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Cultural Heritage and the Future
- 2021
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Cultural Heritage and the Future brings together an international group of scholars and experts to consider the relationship between cultural heritage and the future.Drawing on case studies from around the world, the contributing authors insist that cultural heritage and the future are intimately linked and that the development of futures thinking should be a priority for academics, students and those working in the wider professional heritage sector. Until recently, the future has never attracted substantial research and debate within heritage studies and heritage management, and this book addresses this gap by offering a balance of theoretical and empirical content that will stimulate multidisciplinary debate in the burgeoning field of critical heritage studies.Cultural Heritage and the Future questions the role of heritage in future making and will be of great relevance to academics and students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, archaeology, anthropology, architecture, conservation studies, sociology, history and geography. Those working in the heritage professions will also find much to interest them within the pages of this book.
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Heritage Futures : Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices
- 2020
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)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.
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- Holtorf, Cornelius, 1968-, et al.
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Archaeology and the Future
- 2018. - Living edition
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. - Cham : Springer. - 9783319517261
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The future has seldom been an object of archaeological study even though there are some very profound and deep-reaching links between past, present, and future. At the same time, archaeologists work to preserve places, environments, and associated values and knowledge for future generations. But although it is not far-fetched to claim that the future will differ from what we are used to in the present, in managing archaeological heritage, most assumptions about the future do not build on an understanding of how the future will be different from today. We argue in this paper that archaeologists should not only promote historical consciousness but also future consciousness.
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- Holtorf, Cornelius, 1968-, et al.
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Archaeology and the future : Managing nuclear waste as a living heritage
- 2015
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Ingår i: Radioactive Waste Management and Constructing Memory for Future Generations. - : OECD Publishing. ; , s. 97-101
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Archaeology is the study of the past and its remains in the present. It is relevant to the long-term preservation of records, knowledge and memory, e.g. regarding final repositories of nuclear waste, in two ways. Firstly, future archaeology may promise the recovery of lost information, knowledge and meaning of remains of the past. Secondly, present-day archaeology can offer lessons about how future societies will make sense of remains of the past.Archaeology is always situated in a larger social and cultural context and the information, knowledge and meaning it generates is necessarily of its own present. Archaeological knowledge reflects contemporary perceptions of past and future; these perceptions change over time. Indeed, we cannot assume that in the future there will be any archaeology at all. We think, therefore, that future societies will want, and need, to make their own decisions about sites associated with nuclear waste, based on their own perceptions of past and future. To facilitate this process in the long term we need to engage each present, keeping safe options open.In this text we elaborate on these issues from our perspective as archaeologists.
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- Holtorf, Cornelius, 1968-, et al.
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Archaeology and the Future
- 2024. - 2 ed.
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of Archaeology. - London : Academic Press. - 9780323907996 - 9780323918565 ; , s. 652-659
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The future is an important new topic for archaeology. Archaeologists do not only study past futures but are also concerned with future pasts and in particular with the impact of their work on future societies. Drawing on the notion of “heritage futures”, archaeological heritage is claimed to contribute to sustainable development and address challenges posed by climate change, human conflicts, and others.
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- Holtorf, Cornelius, 1968-, et al.
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Archaeology and the Future
- 2020. - 2 ed.
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Ingår i: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. - Cham : Springer. - 9783030300166 - 9783030300180 ; , s. 646-653
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- Holtorf, Cornelius, 1968-, et al.
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Communicating with future generations : what are the benefits of preserving for future generations? Nuclear power and beyond
- 2014
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Ingår i: The European Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies. - 2039-7895. ; 4, s. 315-330
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In 1977, the first fast breeder nuclear reactor in the world to provide electricity to a national grid was shut down for the last time. The Dounreay Dome on the North coast of Scotland, near Thurso, Caithness, was completed in 1958 and its silhouette later became an emblem of the Atomic Age. As the decommission of the entire site proceeds, incorporating even other defunct nuclear reactors and associated facilities, the question arose whether the Dome can and should be preserved as cultural heritage for the benefit of future generations. Using the example of the legacy of the nuclear power station at Dounreay, this paper discusses the question what it means to preserve something for the benefit of future generations.
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- Holtorf, Cornelius, 1968-, et al.
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Contemporary Heritage and the Future
- 2015
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Ingår i: The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan. - 9781137293558 - 9781349451234 - 9781137293565 ; , s. 509-523
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Studies of the future are pertinent in order to make the best decisions in present society. They are, however, full of difficulties, as the future is an empirical field which does not exist (Slaughter, 1996; Bell, 1997; Mogensen, 2006). Both pertinence and difficulties apply also to studying the future in relation to human culture. The main challenge lies in the circumstance that cultural heritage of the future cannot in itself be empirically investigated and described, since it is in part dependent on decisions that have not yet been made. Studying heritage futures is thus about considering what we know about cultural heritage in the context of prognoses and visions of what will come. Yet how do we do that? The American anthropologist Samuel Gerald Collins contributed to an interesting discussion on how anthropology and anthropologists have previously embraced the future and how they might now be embracing it. He emphasized that an important approach is to vouchsafe the possibility that future ways in which people will think and act may be very different from today, and, in doing so, to open up a space (or a spacetime) for critical reflection on the present (Collins, 2008, p. 8). This approach is a useful programmatic declaration for engaging with the future in disciplines such as anthropology, archaeology, history and heritage studies.
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- Holtorf, Cornelius, 1968-, et al.
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Final reflections : The future of heritage
- 2021
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Ingår i: Cultural Heritage and the Future. - London ; New York, NY : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2021. | : Routledge. - 9781138829015 - 9781138829008 - 9781315644615 ; , s. 264-269
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The heritage sector would benefit from more detailed knowledge on how specific perceptions of the future inform heritage practices and how contemporary heritage management relates to those future trends that we can actually make out today. Given that heritage experts should be among those best equipped to place social practices and their underlying logics into a larger historical perspective acknowledging change over time, this is somewhat surprising. One possible concrete strategy is to add temporality to decisions about heritage conservation. This can be achieved either by adding explicit future recipients to specific conservation projects or by setting “expiry dates”. Another possible strategy aims at directly empowering future generations. Maybe the key for future benefits of heritage lies as much in educating audiences how to think and use heritage in a way that benefits people and society rather than merely in making sure that a particular kind of heritage is physically preserved.
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