Harrison, Rodney and Dias, Nélia and Kristiansen, Kristian (Eds).
(2023)
Critical Heritage Studies and the Futures of Europe.
UCL Press: London.
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Abstract
Cultural and natural heritage are central to ‘Europe’ and ‘the European project’. They were bound up in the emergence of nation-states in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, where they were used to justify differences over which border conflicts were fought. Later, the idea of a ‘common European heritage’ provided a rationale for the development of the European Union. Now, the emergence of ‘new’ populist nationalisms shows how the imagined past continues to play a role in cultural and social governance, while a series of interlinked social and ecological crises are changing the ways that heritage operates. New discourses and ontologies are emerging to reconfigure heritage for the circumstances of the present and the uncertainties of the future. Taking the current role of heritage in Europe as its starting point, Critical Heritage Studies and the Futures of Europe presents a number of case studies that explore key themes in this transformation. Contributors draw on a range of disciplinary perspectives to consider, variously, the role of heritage and museums in the migration and climate ‘emergencies’; approaches to urban heritage conservation and practices of curating cities; digital and digitised heritage; the use of heritage as a therapeutic resource; and critical approaches to heritage and its management. Taken together, the chapters explore the multiple ontologies through which cultural and natural heritage have actively intervened in redrawing the futures of Europe and the world.
| Type: | Book |
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| Title: | Critical Heritage Studies and the Futures of Europe |
| ISBN-13: | 9781800083936 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781800083936 |
| Publisher version: | https://10.14324/111.9781800083936 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This book is published under a Creative Commons Attribution- Non- Commercial 4.0 International licence (CC BY- NC 4.0), https:// crea tive comm ons.org/ licen ses/ by- nc/4.0/. This licence allows you to share and adapt the work for non- commercial use providing attribution is made to the author and publisher (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) and any changes are indicated. Attribution should include the following information: Harrison, R., Dias, N. and Kristiansen, K. (eds). 2023. Critical Heritage Studies and the Futures of Europe. London: UCL Press. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781800083936 Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/ |
| Keywords: | climate emergency, museums, social media, metada, digital cultural policy, transition landscape, participatory design, digital archives, digital maps, activism local communities, nationhood |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology > Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10178909 |
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