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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Colonial heritage and urban transformation in the global south: excavating the ruins of cape town’s rebirth46
The emotional heritage of psychiatric hospital and asylum cemeteries as constructed in and through academic texts41
Heritage of empty spaces. The case of the tomb of the unknown soldier in Warsaw40
Choice architecture, nudging, and the historic environment: the subtle influences of heritage through the lens of behavioural science33
The contested shift to a bicultural understanding of place heritage in Aotearoa New Zealand28
Learning about conflict: the role of community museums in educating on difficult heritage in a divided society21
Comprehending genius loci, towards spiritual sustainability: lessons from Buddhist heritage city Anuradhapura19
The critical potential of heritage for Indigenous rights in the Anthropocene19
Forensic heritage. A research agenda on the material and expressive processes of the public memorialisation of violence in post-authoritarian contexts18
Working–class heritage and the marketization of difference – the limits of new museology at Manhattan's Tenement Museum15
Exploring the descriptions of World Heritage properties through the perspective of water using a narrative approach14
‘These are large ideals that we hope for’: heritagising the past and present of anti-racist activism in the Black Archives14
Livelihoods as everyday heritage: urban redevelopment, heritage discourses and marketplace trade in Moore Street, Dublin14
Toponymic politics and the role of heritagisation in multiethnic cities in Romania13
Cultural landscapes and the UNESCO World Heritage List: perpetuating European dominance11
Serial properties and heritage interpretation. Lessons from the Israeli Biblical Tels inscription11
Activating refusal: exploring NFTs to disrupt museum ownership11
Management planning for cultural heritage: places and their significance11
Exploring the heritage dimension of vineyard landscapes based on a critical approach to their inscription on the World Heritage List11
Heritagising the South China Sea: appropriation and dispossession of maritime heritage through museums and exhibitions in Southern China10
Heroic landscapes and the linguistic reconstitution of the self10
Digital spectres: the Notre-Dame effect10
The use of heritage in the place-making of a culture and leisure community: Liangzhu Culture Village in Hangzhou, China9
Post-Conflict reconstruction, forced migration & community engagement: the case of Aleppo, Syria9
Storying wild landscapes: Multimodal interactions with digital app-based heritage9
Adopting the ‘historic layering’ concept from the Historic Urban Landscape approach as a methodological framework for urban heritage conservation9
Factors affecting tourists’ emotional reactions during a visit to a dark attraction: a conceptual model9
Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage: Three Case Studies in the Americas9
Decolonizing colonial heritage: New Agendas, actors and practices in and beyond Europe9
Trans-local knowledge and community participation: a study of heritage conservation of Pokfulam Village in Hong Kong8
Protecting Indigenous heritage objects, places, and values: challenges, responses, and responsibilities8
Scientists and remaking heritage: the case of shiitake cultivation in a globally important agricultural heritage system in Japan8
The Mediterranean as sepulcrum nostrum : drowned refugees, commemorative artworks and maritime heritage of the future8
Youth participation in cultural heritage management: a conceptual framework7
New monuments for the new India: heritage-making in a ‘timeless city’7
Critical heritage studies and post-imperial insecurities in central and Baltic Europe7
The cross-sectoral linkage between cultural heritage and security: how cultural heritage has developed as a security issue?7
Implementing the world heritage convention: dimensions of compliance7
Community agency and heritage recovery in climate-vulnerable historic districts: lessons from Riverine Montpelier, Vermont7
Boat dwellers and maritime heritage in Hong Kong: coming ashore to Yue Kwong Chuen (Fishing Lights Estate)7
Visionscapes: combining heritage and urban gardening to enhance areas requiring regeneration7
The migration heritage corridor: transnationalism, modernity and race6
Naming streets – constructing heritage in four Swedish post-asylum landscapes6
The aesthetics and imaginaries of Uyghur heritage, Chinese Tourism, and the Xinjiang dance craze6
The omitted variable: musical bamboos, environmental sustainability, and the ecological implications of an intangible cultural heritage in the Bolivian Andes6
Mnemonic security and post-Soviet aphasia: Soviet monuments in Estonian media after Russian invasion of Ukraine6
