Heritage Futures: Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices

by Rodney Harrison (Author), Caitlin Desilvey (Author), Cornelius Holtorf (Author), Sharon MacDonald (Author), Nadia Bartolini (Author), Esther Breithoff (Author), Harald Fredheim (Author), Antony Lyons (Author), Sarah May (Author), Jennie Morgan (Author), Sefryn Penrose (Author)

آینده‌های میراث: رویکردهای تطبیقی ​​به شیوه‌های میراث طبیعی و فرهنگی، نوشته‌ی رادنی هریسون (نویسنده)، کیتلین دسیلوی (نویسنده)، کورنلیوس هولتورف (نویسنده)، شارون مک‌دونالد (نویسنده)، نادیا بارتولینی (نویسنده)، استر بریتوف (نویسنده)، هارالد فردهایم (نویسنده)، آنتونی لیونز (نویسنده)، سارا می (نویسنده)، جنی مورگان (نویسنده)، سفرین پنروز (نویسنده)

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.