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Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage
  • Language: en

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Part I: Conceptualizing Cultural Memory and Heritage. The interlinkage of cultural memory, heritage and discourses of construction, transformation and destruction -- Part II: Urban Heritage, Development, Transformation and Destruction. Mega-structural violence: considering African literary perspectives on infrastructure, modernity and destruction ; Competing for the past: the London 2012 Olympic Games, archaeology, and the 'wasteland' ; Covert erasure and agents of change in the heritage city ; Heritage, memory and social justice: reclaiming space and identity ; Amnesia by design: building and rebuilding in a Mediterranean small island state ; Vanishing heritage, materialising memory: constr...

Shared Knowledge, Shared Power
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

Shared Knowledge, Shared Power

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-11-20
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  • Publisher: Springer

This volume brings together the experiences and research of heritage practitioners, archaeologists, and educators to explore new and unique approaches to heritage studies. The last several decades have witnessed a rapid increase in the field of cultural heritage studies worldwide. This increase in the number of studies and in interest by the public as well as academics has effected substantial change in the understanding of heritage and approaches to heritage studies. This change has also impacted the perception of communities, how to study and protect the physical residues of heritage, and how to share the knowledge of heritage. It has brought the issue of who has knowledge and how the valu...

Narrating Heritage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 308

Narrating Heritage

Narrating Heritage critically examines the links among heritage, rights and social justice. This book brings important original ethnographic research and unique case studies together in a coherent and cohesive way to examine patterns and differences of approaches to heritage. It exposes discourses of the uses and abuses of heritage, and provides narratives of persistence, demonstrating the importance of heritage in securing human rights and social justice. Drawing on over ten years of research and ethnographic fieldwork based on six complex case studies from Turkey and comparing them with case studies from across the world, the book explores a variety of social, political, cultural and econo...

Narrating Heritage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Narrating Heritage

Narrating Heritage critically examines the links among heritage, rights and social justice. This book brings important original ethnographic research and unique case studies together in a coherent and cohesive way to examine patterns and differences of approaches to heritage. It exposes discourses of the uses and abuses of heritage, and provides narratives of persistence, demonstrating the importance of heritage in securing human rights and social justice. Drawing on over ten years of research and ethnographic fieldwork based on six complex case studies from Turkey and comparing them with case studies from across the world, the book explores a variety of social, political, cultural and econo...

Heritage, Education and Social Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 162

Heritage, Education and Social Justice

This research examines how museums and heritage sites can embrace a social justice approach to tackle inequalities and how they can empower disadvantaged groups to take an equal benefit from cultural resources. This Element argues that heritage institutions can use their collections of material culture more effectively to respond to social issues, and examines how they can promote equal access to resources for all people, regardless of their backgrounds. This research examines heritage and museum practices, ranging from critical and democratic approaches to authoritarian practices to expose the pitfalls and potentials therein. By analysing case studies, examining institutions' current efforts and suggesting opportunities for further development with regard to social justice, this Element argues that heritage sites and museums have great potential to tackle social issues and to create a platform for the equal redistribution of cultural resources, the recognition of diversities and the representation of diverse voices.

Shaky Ground
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 179

Shaky Ground

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-10
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

The recent crisis in the world of antiquities collecting has prompted scholars and the general public to pay more attention than ever before to the archaeological findspots and collecting histories of ancient artworks. This new scrutiny is applied to works currently on the market as well as to those acquired since (and despite) the 1970 UNESCO Convention, which aimed to prevent the trafficking in cultural property. When it comes to famous works that have been in major museums for many generations, however, the matter of their origins is rarely considered. Canonical pieces like the Barberini Togatus or the Fonseca bust of a Flavian lady appear in many scholarly studies and virtually every textbook on Roman art. But we have no more certainty about these works' archaeological contexts than we do about those that surface on the market today. This book argues that the current legal and ethical debates over looting, ownership and cultural property have distracted us from the epistemological problems inherent in all (ostensibly) ancient artworks lacking a known findspot, problems that should be of great concern to those who seek to understand the past through its material remains.

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-02-18
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  • Publisher: UCL Press

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror, sectarian conflict and through capitalist policies. It is within these affected spheres of cultural heritage where groups and communities ascribe values, develop memories, and shape their collective identity.

Bergman's Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1452

Bergman's Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation

Building on the strength of the previous two editions, Bergman's Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation is the third installment of the classic human anatomical reference launched by Dr. Ronald Bergman. With both new and updated entries, and now illustrated in full color, the encyclopedia provides an even more comprehensive reference on human variation for anatomists, anthropologists, physicians, surgeons, medical personnel, and all students of anatomy. Developed by a team of editors with extensive records publishing on both human variation and normal human anatomy, Bergman's Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Human Anatomic Variation is the long awaited update to this classic reference.

Archaeology and Neoliberalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 422

Archaeology and Neoliberalism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-06-05
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  • Publisher: Unknown

This book tries to question the influence of neoliberal politics in the practice of archaeology. Through a series of contributions from all over the world (although focusing in Spain) and covering a wide range of topics, authors will delve into the problems that arise, where do they come from and how to overcome them.

Military Necessity in International Cultural Heritage Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 391

Military Necessity in International Cultural Heritage Law

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-12-13
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Berenika Drazewska’s book offers a comprehensive scholarly analysis of the current meaning of military necessity in the international legal framework for the protection of cultural heritage during armed conflicts.