Re-Enacting the Past

What is re-enactment and how does it relate to heritage? As concept and practice, re-enactments encompass a wide range of forms, and present a number of challenges to traditional understandings of heritage, including taken-for-granted assumptions regarding fixity, conservation, originality, ownership and authenticity. Using a variety of international, cross-disciplinary case studies, this volume explores re-enactment as practice, problem, and/or potential, in order to widen the scope of heritage thinking and analysis toward impermanence, performance, flux, innovation and creativity. It was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Heritage Studies.