhajirin in Amman: decolonising urban knowledge in Ras-Al-Ein9
Museums lobbied by local communities: potential and actual place of the people in participatory museums of local history8
Cultural heritage management in Africa: the heritage of the colonized8
Popular music as living heritage: theoretical and practical challenges explored through the case of Slovenian folk pop7
Choice architecture, nudging, and the historic environment: the subtle influences of heritage through the lens of behavioural science7
Learning about conflict: the role of community museums in educating on difficult heritage in a divided society7
Reconceptualising counter-heritage: dynamics of emancipation at KL Plaszow Memorial Museum in Poland7
Perspectives on social justice among US historic preservation practitioners: roles, actions and organisational responsibilities7
A management perspective on threats to Cultural World Heritage Sites7
Disability activism and institutional heritage7
Theatre heritage in pre-WWII Hong Kong: a postcolonial reading7
Uptown on the upslope? Heritage and gentrification in Chicago’s Sheridan Park7
Cultural heritage through the lens of community psychology and narrative therapy: a community project on Chinese and Vietnamese diaspora in London6
The role of cultural heritage in visitor narratives of peatlands: analysis of online user-generated reviews from three peatland sites in England6
The ‘preservation by relocation’ of Huizhou vernacular architecture: shifting notions on the authenticity of rural heritage in China6
The emotional heritage of psychiatric hospital and asylum cemeteries as constructed in and through academic texts6
Identity and (dis)owning the past: anthropological insights into heritage preservation and revitalization6
Unveiling children’s perceptions of World Heritage Sites: a visual and qualitative approach6
The political life of post-industrial objects: aesthetic re-signification in the Russophone Estonia6
Benefit or burden? The world heritage listing of libo karst, China6
The Islamic State’s Targeting of Christians and their Heritage: Genocide, Displacement and Reconciliation6
Social Landscape Characterisation: a people-centred, place-based approach to inclusive and transparent heritage and landscape management6
The critical potential of heritage for Indigenous rights in the Anthropocene5
Cold War heritage dissonance and disinheritance as a heritage alternative: the case of Soviet military remnants in the Baltic states5
Carteggio di guerra (1914-1919): Corrado Ricci e la protezione del patrimonio artistico durante la Grande Guerra5
Colonialism as ‘shared history’? Negotiating European colonial heritage in Casablanca and beyond5
(Re-)valuing and co-creating cultures of water: a transdisciplinary methodology for weaving a live tapestry of Blue Heritage5
Sharing time in another present: temporal matters in uses of the High School Songbook5
Intergenerational evolution of intangible cultural heritage through tourism development: perspectives of practitioners in Hangzhou China5
A step back, a leap forward: tradition, heritage, and visions of a new postcolonial self in the Greek Cypriot popular music of the 21 st Century5
Heritage as boundary object: the troubling potential of the Secretariat in Yangon, Myanmar5
Language as an agent of integration: the case study of Romanian immigrants in Belgium5
Maritime China, sea temples, and contested heritage in the Indian Ocean4
Collaborative experimentation in the urban process: activism and everyday heritage in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)4
A cultural approach to preserving squatter settlements: the case of Treasure Hill Village in Taipei4
Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage: exploring the synergies in the transmission of Indigenous languages, dance and music practices in Southern Africa4
‘The spirit will be here, and hopefully the music too’ perceptions of the future of culture and heritage in the context of climate change on Fanø4
Experts in the world heritage regime: between protection and prestige4
Re-interpreting intangible cultural heritage through immersive live performances to enhance memory-based institutions and foster community engagement4
“For God and Country”: memory of the 1912 Lawrence textile strike4
Welfare in the museum: a comparative exhibition analysis of the articulation of welfare in Nordic national museums4
‘These are large ideals that we hope for’: heritagising the past and present of anti-racist activism in the Black Archives4
Sharing the documentary heritage of humanity: disparities in distribution4
