The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Ethics by Pantazatos, Andreas; Ireland, Tracy; Schofield, John;

Short description:

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Ethics offers a comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the concepts, challenges and dilemmas that characterise and shape contemporary heritage ethics in theory and practice.

Long description:

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Ethics offers a comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the

concepts, challenges and dilemmas that characterise and shape contemporary heritage ethics

in theory and practice. The essays within this volume examine how ethical approaches to heritage

have evolved and explore the ethical issues that have arisen from these changing contexts.

Including 34 original, detailed, and impassioned contributions from across five continents,

this book affords equal focus to theoretical perspectives and practice, drawing out the importance

of ethics through diverse case studies on topics as varied as built heritage, colonialism,

material culture, the environment, traditions and lived experience. Throughout this volume,

chapters highlight the need for all practitioners and researchers to adopt an ethical approach,

alongside the need to understand what this entails and how best to deliver it. Following a foundational

introduction that contextualises ethics within broader cultural changes, and a first section

outlining key theoretical frameworks, chapters are divided into four thematic sections on

difficult heritage, digital heritage, heritage interactions and heritage management and policy.

Together, these chapters comprise an important, timely and wide-ranging volume that provides

a fresh analysis of the key concepts that shape and inform heritage ethics. It will engage

those whose work and interests intersect with the broad gamut of cultural heritage—whether

physical or digital, focused on artefacts or communities, the iconic or the everyday, in the field,

museums or historic sites, from the remote past or the contemporary world. This Handbook will

be of interest to students, researchers and practitioners from across a broad range of disciplines,

including anthropology, archaeology, geography, heritage studies, history and philosophy.

Table of Contents:

List of figures; List of contributors; Chapter 1 Heritage and Ethics: an Introduction; Section 1 Introduction: Frameworks – Chapter 2 Shrunken Heads and Vessels of Wrath: Moralising Cultural Heritage; Chapter 3 Intrinsic and Universal Value in Heritage Ethics; Chapter 4 The Ethics of Heritage in a Fragile and Burning World; Chapter 5  Caring Encounters: Understanding, Care, and the Heritage of the Leros Psychiatric Hospital; Chapter 6 Anticipating Loss, Again: Exploring the Ethical Implications of the Dialectical Relationship between Heritage and Risk Perception; Chapter 7 Queering Museum Heritage: Dis-orienting the Straight and Narrow; Section 2 Introduction: Difficult Heritage – Chapter 8 Diversity, Values and Authenticity in Negotiating Difficult Heritage; Chapter 9 When Ethics is not Enough: Dealing with Difficult Heritages of the Spanish Post-Civil War at the Local Scale; Chapter 10 Ethics of Conservation: Feminicide, Graffiti and National Heritage in Mexico; Chapter 11 The Monument that Racism Built: Putting Representations of Slavery and Confederate Monuments into Ethical Perspective; Chapter 12 Oral History, Ethical Practices, and Applications to Australian Migrant Heritage Places; Chapter 13 Heritage Tourism and the Ethics of Bearing Witness; Section 3 Introduction: Digital Heritage – Chapter 14 Virtual Heritage: How Could It Be Ethical?; Chapter 15  Digital Heritage and Epistemic Justice; Chapter 16  Flying into the Archive: the Ethics of (Post)colonial Digital Heritage in Australia; Chapter 17 Ethical Approaches to Creative Community Collaborations; Chapter 18 Off the Altar: Reshaping the Sustainable Management of Cultural Heritage in the Context of Authenticity Under the Influence of Digitalization; Chapter 19 Creative Engagements with the Ethics of Heritage Research in the Age of the Data Deluge; Section 4 Introduction: Heritage Interactions – Chapter 20 Divergences between Community Perspectives and Authorized Heritage Discourses: The Maritime Silk Routes Heritage of Taishan, China; Chapter 21 Whose Intangible Cultural Heritage Story? Experiencing Gongfu Tea with a Camera; Chapter 22 Toward an Ethics of Naturecultures: Learning from Practice; Chapter 23 Community Resilience in Post-disaster Contexts: Negotiating Heritage Authenticity; Chapter 24 Ethical Dilemmas of Emergency Flood Diversion: Cultural Erosion and Justice in a Marginalized Flood-Prone Village; Chapter 25 Education for All: The Ethics of Exhibitions for and of Disabled People within Archaeological Museums; Chapter 26 The Construction of the Museums System and the Legitimacy of Collecting in China; Section 5 Introduction: Management and Policy – Chapter 27 World Heritage Universalism and its Exclusion of Heritage Cosmologies; Chapter 28 Gardens and Garages: Everyday Places and the Ethics of Heritage Protection; Chapter 29 The Ethics of Partnership: Working Across the Heritage, Humanitarian, and Uniformed Sectors to Protect Heritage During Armed Conflict; Chapter 30 Publicly Ethical, Privately Unethical: The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Manipulation of Ancient Cultural Heritage; Chapter 31 Whose Authenticity and Values Count? New Understandings and Ethical Futures for Replicas; Chapter 32 Unethical Foodscapes? Heritage and Landscape in the Food System; Chapter 33 Institutional Ethics versus Field Experience: A Decolonial Perspective from Heritage Research in Nigeria; Chapter 34 Ethical Considerations in Managing the Heritage Values of Lunar Sites  Index.