Doing History Work in Contemporary European Heritage Sites: Heritage Tourism and Collective Memory Construction at Waterloo, Belgium KU Leuven
The proposed project is about how the past is presented to the public in everyday practice in a contemporary consumerist-capitalist context. I hope to address this research interest by studying how tour guides at commercialised heritage sites present history to visitors (i.e., history work), how their guiding practices are affected by the agenda to shape a certain understanding of the past—and hence to construct collective memory—while ...