Forging connections through food: culinary heritage in shaping relations in post-conflict Bavarian-Czechoslovak borderlands6
Soft and resilient: When embroidery encounters narrating the Nanjing Massacre in the Memorial Hall6
Heritage with cows. Conserving Nordic human and nonhuman animals6
Making Archives in Place : adopting a creative exchange approach in heritage research6
Investigating community support for sustainable tourism development in small heritage sites in Iran: A grounded theory approach6
Against authenticity6
‘The Jewish people in their homeland’: the discursive mechanisms of Israel’s cultural heritage policy5
Revisiting heritage in the ocean: common heritage of [Hu]mankind, maritime heritage and beyond?5
The Werkbund estates in Wrocław and Stuttgart as examples of the tourism use of modernist urban complexes5
Staying local – experiencing local landscapes and the potential of hidden stories5
Spatial dunhuang: experiencing the mogao caves5
Public attitudes towards the display of non-adult mummies in the Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo, Sicily5
An anti-oppressive methodology for more equitable heritage work in the anthropocene: a case study of nature and Barbuda5
Trauma-heritage: towards a trauma-informed understanding of heritage5
Intellectual property as a blind spot in the UNESCO Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage5
Encountering the machinery of bureaucracy - enacting cultural heritage as facts, maps, and mathematics in environmental impact assessments5
Co-creating the future of heritage in-the-making: empirical evidence from community deliberation at Naxos Island, Greece5
The Brutish museums: the Benin Bronzes, colonial violence and cultural restitution4
Lost between legislation and application: a critical reading of Czech post-war architectural conservation policies4
Museums lobbied by local communities: potential and actual place of the people in participatory museums of local history4
Welfare in the museum: a comparative exhibition analysis of the articulation of welfare in Nordic national museums4
Advancing representation in ethnographic archives: examples from the American Folklife Center4
Museums of language and the display of intangible cultural heritage4
Unveiling children’s perceptions of World Heritage Sites: a visual and qualitative approach4
Experts in the world heritage regime: between protection and prestige4
The potential of artistic practice in facilitating the collective narration of historical events4
Collaborative experimentation in the urban process: activism and everyday heritage in Krasnoyarsk (Siberia, Russia)4
Cold War heritage dissonance and disinheritance as a heritage alternative: the case of Soviet military remnants in the Baltic states4
Cultural heritage through the lens of community psychology and narrative therapy: a community project on Chinese and Vietnamese diaspora in London4
Exploring multiple dimensions of attachment to historic urban places, a case study of Edinburgh, Scotland3
History meets the ‘mafia state’? Hungary and the (de)securitisation of built cultural heritage in Slovakia3
Low-cost digital tools to preserve cultural heritage ‘blind spots’: the case of Kubor Kassim in Singapore3
The Vače situla and creation of the Slovenian national identity3
Cultural route heritage as mobility narrative: the world heritage inscription of China’s Grand Canal3
Conceptualisation of heritage diplomacy in scholarship3
Heritage conservation and civilisational competition in the South Caucasus: the Blue Mosque of Yerevan and the Govhar Agha Mosque in Shusha3
Creative heritage: An approach for research and practice integrating heritage and the performing arts3
Object biographies in the digital age: documentation, life-histories, and data3
Translation as a restoration: Turkish translations of the Venice Charter3
Sharing the documentary heritage of humanity: disparities in distribution3
Identity and (dis)owning the past: anthropological insights into heritage preservation and revitalization3
Activism and institutional care: history, heritage and social memory3
Reanimation of abandoned places: three case studies from Czechia3
After the asylum: value, stigma, and strategic forgetting in three historic former asylums3
On the front-line: controlling the illicit cultural heritage trade in Norway3
From nonhuman to postsecular: transformation of the difficult heritage of Soviet repressions in post-Soviet Russia3
Local perspectives on heritage reconstruction after conflict: a public opinion survey of Aleppo3
(Re-)valuing and co-creating cultures of water: a transdisciplinary methodology for weaving a live tapestry of Blue Heritage3
Indigenous-based heritage management of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Rapa Nui and the Indigenous governance of the Rapa Nui National Park2
