“…This stands out to us today, as much research since has moved in the opposite direction: understanding the politics of museums and other tourism/heritage/leisure sites requires an engagement with the affective and emotional aspects of their materiality. In addition to Waterton and Dittmer (2014) cited above, others like Dowler (2013), Lisle (2016) and Miller and Del Casino (2018, 2020) have put forward an approach to the geopolitics of tourism that explores this exact intersection, where the affective and emotional become the prime site of intervention by the state or other political forces (also see Mostafanezhad, 2018; Rowen, 2016).…”