Heritage conservation and civilisational competition in the South Caucasus: the Blue Mosque of Yerevan and the Govhar Agha Mosque in Shusha4
Cultural heritage tourism as a catalyst for sustainable development; the case of old Oyo town in Nigeria4
Heritage through collage: a participatory and creative approach to heritage making4
Decolonisation: meaning, sentiments and implications for heritage3
Intangible cultural heritage and tourism in China: a critical approach3
Negotiating race and rights in the museum3
Heritage-making, landscapes, and experiences in tension in the Southern Andes mountains, Argentina3
Digital cultural heritage challenges, solutions, and future directions3
Creating Cultural Heritage for a Better Future. The case of the “District of Mutual Respect” in the Polish city of Wrocław3
How to make ‘new heritage’ in a fragile institutional context: the case of Tzari Mali Grad in Bulgaria as ‘community of patrons’3
Conceptualisation of heritage diplomacy in scholarship3
Translation as a restoration: Turkish translations of the Venice Charter3
New approach to cultural heritage: profiling discourse across borders3
Heritage ambivalences: the aesthetics of fictionalised pasts in Roca Barea’s Imperiofobia3
History meets the ‘mafia state’? Hungary and the (de)securitisation of built cultural heritage in Slovakia3
Negotiating performance between policy and platform — heritage practice of a Chinese craftsperson on Douyin (TikTok)3
Heritage, memory and punishment: remembering colonial prisons in East Asia3
China’s heritage through history: reconfigured pasts3
50 years World Heritage Convention: shared responsibility – conflict & reconciliation3
Memorialising the Holocaust in Human Rights Museums3
Heritage-making in the capitalocene: deconstructing fishing heritage and regeneration in an English fishing port3
Between objects of science and lived lives. The legal liminality of old human remains in museums and research3
Working–class heritage and the marketization of difference – the limits of new museology at Manhattan's Tenement Museum3
Walk slowly, listen carefully, tread softly: enhancing participation in architectural conservation practice2
Object biographies in the digital age: documentation, life-histories, and data2
Low-cost digital tools to preserve cultural heritage ‘blind spots’: the case of Kubor Kassim in Singapore2
On the front-line: controlling the illicit cultural heritage trade in Norway2
Emotional heritage: visitor engagement at museums and heritage sites2
Latte in the Marianas: By the community for the community2
The influence of the cultural capital transformation of Wushu Intangible Cultural Heritage on status acquisition: the case of Sichuan Province2
Re-framing authorised heritage discourse (AHD) within a realist explanatory framework: towards a dialectical relationship between discourse and the extra-discursive2
Closing the cell door: where are the Histories of Care-leavers at the old Melbourne Gaol?2
Pursuing sustainable conservation of Hashima/Gunkanjima Island as an authentic heritage site2
Heritage languages and language as heritage: the language of heritage in Canada and beyond2
Exploring the descriptions of World Heritage properties through the perspective of water using a narrative approach2
Disseminating the living story: promoting youth awareness of Lebanon contested heritage2
Why collections matter: impacts of cultural heritage collections on people’s lives2
Chilonga cultural landscape in the shadow of eviction: living cultural heritage, livelihoods and minority Indigenous people’s rights under threat in Zimbabwe?2
Cultural route heritage as mobility narrative: the world heritage inscription of China’s Grand Canal2
The 2003 UNESCO intangible heritage convention: a commentary2
The Vače situla and creation of the Slovenian national identity2
Management planning for cultural heritage: places and their significance2
Heritage, values and gentrification: the redevelopment of historic areas in China2
Ice-locked huts, snow-buried cairns, and sunken ships:the prevailing discourse on heritage in antarctica2
Livelihoods as everyday heritage: urban redevelopment, heritage discourses and marketplace trade in Moore Street, Dublin2
Creative heritage: An approach for research and practice integrating heritage and the performing arts2
Remembering the red zones: heritage-making in the more-than-human-worlds of modern conflict2
Examining interwoven narratives: multidirectional memory between enslaved labourers and mill workers in Northern England heritage sites2