The 2003 UNESCO intangible heritage convention: a commentary2
Route to nowhere: assessing the failure of the Ave Basin Industrial Heritage Route (Portugal)2
Recent writing on colonial plunder and museums2
Cultural dissonance: heritage protests and their implications for heritage-making in settler colonial cities2
Putting the Illegal into heritage practice2
Seeing the glass half-empty: implications for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage through formal education in Türkiye2
Accepting the decay of plastic artifacts in museums: pasts and futures surfacing in a life preserver from sunken MS Estonia2
Mapping the research on gender, LGBTQI minorities and heritage across social sciences and humanities2
Dialogical heritage practices at Kahalu’u bay and Keauhou, Hawaiʻi island2
Urban textile mills: conservation and conversion2
Alternative gentrification: coexistence of traditional and new industries in historic districts through transfer of development rights in Dihua Street, Taiwan2
Intangible heritage diplomacy and the Taiwan strait: kunqu revival 1987–20012
The Museums and Collections of Higher Education2
Constructing national identity through World Heritage: the international and intranational politics of the built environment in Ahmadabad2
Negotiations of heritage in and around locally protected forests in Inhambane province, southern Mozambique2
The paradoxes of heritage participation2
The role of communities in preserving, using and remembering heritage: archaeological monuments and dark heritage sites in Estonia2
Teardrops at the Taj: wicked problems of World Heritage preservation, pollution and politics2
Understanding the role of local stories in living archaeological heritage sites: the case of Stratonikeia2
Transformative youth development through heritage projects: connecting political, creative, and cultural capabilities2
Plans for Uncertain Futures: Heritage and Climate Imaginaries in Coastal Climate Adaptation2
Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Development and Intellectual Property: International and European Perspectives Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sustainable Deve2
Islam and heritage in Europe: pasts, presents and future possibilities2
Dance improvisation as an embodied encounter with heritage site: a case in the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu2
The politics and ethical dilemmas of architectural conservation in an unrecognised state: insights from northern Cyprus2
Digital Holocaust memory on social media: how Italian Holocaust museums and memorials use digital ecosystems for educational and remembrance practice2
The dataset as Rhizomatic Heritage: Australian rock music, literature and modelling – mapping the scene2
Militancy, dictatorship and sites for representation in Rio de la Plata: Museo de la Memoria and Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada2
Dissecting authorised participation in cultural heritage2
“Handling collections”: potentials, challenges, and ongoing experiments at the Museum of World Culture, Sweden2
Safeguarding traditional theatre amid trauma: career shock among cultural heritage professionals in Cantonese opera2
Heritagization of religious sites: in search of visitor agency and the dialectics underlying heritage planning assemblages2
Dissonance and disobedience in Brazilian quilombola heritages2
A multidimensional framework for assessing cultural heritage vulnerability to flood hazards2
The Aeschylus Museum as a collections-free institution of the Muses: community consultation and values assessment2
Advancing critical heritage studies: the next 10 years2
Fictional and fictionalised religions as heritage? Reflections on the object of critical heritage studies2
Heritage conservation as a territorialised urban strategy: conservative reuse of socialist industrial heritage in China2
Social valuation of protected cultural assets: the railway heritage between Jundiaí and Campinas (Brazil)1
Heritage ecologies1
Integration of cultural heritage in architecture: a national study of Jordanian higher education1
An ideology-critical examination of the cultural heritage policies of the Sweden Democrats1
Introduction: Heritagizing Asian cities: space, memory, and vernacular heritage practices1
Perspectives on social justice among US historic preservation practitioners: roles, actions and organisational responsibilities1
Transforming legacies, habits and futures: reshaping the collection at the Museum of European Cultures1
The political life of post-industrial objects: aesthetic re-signification in the Russophone Estonia1
Taking control of the production of heritage: Country and cultural values in the assessment of Aboriginal cultural heritage significance1
Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage: exploring the synergies in the transmission of Indigenous languages, dance and music practices in Southern Africa1
