Introduction : heritage, affect and emotion

There has been a shift in the heritage landscape in recent years. It has been a palpable, visceral shift that challenges the format, engagements and paradigms through which we articulate heritage at sites, in scholarship and in practice. Fuelling this shift is a groundswell of research that attends to the value, power and politics of affect and emotion, and shapes heritage landscapes as experienced, as curated and as foundational to our relationship with the past. These sensibilities, evoked and experienced, also co-constitute meaning in memory, identity and heritage, past and present (Crang and Tolia-Kelly, 2010). This edited collection was developed to capture this shift, and it does so by interrogating the very underpinnings of heritage and the moments, engagements and economies that shape and enable its presence in the twenty-first century. Earlier explorations of visual representation in heritage research (see Waterton and Watson, 2010), along with a more recent call to expand the palate of heritage theory (Waterton and Watson, 2013), had already signalled the tum to a consideration of more-than-textual embodied approaches to heritage research. With this volume, we seek to put a little more might behind that tum and propel heritage studies away from simpler 'two-dimensional' textual readings and narrative accounts towards engaging with experience, the sensory realm and the affective materialities and atmospheres of heritage landscapes.