Heritage, resistance and dissonance: reconstructing Pentridge in a prison tourism theme park2
After the asylum: value, stigma, and strategic forgetting in three historic former asylums2
From nonhuman to postsecular: transformation of the difficult heritage of Soviet repressions in post-Soviet Russia2
Local perspectives on heritage reconstruction after conflict: a public opinion survey of Aleppo2
Digital spectres: the Notre-Dame effect2
Floating sentiments: silence and memory in the encounter between the celebration of Tooro Nagashi and the intangible cultural heritage policy in Brazil2
The potent urban prehistory of an ancient megalith: the Kempock Stone, Gourock, Scotland2
Activism and institutional care: history, heritage and social memory2
Exploring multiple dimensions of attachment to historic urban places, a case study of Edinburgh, Scotland2
Toponymic politics and the role of heritagisation in multiethnic cities in Romania2
Under-utilisation of the World Heritage Cultural Landscape category? A timely question2
An ideology-critical examination of the cultural heritage policies of the Sweden Democrats2
Route to nowhere: assessing the failure of the Ave Basin Industrial Heritage Route (Portugal)1
Instruments of resilience: cultural tourism in Palestinian resistance1
Intangible heritage diplomacy and the Taiwan strait: kunqu revival 1987–20011
Anthracite memories: semantic tagging and coal mining oral histories1
The dissonant heritage: the case of the Soviet memorial in Antakalnis cemetery, Vilnius1
Constructing national identity through World Heritage: the international and intranational politics of the built environment in Ahmadabad1
Heritageinandasdiplomacy: a practice based study1
The Museums and Collections of Higher Education1
Rethinking heritage in precarious times: coloniality, climate change, and Covid-191
Aa Norf’k Wieh : a pacific epistemology for reconceptualising heritage management in Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area, Norfolk Island1
Cultural landscapes and the UNESCO World Heritage List: perpetuating European dominance1
Dilemmas of making and unmaking environmental and cultural heritage in Southern Belize1
Discordant Colonialism: Museums and the Emergence of Indian Independence in the Former Territories of French and Portuguese India1
Digital Holocaust memory on social media: how Italian Holocaust museums and memorials use digital ecosystems for educational and remembrance practice1
The ecomuseum as a platform for territorial development: the case of Greek ecomuseums1
Redress, memorials and activism: can heritage be activism?1
Dynamic heritage as a path to collaborative knowledge production in Tahcabo, Yucatán, Mexico1
Experiencing ‘Taiwanese’ nationhood in the ambivalent heritage from the Japanese colonial era1
Heritage conservation as a territorialised urban strategy: conservative reuse of socialist industrial heritage in China1
‘In the moment’: Euphoria as a heritage value1
Transforming legacies, habits and futures: reshaping the collection at the Museum of European Cultures1
Cultivating ecomuseum practices in China: shifting from objects to users-centred approaches1
Forgotten ‘Bicycle king of the East’: sports hero Um Bok-dong and the formation of sports heritage in South Korea1
Archiving social movement memories amidst autocratization: a case study of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement Visual Archive1
Serial properties and heritage interpretation. Lessons from the Israeli Biblical Tels inscription1
Mad studies as a methodology for critical heritage studies1
What’s in a word? Reflections on, challenges to, and possibilities with the ACHS1
Taking control of the production of heritage: Country and cultural values in the assessment of Aboriginal cultural heritage significance1
Exploring the heritage dimension of vineyard landscapes based on a critical approach to their inscription on the World Heritage List1
Collective memory and identity of a rebranded ‘Chinatown’1
Frontiers of memory in the asia-pacific: difficult heritage and the transnational politics of postcolonial nationalism1
The crowding out of social values: on the reasons why social values so consistently lose out to other values in heritage management1
Culloden Battlefield: the visitor experience in the context of the experience economy model1
Biocultural heritage construction and community-based tourism in an important indigenous agricultural heritage system of the southern Andes1
Integration of cultural heritage in architecture: a national study of Jordanian higher education1
Lived heritage and local cultures: depopulation in Slovakia1
