Heritage Futures: Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices

Rodney Harrison,Jennie Morgan,Sefryn Penrose,Caitlin DeSilvey,Cornelius Holtorf

Heritage Futures: Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices
Format
Paperback
Publisher
UCL Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
28 July 2020
Pages
520
ISBN
9781787356016

Heritage Futures: Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices

Rodney Harrison,Jennie Morgan,Sefryn Penrose,Caitlin DeSilvey,Cornelius Holtorf

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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