Construed Heritage - Narratives and Collectable Experiences

In Construed Heritage, Jennifer Goddard examines heritage through a construal lens and emphasizes cognitive distance as a potential tool for evaluating heritage experiences. Goddard argues that memory consumes and retains heritage experiences as cognitive objects that are collected and curated into personal narratives.

List of contents

Introduction
Section I: Subjective Narratives and Objectified Experience
Chapter 1: Palomar's Gaze: Subjective Positioning
Chapter 2: Narrative Theory: Between Representation and Affect
Section II: Construal Distance
Chapter 3: Relationships of Distance: Construal
Chapter 4: Construal and Subjective Gazing
Chapter 5: Construed Narrative Positions: Interpretation and Visitation
Section III: Collectable Experiences
Chapter 6: Collecting Overview
Chapter 7: Collecting Attributes and Experience Parallels
Section IV: Cognitive Museums
Chapter 8: Motivation and Narrative Goals
Chapter 9: Autobiographical Reasoning
Section V: Forces of Abstraction and Distance
Chapter 10: Loss Aversion: Valence and Possession
Chapter 11: Self-Narrative Themes and Plotlines
Section VI: Anticipating Narratives: Applicable Heritage
Chapter 12: Interpretive Considerations
Conclusion: Construed Heritage Experiences

About the author

Jennifer Goddard is research scholar at the Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Goddard, Goddard Jennifer, Goddard Jennifer Goddard
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781793615657
• ISBN: 978-1-79361-565-7
• No. of pages: 202
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, Society and culture: general, Heritage Management