Heritage as boundary object: the troubling potential of the Secretariat in Yangon, Myanmar1
Biocultural heritage construction and community-based tourism in an important indigenous agricultural heritage system of the southern Andes1
Between objects of science and lived lives. The legal liminality of old human remains in museums and research1
Architecture and friendship among nations: the shifting politics of cultural diplomacy in Tbilisi, Georgia1
Heritage as city vision leverage: the suspended transformation of the railway landscape in Changhua City1
Heritage-making in the capitalocene: deconstructing fishing heritage and regeneration in an English fishing port1
Poly-spatial experiences of the past at European cultural heritage sites1
Mobile media, urban nostalgia and memory politics: media archaeological study of their mutual shaping in Narva, Estonia1
Heritage and religion in East Asia1
Archiving social movement memories amidst autocratization: a case study of Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement Visual Archive1
Walk slowly, listen carefully, tread softly: enhancing participation in architectural conservation practice1
Rethinking heritage in precarious times: coloniality, climate change, and Covid-191
Re-framing authorised heritage discourse (AHD) within a realist explanatory framework: towards a dialectical relationship between discourse and the extra-discursive1
Collective memory and identity of a rebranded ‘Chinatown’1
Colonial statues in post-colonial Africa: a multidimensional heritage1
Experiencing ‘Taiwanese’ nationhood in the ambivalent heritage from the Japanese colonial era1
New approach to cultural heritage: profiling discourse across borders1
“For God and Country”: memory of the 1912 Lawrence textile strike1
Heritageinandasdiplomacy: a practice based study1
Between iconophilia and iconoclasm: advances of conservative memory in Chile1
Why collections matter: impacts of cultural heritage collections on people’s lives1
Disability activism and institutional heritage1
Heritage route as pilgrimage. Visiting the battlefield in Ossów1
Endangered cultural heritage in the Russia–Ukraine war: comparing and critiquing interventions by international cultural heritage organizations1
Recognising menhu as a community within Wushu Intangible Cultural Heritage1
Redress, memorials and activism: can heritage be activism?1
Examining interwoven narratives: multidirectional memory between enslaved labourers and mill workers in Northern England heritage sites1
Virtual repatriation as a methodological reframing for museum learning in the digital age: repositioning, digital transformation, and collaborative meaning-making1
Intangible cultural heritage and tourism in China: a critical approach1
The ecomuseum as a platform for territorial development: the case of Greek ecomuseums1
Theatre heritage in pre-WWII Hong Kong: a postcolonial reading1
Forgotten ‘Bicycle king of the East’: sports hero Um Bok-dong and the formation of sports heritage in South Korea1
50 years World Heritage Convention: shared responsibility – conflict & reconciliation1
Digestible Memories in South Africa’s Recent Past: processing the Slave Lodge Museum and the Memorial to the Enslaved1
The Cold War in European museums – filling the ‘empty battlefield’1
Social Landscape Characterisation: a people-centred, place-based approach to inclusive and transparent heritage and landscape management1
Latte in the Marianas: By the community for the community1
Threat assessments and heritage in the age of hybrid warfare0
Radical hope: re-contextualising oral histories from deindustrialised mining communities0
The use of past events as political symbols in Spain. The example of Vox and the need for a new archaeology of ethnicity0
The Missing Intangible Cultural Heritage in Shanghai Cultural and Creative Industries0
The promises and limitations of digital participation in heritage: Planning transmedia heritage districts in superdiverse cities0
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
The Jewish religious heritage continuum : Jewish religious communities’ interactions with synagogues and ceremonial objects in Amsterdam0
Conserving the other’s heritage within Islamic society0
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
Grassroots values and local cultural heritage in China0
Betwixt and between creativity and heritage: remaking a traditional festival and creating festivals to remake traditions in a historic neighbourhood in Taiwan0
The promises of the bureaucratisation of intangible cultural heritage safeguarding in post-conflict regions: lessons from anthropological fieldwork in four Western Balkan states0
Ghosts of solid air: contested heritage and augmented reality in public space0