From colonial conquest to climate crisis: reframing French maritime museums1
Heritage sites, value and wellbeing: learning from the COVID-19 pandemic in England1
Virtual repatriation as a methodological reframing for museum learning in the digital age: repositioning, digital transformation, and collaborative meaning-making1
Alternative gentrification: coexistence of traditional and new industries in historic districts through transfer of development rights in Dihua Street, Taiwan1
Indigenous-based heritage management of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Rapa Nui and the Indigenous governance of the Rapa Nui National Park1
Heritagising the South China Sea: appropriation and dispossession of maritime heritage through museums and exhibitions in Southern China1
Accepting the decay of plastic artifacts in museums: pasts and futures surfacing in a life preserver from sunken MS Estonia1
Heroic landscapes and the linguistic reconstitution of the self1
The politics and ethical dilemmas of architectural conservation in an unrecognised state: insights from northern Cyprus1
Dance improvisation as an embodied encounter with heritage site: a case in the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu1
African heritage challenges: communities and sustainable development0
Critical heritage studies and post-imperial insecurities in central and Baltic Europe0
Conserving the other’s heritage within Islamic society0
Populist truth-making: a conceptual approach to populism in the context of European museums0
The difficult heritage of Sandby borg – exploring memories, ideas and narratives of a 1500 year old massacre0
Exploration of the value of Japanese-style gardens in incarceration camps during world war II: the case of the Amache, Colorado, U.S.0
Familiar new histories: promenade theatre and local amateur actors in a creative heritage project0
Heritage imaginaries and imaginaries of heritage: an analytical lens to rethink heritage from ‘alter-native’ ontologies0
Museums, emotions and memory culture: the politics of the past in Turkey0
Exploring the cohesive and social potential of a territorial ecomuseum in eastern sicily0
‘Beneath the storyline’: analysing the role and importance of film in the preservation and development of Scottish heritage sites0
The ‘national’ imagining of contemporary Taiwan: the representation of cultural heritage from the Japanese colonial era0
Mapping the research on gender, LGBTQI minorities and heritage across social sciences and humanities0
Trauma-heritage: towards a trauma-informed understanding of heritage0
Making Archives in Place : adopting a creative exchange approach in heritage research0
Plans for Uncertain Futures: Heritage and Climate Imaginaries in Coastal Climate Adaptation0
New media and cultural heritage politics: the intertwining of official authorised heritage discourse, folk decentralisation, and internet positivity in Chinese women’s scripts0
Set in stone: modern monuments and strategic heritage in Xaltocan, Mexico0
An anti-oppressive methodology for more equitable heritage work in the anthropocene: a case study of nature and Barbuda0
‘The earth doesn’t tell its secrets’ – his father once said0
The Cold War in European museums – filling the ‘empty battlefield’0
Values in cities: urban heritage in twentieth-century Australia0
The Australian orphanage museum: heritage and activism0
The Werkbund estates in Wrocław and Stuttgart as examples of the tourism use of modernist urban complexes0
Teardrops at the Taj: wicked problems of World Heritage preservation, pollution and politics0
‘All the things happening outside of the museum push me back in’: thinking through memory and belonging in Amsterdam’s Tropenmuseum0
Collecting traces of the outside world: an alternative collective memory of the lockdown0
Grassroots values and local cultural heritage in China0
Heritage places as the settings for virtual playgrounds: perceived realism in videogames, as a tool for the re-localisation of physical places0
Reputation laundering and museum collections: patterns, priorities, provenance, and hidden crime0
Dissecting authorised participation in cultural heritage0
Militancy, dictatorship and sites for representation in Rio de la Plata: Museo de la Memoria and Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada0
Heritage before modernity: the afterlife of a dissolved priory0
After the light: the reuse and replica of Canada’s historic lighthouses0
The migration heritage corridor: transnationalism, modernity and race0
