Encounters with Popular Pasts

Chapter 1: Mass, Modern and Mine: Heritage and Popular Culture Mike Robinson and Helaine Silverman.- Chapter 2: When Popular Religion Becomes Elite Heritage: Tensions and Transformations at the Shrine of St. Padre Pio of Pietrelcina Michael A. Di Giovine.- Chapter 3: Experiencing Intangible Heritage on the Byway: The Mississippi Blues Trail and the Virginia Crooked Road Paul Hardin Kapp.- Chapter 4: Material Falsehoods: Living a Lie at This Old Fort Robert Pahre.- Chapter 5: Women, Tourism, and the Visual Narrative of Interwar Tourism in the American Southwest Joy Sperling.- Chapter 6: Deploying Heritage to Solve Today's Dilemmas: The Swedes of Rockford, Illinois Lynne M. Dearborn.- Chapter 7: From Co-op to Conglomerate: Quality Courts, World War II, and the Commodification of Travel John Presley.- Chapter 8: Branding Peru: Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture in the Marketing Strategy of PromPerú Helaine Silverman.- Chapter 9: Parodying Heritage Tourism Richard W. Hallett.- Chapter 10: Contemporizing Kensington: Popular Culture and the "Enchanted Palace" Exhibit Caitlin Carson, Julian Hartman, Cele Otnes and Pauline Maclaran.- Chapter 11: Collecting London 2012: Exploring the Unofficial Legacy of the Olympic Games Anna Woodham.- Chapter 12: "Democratizing" and : The from Urbana, Illinois Noah Lenstra.- Chapter 13: Uneasy Heritage: Remembering Everyday Life in Post-Socialist Memorials and Museums Sara Jones.- Chapter 14: Trees as Re-appropriated Heritage in Popular Cultures of Memorialization: The Rhetoric of Resilient (Human)Nature  Joy Sather-Wagstaff.

Mike Robinson

Professor Mike Robinson holds the Chair of Cultural Heritage at the University of Birmingham, UK and is Director of the Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage. He was previously Professor of Tourism and Culture at Leeds Metropolitan University and founder and Director of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change. Mike also is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (Routledge/Taylor Francis) and founder and Editor of the Tourism and Cultural Change book series published by Channel View Press.

Over the past twenty-plus years Mike's work has focused on the inter-relations between heritage, tourism and culture. He has published numerous books, articles and chapters on the various ways in which these realms intersect. Recent books include Emotion in Motion: Tourism, Affect and Transformation (Ashgate, 2012), The Framed World: Tourists, Tourism and Photography (Ashgate, 2009) and World Heritage and Tourism (University of Laval Press, 2011). He is the co-editor (with Tazim Jamal) and a contributor to the SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies (2012). Mike was commissioned by UNESCO to research and write a major report on Tourism, Culture and Sustainable Development (co-edited with David Picard) and also was later commissioned to write on tourism and representation for the UNESCO 2009 World Diversity Report.

"These essays express the multiple meanings that are made through popular culture, and weigh carefully the way in which the popular tends to spin through webs of capital. ... This collection ... valuable to specialists, is also particularly useful for those looking for an introduction to this particular field, and likewise is well suited for adaptation in undergraduate courses. With its mix of the particular and the general, Encounters with Popular Pasts is a welcome addition to the ongoing conversation." (Malgorzata J. Rymsza-Pawlowska, Museum Anthropology Review, Vol. 10 (2), 2016)