Affective Geographies of Transformation, Exploration and Adventure
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This book seeks to curate the experiences of frontiers as spaces of transformation, exploration and adventure. It reflects on the nature, form and experience of frontiers in terms of individual engagements, cultural encounters, extreme or challenging experiences, danger and risk. It considers the frontier an experience where meaning is constituted

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This book seeks to curate the experiences of frontiers as spaces of transformation, exploration and adventure. It reflects on the nature, form and experience of frontiers in terms of individual engagements, cultural encounters, extreme or challenging experiences, danger and risk. It considers the frontier an experience where meaning is constituted
Autorenporträt
Hayley Saul is a lecturer at Western Sydney University, Australia, and Director of the Himalayan Exploration and Archaeological Research Team (HEART) research group. Following her Ph.D. at the University of York she undertook AHRC-funded post-doctoral research with the Early Pottery in East Asia project and was a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science post-doctoral fellow on the Japanese Archaeo-Ceramic Residue Research Strategy (JARRS) project. Her current research project, the Chaturale Museum of Cuisine, with a Nepalese community on the outskirts of Kathmandu, draws together her interests in culinary heritage and Nepalese archaeology. Emma Waterton is Associate Professor in the Geographies of Heritage at Western Sydney University, Australia. She was a Research Councils UK (RCUK) Academic Fellow at Keele University from 2006-2010 and a DECRA Fellow at WSU from 2012-2016. Her research explores the interface between heritage, identity, memory and affect in both Australian and international contexts. She has published nineteen books, including the monographs Politics, Policy and the Discourses of Heritage in Britain (2010), Heritage, Communities and Archaeology (co-authored with Laurajane Smith; 2009) and The Semiotics of Heritage Tourism (co-authored with Steve Watson; 2014).