“What is our role? Will we be able to work on equal terms?” collaboration and controversies over the renovation of AfricaMuseum (Tervuren)0
Exploring the current meaning of plaster face casts in museums: the case of Lidio Cipriani’s facial masks at the Anthropological Collections of the University of Bologna (Italy)0
Tyrannical participation approaches in China’s regeneration of Urban heritage areas: a case study of baitasi historic district, Beijing0
Threat assessments and heritage in the age of hybrid warfare0
Visionscapes: combining heritage and urban gardening to enhance areas requiring regeneration0
Intellectual property as a blind spot in the UNESCO Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage0
Forging connections through food: culinary heritage in shaping relations in post-conflict Bavarian-Czechoslovak borderlands0
Practice barriers towards intangible heritage within the UK built heritage sector0
High tech or high touch? Heritage encounters and the power of presence0
Cultural dissonance: heritage protests and their implications for heritage-making in settler colonial cities0
The uncomfortable truths of adaptive reuse: faith-to-faith conversion of religious heritage buildings in conflict environments0
Restitution of cultural property: the rise and fall of a cosmopolitan ideal0
Encountering the machinery of bureaucracy - enacting cultural heritage as facts, maps, and mathematics in environmental impact assessments0
Home beyond the house: transformation of life, place, and tradition in rural China0
Showing themselves: Indigenous people, cultural heritage promotion and community development in Northern Argentina0
‘The Jewish people in their homeland’: the discursive mechanisms of Israel’s cultural heritage policy0
The omitted variable: musical bamboos, environmental sustainability, and the ecological implications of an intangible cultural heritage in the Bolivian Andes0
Architecture of memorialisation: the Spitfire and the making of a memorial icon0
Symbolic centres: cultural transfer in the forcibly abandoned Czech borderlands0
The Jewish religious heritage continuum : Jewish religious communities’ interactions with synagogues and ceremonial objects in Amsterdam0
Engaging the everyday: the concept and practice of ‘everyday heritage’0
The intersection of landscape values for tourists and residents in a mining heritage destination: a case study of Jiufen in Taiwan0
Auxiliary collections as active collections: the case of Estonia0
Heritage and territorial disputes in the Armenia–Azerbaijan conflict: a comparative analysis of the carpet museums of Baku and Shusha0
The promises and limitations of digital participation in heritage: Planning transmedia heritage districts in superdiverse cities0
Volunteers and their heritage – a heritage from within0
The Missing Intangible Cultural Heritage in Shanghai Cultural and Creative Industries0
From overlooked objects to digital ‘icons’: evaluating the role of social media in exhibition making and the creation of more participatory and democratic museums0
Worlding a Mbya-Guarani heritage: from dissonant heritage to ontological conflicts0
Between iconophilia and iconoclasm: advances of conservative memory in Chile0
A critical cartography: mapping chapters, networks, and relationships through regional organization0
Intangible cultural heritage as a tool for urban and social regeneration in neighbourhoods. Participatory process to identify and safeguard ICH in the city of Malaga, Spain0
Heterogeneity of residents’ heritage responsibilities in the process of cultural communication: the case of the Genglubu heritage site in Tanmen, China0
Understanding the role of local stories in living archaeological heritage sites: the case of Stratonikeia0
Museumising Bruce Lee in a Hong Kong public museum: (De)political imagination and the culture of disappearance0
The reproduction of imagination: how do non-experiencers remember history?0
Battlefields: from event to heritage0
Labour Heritage Glossary. The Process of Re-contextualizing the Collection of the Museum of Engineering and Technology in Krakow, Poland0
The role of communities in preserving, using and remembering heritage: archaeological monuments and dark heritage sites in Estonia0
Colonial statues in post-colonial Africa: a multidimensional heritage0
Safeguarding traditional theatre amid trauma: career shock among cultural heritage professionals in Cantonese opera0
Street art and evental heritage: from failure to discovery0
Mnemonic security and post-Soviet aphasia: Soviet monuments in Estonian media after Russian invasion of Ukraine0
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