TY - JOUR
AU - Timoney, Steven
PY - 2024
DA - February
TI - Staying local – experiencing local landscapes and the potential of hidden stories
JO - International Journal of Heritage Studies
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2024.2320338
AB - This article considers some of the opportunities increased visitation to recreational areas presents in terms of engaging residents and visitors with local heritage in the form of Historic Environment Records (HERs). There are countless potential ‘hidden stories’ related to cultural heritage sites and artefacts within palimpsest landscapes. These sites and artefacts present opportunities for alternative narratives of place to be negotiated, creating links to the past in the present, and between the exotic and the familiar. The changing approach to landscape practices resulting from COVID-19 restrictions presents new opportunities to engage people with these hidden stories, linking places near with far-off lands across time and space. It also encourages new connections with place that have the potential to (co-)create new narratives; increasing engagement, as well as correlating with pressing issues centred around the climate crisis and the urgent need to reduce travel to achieve Net Zero targets.
PB - Taylor and Francis
UR - https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/en/publications/359fc13d-4f05-4c91-86dc-25565ba56da1
KW - Coronavirus (COVID-19)
KW - Diet, healthy weight and physical activity
KW - Environment, community and place
ER