Thomas Carter is the Heritage and Volunteer Coordinator for the University of Northampton Students' Union. His work focuses on research and engagement projects connected to the restored Grade II listed Midland Railway Engine Shed which is now the Students Union's home.

David C. Harvey is an Associate Professor in Critical Heritage Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark, and an Honorary Professor of Historical and Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter, UK. His work focuses on the geographies of heritage, landscape and commemoration.

Roy Jones is an Emeritus Professor of Geography at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. He is a historical geographer with research interests in heritage, tourism and regional change.

Iain J.M. Robertson is Reader in History at the Centre for History, University of the Highlands and Islands, UK, and an Adjunct Professor of Historical Geography at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. His work focuses on entanglements of heritage and power.

This book investigates the selection process of heritagisation to understand what specific pasts are being selected or rejected for representation, who is selecting them, how and to whom they are being represented and why they are being presented, or dismissed, in the ways that they are.

List of figures; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Bygones, survivals and 'all the old rubbish': curatorial discernment and the failure to create an English folk museum; 3. Disruptive forms, persistent values: negotiating digital heritage and 'The Memory of the World'; 4. 'Tracking' working class heritage; 5. Tempelhof Airport in Berlin: conflicting realms of heritage; 6. Hidden heritage and secret coves: analysing a discourse used to communicate about heritage and reflecting on its ontological politics; 7. A geomorphic paradox: performing histories of change as the land-slips away; 8. Ancestral tourism and heritage work on a Hebridean island; 9. Remembering animals of the past and creating new sculptures of animal relationships with humans; 10. From imperialism to inclusion: the evolving representations of heritage in Kings Park, Perth, Western Australia; 11. Are all forgotten friends worthy of memory? The public history of biotechnology in Canada; 12. The heritage of agricultural innovation and technical change in post-war Britain: heroic narratives, hidden histories and stories from below; 13. Heritage and sustainable development: the case of tobacco agriculture in eastern Taiwan; 14. Afterword; Index