Vibing to the furthest past: the utilisation of folklore and mythology in the prehistory exhibition at the National Museum of Finland0
Memorializing forced migration and beyond. Commemorating Salvador Allende in Barcelona as memory-work in the context of civic memory and the politics of belonging0
Memorial choreography and the politics of war commemoration in Thailand0
After the light: the reuse and replica of Canada’s historic lighthouses0
Conservation and development: implementation of the historic urban landscape approach in Khiva, Uzbekistan0
Harnessing cultural heritage for sustainable development: an analysis of three internationally funded projects in MENA Countries0
Inclusive smart museums engaging neurodiverse audiences and enhancing cultural heritage0
Repatriation as ontological conflict: reburying the ancestors in the Atacama Desert0
Heritage through collage: a participatory and creative approach to heritage making0
Heritage, memory and punishment: remembering colonial prisons in East Asia0
Reconceptualising counter-heritage: dynamics of emancipation at KL Plaszow Memorial Museum in Poland0
Set in stone: modern monuments and strategic heritage in Xaltocan, Mexico0
Digital approaches to inclusion and participation in cultural heritage: insights from research and practice in Europe0
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 Century0
The difficult heritage of Sandby borg – exploring memories, ideas and narratives of a 1500 year old massacre0
The industrial heritage of two sacrifice zones and the geopolitics of memory in Northern Chile. The cases of Gatico and Ollagüe0
Heritage ambivalences: the aesthetics of fictionalised pasts in Roca Barea’s Imperiofobia0
Heritage before modernity: the afterlife of a dissolved priory0
‘Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth’0
Great Zimbabwe: reclaiming a ‘confiscated’ past0
Negotiating problematic identities of place within the path-driven elite university: Jefferson, slavery and the University of Virginia0
The ‘national’ imagining of contemporary Taiwan: the representation of cultural heritage from the Japanese colonial era0
The multispecies shipwreck0
Tyrannical participation approaches in China’s regeneration of Urban heritage areas: a case study of baitasi historic district, Beijing0
Cultural heritage and interculturality: a call to action0
Life-sustaining transboundary survival: rethinking Armenian struggles for heritage0
‘In the moment’: Euphoria as a heritage value0
Volunteers and their heritage – a heritage from within0
Contested intangible heritage: equestrian sport and animal welfare in Mexico0
Does copyright understand intangible heritage? The case of flamenco in Spain0
The role of cultural heritage in visitor narratives of peatlands: analysis of online user-generated reviews from three peatland sites in England0
Digital cultural heritage challenges, solutions, and future directions0
A management perspective on threats to Cultural World Heritage Sites0
Exploring the cohesive and social potential of a territorial ecomuseum in eastern sicily0
Heritage, modernity and the Muhajirin in Amman: decolonising urban knowledge in Ras-Al-Ein0
Colonialism as ‘shared history’? Negotiating European colonial heritage in Casablanca and beyond0
The reproduction of imagination: how do non-experiencers remember history?0
Architecture of memorialisation: the Spitfire and the making of a memorial icon0
Heritage and territorial disputes in the Armenia–Azerbaijan conflict: a comparative analysis of the carpet museums of Baku and Shusha0
Introduction: theorising heritage for the seas0
Digital surrogacy: politics and aesthetics in visualising the historical past of a city0
Street art and evental heritage: from failure to discovery0
Battlefields: from event to heritage0
Customary and customised: nation-building at the Hong Kong Palace Museum0
African heritage challenges: communities and sustainable development0
Values in cities: urban heritage in twentieth-century Australia0
Heritage, community participation and the state: case of the Kalbeliya dance of India0
Engaging the everyday: the concept and practice of ‘everyday heritage’0
Decoloniality and critical African heritage studies0
Restitution of cultural property: the rise and fall of a cosmopolitan ideal0
Dynamic heritage as a path to collaborative knowledge production in Tahcabo, Yucatán, Mexico0
The museum sector as an actor in human security0
The Future of the Bamiyan Buddha Statues: Heritage Reconstruction in Theory and Practice0
Embodyingressentimentfulvictimhood: virtual reality re-enactment of the Warsaw uprising in the Second World War Museum in Gdańsk0
Museums, emotions and memory culture: the politics of the past in Turkey0
Culloden Battlefield: the visitor experience in the context of the experience economy model0
Uptown on the upslope? Heritage and gentrification in Chicago’s Sheridan Park0
0.11877012252808