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Heritage Futures
Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices
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.
520 pages | 188 color plates | 6.14 x 9.21 | © 2020
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Table of Contents
"List of figures
Notes on contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: Heritage futures
1. ‘For ever, for everyone …’
Rodney Harrison, Caitlin DeSilvey, Cornelius Holtorf and
Sharon Macdonald
2. Heritage as future-making practices
Rodney Harrison
Part II: Diversity
3. Conserving diversity
Rodney Harrison, Esther Breithoff and Sefryn Penrose
4. Diverse fields: Ex-situ collecting practices
Sefryn Penrose, Rodney Harrison and Esther Breithoff
5. Repositories
Sefryn Penrose, Rodney Harrison and Esther Breithoff
6. Banking time: Trading in futures
Esther Breithoff and Rodney Harrison
7. Proxies
Esther Breithoff
8. Towards the total archive
Rodney Harrison and Esther Breithoff
Cross-theme knowledge-exchange event 1
9. The hundred-thousand-year question
Sefryn Penrose, Rodney Harrison, Cornelius Holtorf and
Sarah May
Part III Profusion
10. Too many things to keep for the future?
Sharon Macdonald, Jennie Morgan and Harald Fredheim
11. Curating museum profusion
Harald Fredheim, Sharon Macdonald and Jennie Morgan
12. Let’s talk!
Harald Fredheim
13. Curating domestic profusion
Jennie Morgan and Sharon Macdonald
14. The Human Bower
Jennie Morgan
15. Doomed?
Sharon Macdonald, Jennie Morgan and Harald Fredheim
Cross-theme knowledge-exchange event 2
16. Collections as techniques of worlding
Rodney Harrison and Sefryn Penrose
Part IV: Uncertainty
17. Uncertain futures
Sarah May and Cornelius Holtorf
18. A shepherd’s futures: Shepherds and World Heritage in the Lake District
Sarah May
19. Toxic heritage: Uncertain and unsafe
Gustav Wollentz, Sarah May, Cornelius Holtorf and
Anders Högberg
20. Micro-messaging/space messaging: A comparative
exploration of #GoodbyePhilae and #MessageToVoyager
Sarah May
21. The one-million-year time capsule
Antony Lyons and Cornelius Holtorf
22. Uncertainty, collaboration and emerging issues
Cornelius Holtorf and Sarah May
Cross-theme knowledge-exchange event 3
23. Transforming loss
Nadia Bartolini and Caitlin DeSilvey
Part V Transformation
24. Living with transformation
Caitlin DeSilvey, Nadia Bartolini and Antony Lyons
25. Fixing naturecultures: Spatial and temporal strategies
for managing heritage transformation and entanglement
Nadia Bartolini
26. Sensitive chaos: Geopoetic flows and wildings in the edgelands
Antony Lyons
27. Signifying transformation
Caitlin DeSilvey, Nadia Bartolini and Antony Lyons
28. Processing change
Caitlin DeSilvey, Nadia Bartolini and Antony Lyons
Part VI: Future heritages
29. Discussion and conclusions
Rodney Harrison, Caitlin DeSilvey, Cornelius Holtorf,
Sharon Macdonald, Nadia Bartolini, Esther Breithoff,
Harald Fredheim, Antony Lyons, Sarah May, Jennie
Morgan and Sefryn Penrose
References
Index"
Notes on contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I: Heritage futures
1. ‘For ever, for everyone …’
Rodney Harrison, Caitlin DeSilvey, Cornelius Holtorf and
Sharon Macdonald
2. Heritage as future-making practices
Rodney Harrison
Part II: Diversity
3. Conserving diversity
Rodney Harrison, Esther Breithoff and Sefryn Penrose
4. Diverse fields: Ex-situ collecting practices
Sefryn Penrose, Rodney Harrison and Esther Breithoff
5. Repositories
Sefryn Penrose, Rodney Harrison and Esther Breithoff
6. Banking time: Trading in futures
Esther Breithoff and Rodney Harrison
7. Proxies
Esther Breithoff
8. Towards the total archive
Rodney Harrison and Esther Breithoff
Cross-theme knowledge-exchange event 1
9. The hundred-thousand-year question
Sefryn Penrose, Rodney Harrison, Cornelius Holtorf and
Sarah May
Part III Profusion
10. Too many things to keep for the future?
Sharon Macdonald, Jennie Morgan and Harald Fredheim
11. Curating museum profusion
Harald Fredheim, Sharon Macdonald and Jennie Morgan
12. Let’s talk!
Harald Fredheim
13. Curating domestic profusion
Jennie Morgan and Sharon Macdonald
14. The Human Bower
Jennie Morgan
15. Doomed?
Sharon Macdonald, Jennie Morgan and Harald Fredheim
Cross-theme knowledge-exchange event 2
16. Collections as techniques of worlding
Rodney Harrison and Sefryn Penrose
Part IV: Uncertainty
17. Uncertain futures
Sarah May and Cornelius Holtorf
18. A shepherd’s futures: Shepherds and World Heritage in the Lake District
Sarah May
19. Toxic heritage: Uncertain and unsafe
Gustav Wollentz, Sarah May, Cornelius Holtorf and
Anders Högberg
20. Micro-messaging/space messaging: A comparative
exploration of #GoodbyePhilae and #MessageToVoyager
Sarah May
21. The one-million-year time capsule
Antony Lyons and Cornelius Holtorf
22. Uncertainty, collaboration and emerging issues
Cornelius Holtorf and Sarah May
Cross-theme knowledge-exchange event 3
23. Transforming loss
Nadia Bartolini and Caitlin DeSilvey
Part V Transformation
24. Living with transformation
Caitlin DeSilvey, Nadia Bartolini and Antony Lyons
25. Fixing naturecultures: Spatial and temporal strategies
for managing heritage transformation and entanglement
Nadia Bartolini
26. Sensitive chaos: Geopoetic flows and wildings in the edgelands
Antony Lyons
27. Signifying transformation
Caitlin DeSilvey, Nadia Bartolini and Antony Lyons
28. Processing change
Caitlin DeSilvey, Nadia Bartolini and Antony Lyons
Part VI: Future heritages
29. Discussion and conclusions
Rodney Harrison, Caitlin DeSilvey, Cornelius Holtorf,
Sharon Macdonald, Nadia Bartolini, Esther Breithoff,
Harald Fredheim, Antony Lyons, Sarah May, Jennie
Morgan and Sefryn Penrose
References
Index"