Overview

Preservation of natural and cultural heritage is often said to be something that is done for the future, or on behalf of future generations, but the precise relationship of such practices to the future is rarely reflected upon. Heritage Futures draws on research undertaken over four years by an interdisciplinary, international team of sixteen researchers and more than twenty-five partner organizations to explore the role of heritage and heritage-like practices in building future worlds. Engaging broad themes such as diversity, transformation, profusion and uncertainty, Heritage Futures aims to understand how a range of conservation and preservation practices across a number of countries assemble and resource different kinds of futures, and the possibilities that emerge from such collaborative research for alternative approaches to heritage in the Anthropocene. Case studies include the cryopreservation of endangered DNA in frozen zoos, nuclear waste management, seed biobanking, landscape rewilding, social history collecting, space messaging, endangered language documentation, built and natural heritage management, household keeping and discarding practices, and world heritage site management.  

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Author:   Rodney Harrison ,  Jennie Morgan ,  Sefryn Penrose ,  Caitlin DeSilvey
Publisher:   UCL Press
Imprint:   UCL Press
Weight:   1.100kg
ISBN:  

9781787356016

ISBN 10:   1787356019
Pages:   520
Publication Date:   28 July 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"""List of figures Notes on contributors Preface Acknowledgements Part I: Heritage futures 1. ‘For ever, for everyone …’ Rodney Harrison, Caitlin DeSilvey, Cornelius Holtorf and Sharon Macdonald 2. Heritage as future-making practices Rodney Harrison Part II: Diversity 3. Conserving diversity Rodney Harrison, Esther Breithoff and Sefryn Penrose 4. Diverse fields: Ex-situ collecting practices Sefryn Penrose, Rodney Harrison and Esther Breithoff 5. Repositories Sefryn Penrose, Rodney Harrison and Esther Breithoff 6. Banking time: Trading in futures Esther Breithoff and Rodney Harrison 7. Proxies Esther Breithoff 8. Towards the total archive Rodney Harrison and Esther Breithoff Cross-theme knowledge-exchange event 1 9. The hundred-thousand-year question Sefryn Penrose, Rodney Harrison, Cornelius Holtorf and Sarah May Part III Profusion 10. Too many things to keep for the future? Sharon Macdonald, Jennie Morgan and Harald Fredheim 11. Curating museum profusion Harald Fredheim, Sharon Macdonald and Jennie Morgan 12. Let’s talk! Harald Fredheim 13. Curating domestic profusion Jennie Morgan and Sharon Macdonald 14. The Human Bower Jennie Morgan 15. Doomed? Sharon Macdonald, Jennie Morgan and Harald Fredheim Cross-theme knowledge-exchange event 2 16. Collections as techniques of worlding Rodney Harrison and Sefryn Penrose Part IV: Uncertainty 17. Uncertain futures Sarah May and Cornelius Holtorf 18. A shepherd’s futures: Shepherds and World Heritage in the Lake District Sarah May 19. Toxic heritage: Uncertain and unsafe Gustav Wollentz, Sarah May, Cornelius Holtorf and Anders Högberg 20. Micro-messaging/space messaging: A comparative exploration of #GoodbyePhilae and #MessageToVoyager Sarah May 21. The one-million-year time capsule Antony Lyons and Cornelius Holtorf 22. Uncertainty, collaboration and emerging issues Cornelius Holtorf and Sarah May Cross-theme knowledge-exchange event 3 23. Transforming loss Nadia Bartolini and Caitlin DeSilvey Part V Transformation 24. Living with transformation Caitlin DeSilvey, Nadia Bartolini and Antony Lyons 25. Fixing naturecultures: Spatial and temporal strategies for managing heritage transformation and entanglement Nadia Bartolini 26. Sensitive chaos: Geopoetic flows and wildings in the edgelands Antony Lyons 27. Signifying transformation Caitlin DeSilvey, Nadia Bartolini and Antony Lyons 28. Processing change Caitlin DeSilvey, Nadia Bartolini and Antony Lyons Part VI: Future heritages 29. Discussion and conclusions Rodney Harrison, Caitlin DeSilvey, Cornelius Holtorf, Sharon Macdonald, Nadia Bartolini, Esther Breithoff, Harald Fredheim, Antony Lyons, Sarah May, Jennie Morgan and Sefryn Penrose References Index"""

Reviews

'[A book] Likely [to] attract two main groups of readers. One consists of students, researchers, and heritage practitioners looking for inspiration or a gateway to understand current intersections between the fields of (critical) heritage studies and futurology. It will work well for this purpose, as it raises vital questions and points to avenues for collaboration that may help care for the future - not just for the remains of the past in the future. ...A second group would be researchers looking for advice on how to write up a big project. The book represents a successful example of how to weave together a large and highly diverse research programme into a single publication.' Norwegian Archaeological Review 'The book offers is a fresh perspective on heritage studies by turning the debate on its head and flipping the gaze from the past to the future' International Journal of Heritage Studies

Author Information

Rodney Harrison is Professor of Heritage Studies at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. He is author of many some of which have been translated into Chinese, Italian, Polish and Portuguese language versions. His research has been funded by AHRC, UKRI/Global Challenges Research Fund, British Academy, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Australian Research Council, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and the European Commission. He has conducted archaeological, anthropological and/or archival research in Australia, Southeast Asia, North America, South America, the Middle East, UK and continental Europe. Jennie Morgan is Lecturer in Heritage in the Division of History, Heritage and Politics at the University of Stirling. Sefryn Penrose is a consultant researcher and archaeologist of the recent past. Caitlin DeSilvey is Professor of Cultural Geography at the University of Exeter. Cornelius Holtorf is Professor of Archaeology and holds a UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures at Linnaeus University in Kalmar, Sweden. Sharon Macdonald is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Social Anthropology and Director of the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH) in the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Nadia Bartolini is an Associate of the Environment and Sustainability Institute, University of Exeter. Esther Breithoff is Lecturer in Contemporary Archaeology and Heritage in the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London, and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. She joined the department in 2019 after holding postdoctoral positions at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and the UCL Institute of Archaeology. Her research spans the fields of Contemporary Archaeology and Critical Heritage Studies and has ranged across a number of different topics, including war, natural and cultural heritage, nuclear and petroleum industries, dictatorships and biobanking, but traces a common set of interests in the relationships between conflicts, resources, recycling and rights across the human/non-human divide in the Anthropocene. Harald Fredheim is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Museum of London Archaeology and the University of Exeter. Antony Lyons is an independent artist-researcher whose creative methods include film, photography, sonic works and intermedia installation. Sarah May is Senior Lecturer in Public History and Heritage at Swansea University. She has previously worked as Senior Archaeologist for English Heritage and as an independent consultant.

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