The village of Catoctin Furnace, located in rural Maryland, in the United States, houses an early iron furnace site. Operational by 1776, its workforce in the early years was almost entirely enslaved ...African and African American people. A local non-profit, the Catoctin Furnace Historical Society, Inc. (CFHS), on the board of which one of the authors serves, has made the search for a descendant community of these enslaved and freed Black workers a principal focus, while also preserving the heritage of European labourers and trying to foster economic and cultural activity in the village. So far, no living, direct descendant of a person who was enslaved at Catoctin Furnace has been identified, meaning the site can be considered 'orphan heritage'. Looking at the site through the lenses of orphan heritage and 'fictive kinship' provides an alternative analytical framework which may be usefully applied at other sites. This case study helps us understand the notion of 'rights-based approaches' and how site managers can handle the sometimes clashing needs and desires of different groups while balancing their respective rights to heritage and to other human rights, as well as the use of artistic modes of interpretation in democratising access to the past.
Response to the reader Vannini, Phillip; Vannini, April S.
Area (London 1969),
March 2020, 2020-03-00, 20200301, Letnik:
52, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
In this short rebuttal of the reader's response, we reiterate the main arguments driving our original paper.
The UNESCO World Heritage Convention has become one of the most successful UN instruments for promoting cultural diplomacy and dialogue on conservation of cultural and natural heritage. This book ...provides an overview of the convention through an interdisciplinary approach to conservation. It shows that based on the notion of outstanding universal value and international co-operation for the protection of heritage, the convention provides a platform for sustainable development through the conservation and management of heritage of significance to humanity. With increasing globalization of heritage, World Heritage Conservation is reviewed as an emerging interdisciplinary field of study creating new opportunities for inclusive heritage debate both locally and globally, requiring common tools and understanding. With over a thousand properties inscribed on the World Heritage List, from biologically diverse sites such as the Central Amazon Conservation Complex to the urban landscape of the metropolis of Rio de Janeiro, this book will help students, researchers and professionals in the identification, protection, conservation and presentation of World Heritage. Targeted at a diversity of disciplines, the book critically describes the strategies for implementing the convention and the processes of heritage governance for sustainable development.
Obwohl ein Erbe der Vergangenheit niemals vollständig Teil der Gegenwart sein kann, gibt es das allgegenwärtige Bedürfnis nach einer materiellen oder ideellen Kohärenz von Erbe - beispielsweise, um ...eine Identität zu definieren. Aus diesem Paradoxon entsteht ein permanenter Konflikt zwischen der Vieldeutigkeit kulturellen Erbes und einer Sehnsucht nach Eindeutigkeit, Kontrolle und Ganzheit, die sich mit dem Begriff der Integrität umschreiben lässt. Sophie Stackmann untersucht erstmals systematisch das Integritäts-Verständnis in Diskursen um Denkmalschutz, kulturelles Erbe und Welterbe. Dabei diskutiert sie auch den grundlegenden Konflikt im Umgang mit kulturellem Erbe.
Editorial Bradburne, James M
Museum management and curatorship (1990),
12/2022, Letnik:
37, Številka:
6
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Welcome to the sixth and final issue of 2022. The proxy war between Russia and the West shows no sign of a peaceful resolution, but not only is the human cost is spiralling out of control, but the ...damage to monuments, institutions and cultural heritage is increasing daily, with unforgiving and irrevocable consequences. Every time our heritage is damaged or destroyed, we all suffer the loss. As a journal aimed at supporting reflective practice, we cannot stand back from the issues the world is currently facing. The current war has now thrown the issues of economic and social inequality, structural racism, and the precarious balance between international law and naked power into even starker relief, which only exacerbate the critical issue of climate change, which continues to call out for immediate and decisive action.
Petra, Jordan became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1985, and the semi-nomadic Bedouin inhabiting the area were resettled as a consequence. The Bedouin themselves paradoxically became UNESCO ...Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Heritage in 2005 for the way in which their oral traditions and everyday lives relate to the landscape they no longer live in. Being Bedouin Around Petra asks: How could this happen? And what does it mean to be Bedouin when tourism, heritage protection, national discourse, an Islamic Revival and even New Age spiritualism lay competing claims to the past in the present?
The predicted increases in climate change vulnerability of heritage sites are alarming. Yet, heritage management focuses on enabling a steady state of heritage sites to ensure the continuity of ...values embedded within those properties. In this paper, we use the concept of resilience to demonstrate how expanding the heritage paradigm from solely a preservation perspective to one that also embraces a transformation perspective can accommodate for loss as well as promote learning. We argue that adaptation as currently conceptualized in the heritage field is limited, as it is not economically or ecologically feasible for all heritage sites or properties. When heritage properties are severely impacted by climatic events, we suggest that some remain damaged to serve as a memory of that event and the inherent vulnerabilities embedded in places. Moreover, when confronted with projected climatic impacts that exceed a financially viable threshold or ecological reality, or when rights holders or associated communities deem persistent adaptation unacceptable, we argue for transformation. We claim that transformation enables a reorganization of values focused on the discovery of future values embedded within changing associations and benefits. Therefore, we recommend that the heritage field adopts an alternative heritage policy that enables transformative continuity through applications of persistent and autonomous or anticipatory adaptation. We conclude by suggesting a pathway for such change at the international level; specifically, we call for the World Heritage Convention to develop a new grouping of sites,
World Heritage Sites in Climatic Transformation
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This paper focuses on the creative ingenuity of tourism providers in storying and providing varied readings of archaeological sites that have been physically lost. In conceptualising providers' ...efforts in mobilising (in)tangible aspects of archaeological heritage to accord them an inimitable identity and visible presence, we draw upon research on creativity and creative tourism. Our findings reveal how innovative meaning-making opportunities transform archaeological heritage into a valuable creative tourism resource that can be used to enhance the market appeal of local products and resources through theming and creative storytelling. Overall, this study contributes to nascent work on participative co-creation of archaeological heritage that can serve as an effective means of creating meaningful interpretive experiences at cultural tourism destinations.
•Memory and knowledge of historical sites persist after physical loss.•Creativity of tourism providers provides varied readings of archaeological sites.•Participative co-creation is an effective means of creating meaningful experiences.
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