Margaret Gold
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Interests and Expertise:
- Heritage and heritage interpretation
- Culture-based urban regeneration
- Cultural tourism
- Cultural festivals including Cultural Olympiads and European City of Culture.
Research interests/expertise:
Maggie Gold (BA Hons, Dip Urban and Regional Studies, MA Contemporary European Studies, MA Heritage Interpretation) is Senior Lecturer in Arts and Heritage Management. Her research interests focus on heritage and heritage interpretation; culture-based urban regeneration; cultural tourism; cultural festivals including Cultural Olympiads and European City of Culture. She is particularly interested in how cities use cultural events to achieve their social, economic and planning goals.
Publications
Journal articles
(2002) 'Understanding narratives of nationhood: film-makers and Culloden', Journal of Geography, 106, 361-70 (with J.R.Gold)
(2007) Access for all: the rise of the Paralympics within the Olympic movement, Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health, 127 (3) 133-141 (with J.R. Gold)
(2007) "The Graves of the Gallant Highlanders": memory, interpretation and narratives of Culloden, History and Memory 19 (1) 5-38 (with J.R. Gold)
Books
(1995) Imagining Scotland: tradition, representation and promotion in Scottish tourism since 1750, Aldershot: Scolar Press (with J.R Gold).
(2005) Cities of Culture - staging international festivals and the urban agenda 1851-2000 Aldershot: Ashgate (with J.R.Gold)
(2007) Olympic cities: City Agendas, Planning and the World’s Games, 1896-2012 London: Routledge (ed with J.R.Gold)
Book chapters
(2003) 'Representing Culloden: social memory, battlefield heritage and landscapes of regret', in S.P. Hanna and V.J. Del Casino, Jr., eds. Mapping Tourism, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 108-31 (with J.R.Gold)
Conference Papers
Gold M (2003) ‘This is not a museum’: the English church, sacred space and social memory, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans March 2003
Gold M.M. and Revill G.E. (2004) Reviving the panegyris: cities and the staging of the
Olympic arts and cultural festivals 1896 to 2000, 11 th Biannual Conference of the International Planning History Society , Barcelona July 2004.
Gold M.(2005) Narratives of nationhood: the contested landscapes of Culloden, yprus: the Aphrodite Heritage II Conference, Intercollege Nicosia June 2005
Gold M (2006) Re-representing Empire: coming to terms with an imperial past at the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum in Bristol, UK, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 2006
Gold M.M. (2007) The shock of the old: proto-conservation agencies and changing representations of urban heritage in the 1960s, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April 2007
Advisory/Peer Esteem:
(2004) Invited to co-chair workshop ‘Is culture the answer?’ Civic Trust conference All Night Long - the future of the evening economyin England, 23 November 2004
Member of the Church Tourism Steering Group, Diocese of London 2005-2006
