Rethinking Heritage in Precarious Times

Coloniality, Climate Change, and Covid-19
Herausgeber: Shepherd, Nick

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rethinking Heritage in Precarious Times sets a fresh agenda for Heritage Studies by reflecting upon the unprecedented nature of the contemporary moment. In doing so, the volume also calls into question established ideas, ways of working, and understandings of the future.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9781032036649
• ISBN-10: 1032036648
• Artikelnr.: 67680288

Autorenporträt

Nick Shepherd is an associate professor of heritage studies at Aarhus University, Denmark, and an extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Rethinking heritage in precarious times; SECTION 1: 'The
Heritage through my Window' and Stateless Heritage: Chapter 1 The Heritage
through my Window: Some reflections on teaching in the Brazilian Amazon
during the Covid-19 pandemic; Chapter 2 Covid Heritage Imperatives as New
Pharmacologies of Care: Revelations of 'Heritage Beyond Power' and 'What
Makes Life Worth Living'; SECTION 2: More-than-human Heritage: Chapter 3
Heritage and Posthumanism: Seeking harmony in a precarious and unstable
world; Chapter 4 River Love: Decolonizing heritage along the Meuse;
SECTION 3: Climate Action and the Anthropocene: Chapter 5 The Speculative
and the Profane: Reimagining heritage and museums for climate action;
Chapter 6 Towards a World Heritage for the Anthropocene; SECTION 4:
Heritage Violence and Extractivism: Chapter 7 Rural Landscapes, Extraction
and Heritage Violence in the Middle East; Chapter 8 Reckoning with
Extractivism: Towards an Anti-Colonial Heritage; SECTION 5: Anti-Racism,
People's Heritage, and 'Difficult Heritage at the Door': Chapter 9
Heritage, Social Justice and Black Lives Matter in Ireland during Covid-19;
Chapter 10 A People's Heritage: Engaging the traumas of marginalization;
Chapter 11 Difficult Heritage at the Door: Doing heritage research in
precarious times; SECTION 6: Coloniality, Peace Building, and Social
Justice: Chapter 12 Entries in an Apocryphal Diary: Heritage, crisis,
turbulent times; Chapter 13 Heritage, Reconciliation and Peacebuilding in
Australia and New Zealand; SECTION 7: Unsettled Urbanisms and Emergent
Internationalisms: Chapter 14 Unsettling the Heritage of Urbanity: Urbanism
and urban spaces in pandemic times; Chapter 15 Covid-19, Black Lives Matter
and Heritage Futures; SECTION 8: Heritage Futures and 'News from Nowhere':
Chapter 16 Covid-19 and Heritage in Southern Africa: Precariousness,
resilience, and the future of heritage; Chapter 17 Dreaming of Utopia in
Times of Trouble: Nowherian heritage inspiration and radical nostalgia
during lockdown; Conclusion: When the taps run dry.