Dicks, B. (2000). Heritage, place, and community. Cardiff, University of Wales Press.
This book explores the relationship between heritage, place identity and community through the case study of the Rhondda Heritage Park, the only colliery building left in a Welsh valley that once had sixty-six deep mines. The research is based on qualitative interviews, focus groups and audio-visual analysis, and uses narrative and discourse analysis to interpret the qualitative findings. This book examines contradictions in the concept and practice of heritage as a culture-led regeneration strategy through a study of the Rhondda Heritage Park, the only significant public memorial to the history of mining in the Rhondda community. The main aim of the book is to analyse heritage as a political, social and economic resource, as cultural representation, and as a framework for people's historical understanding and memory.