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Heritage Futures: Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices

Harrison, R; DeSilvey, C; Holtorf, C; Macdonald, S; Bartolini, N; Breithoff, E; (2020) Heritage Futures: Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices. [Book]. UCL Press: London, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

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 16 researchers and more than 25 partner organisations 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, domestic keeping and discarding practices, and world heritage site management.

Type: Book
Title: Heritage Futures: Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices
ISBN-13: 978-1-78735-600-9
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.14324/111.9781787356009
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787356009
Language: English
Additional information: Text © Contributors, 2020 Images © Contributors and copyright holders named in captions, 2020 The authors have asserted their rights under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as the authors of this work. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from The British Library.This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International licence (CC BY 4.0). This licence allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Harrison, R. et al. 2020. Heritage Futures: Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices. London: UCL Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.14324/111. 9781787356009 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Any third-party material in this book is published under the book’s Creative Commons licence unless indicated otherwise in the credit line to the material. If you would like to reuse any third-party material not covered by the book’s Creative Commons licence, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder.
Keywords: heritage studies, conservation, preservation, ethnography
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10104405
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