Journal of Canadian Studies • Revue d’études canadiennes Is Canadian Heritage Studies Critical? MARINA LA SALLE and RICHARD M. HUTCHINGS Diverse Spaces: Identity, Heritage and Community in Canadian Public Culture. Edited by Susan L.T. Ashley. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2013. Museums and the Past: Constructing Historical Consciousness. Edited by Viviane Gosselin and Phaedra Livingstone. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2016. Material Cultures in Canada. Edited by Thomas Allen and Jennifer Blair. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015. The Canadian Oral History Reader. Edited by Kristina R. Llewellyn, Alexander Freund, and Nolan Reilly. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015. In this review, we use recent publications in the ield of Canadian heritage studies to consider the roles of critical theory generally and critical heritage studies in particular. In fall 2016, the editors of the present special issue on critical heritage studies in Canada, Susan Ashley and Andrea Terry, called out to the heritage community to help compile a list of books for this review essay. In total, the list contained 14 texts: Allen and Blair (2015), Ashley (2013), Butler and Lehrer (2016), Gordon (2016), Gosselin and Livingstone (2016), Llewellyn, Freund, and Reilly (2015), McTavish (2013), Morgan (2016), Morton (2016), Neatby and Hodgins (2012), Onciul (2015), Phillips (2011), Terry (2015), and Gordon-Walker (2016). Of the 14 books on the list, 7 (50%) concerned museums, 6 (43%) had the term “museum” in the title, 2 (14%) focused on Indigenous heritage in the context of museums, and 1 (7%) contained the word “tourism” in the title. Of the 14, 9 (64%) had either “Canada” or “Canadian” in the title, and 12 (86%) were published in Can- ada. Of those 12, 5 (42%) were published by McGill-Queen’s University Press, 3 (25%) by University of British Columbia Press, and 3 (25%) by University of Toronto Press. To reduce the number of books to a manageable size (i.e., the 4 texts reviewed here), we irst set an arbitrary three-year cut-of date of 2013, which dropped the list to 11. To ensure maximum representation, we then decided to select only edited books, reducing the number to 5. We further limited our selection by choosing only Volume 52 • Number 1 • Winter 2018 | Volume 52 • numéro 1 • hiver 2018 342