Oxford handbook of public heritage theory and practice

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Public heritage as social practice / Angela M. Labrador and Neil Asher Silberman -- Creating universal value : the UNESCO World Heritage Convention in its fifth decade / Christoph Brumann -- The suffocated cultural heritage of sub-Saharan Africa's protected areas / Susan O. Keitumetse and Arpakwa O. Sikorei -- Sustainable conservation of urban heritage : the contribution of governance-focused studies / Eduardo Rojas -- Heritage and the politics of cooperation / Tim Winter -- Culture, heritage, and the politics of becoming / Joanie Willett -- Problematizing the idea of heritage management / Marina Dantas de Figueiredo -- Heritage and management, professional utopianism, administrative naiveté, and organizational uncertainty at the shipwrecks of Pisa / Luca Zan and Daniel Shoup -- Accounting for what we treasure : economic valuation of public heritage / Sheila Ellwood -- Cultural heritage : capital, commons, and heritages / Christian Barrére -- Heritage as remaking : locating heritage in the contemporary world / Scott A. Lukas -- Culturally reflexive stewardship : conserving ways of life / Robert H. Winthrop -- Neoliberalism and the equivocations of empire / Jim McGuigan -- Public heritage and the promise of digital / Jenny Kidd -- On the need for a nuanced understanding of "community" in heritage policy and practice / Martin Mulligan -- "What could be more reasonable?" Collaboration in colonial contexts / Marina La Salle and Richard M. Hutchings -- The special responsibility of public spaces to dismantle white supremacist historical narratives / Karen L. B. Burgard and Michael L. Boucher, Jr. -- Public heritage as transformative experience : the co-occupation of place and decision-making / David M. Schaepe -- The social sciences : what role in conservation? / Ned Kaufman -- People in place : local planning to preserve diverse cultures / James Michael Buckley -- Heritage as an element of the scenescape / Martha Frish Okabe, Daniel Silver, and Terry Nichols Clark -- Contesting the aesthetic construction of community : the new suburban landscape / Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga -- Agricultural heritage and conservation beyond the anthropocene / Daniel Niles -- Public heritage in the symbiocene / Glenn A. Albrecht -- Mapping authenticity : cognition and emotion in public heritage / Steven J. Mock -- Understanding well-being : a mechanism for measuring the impact of heritage practice on well-being / Faye Sayer -- Effects of conversations with sites of public heritage on collective memory / Martin M. Fagin -- Intergenerational learning : a tool for building and transforming cultural heritage / Giulia Cortellesi, Jessica Harpley, and Margaret Kernan.

"The field of cultural heritage is no longer solely dependent on the expertise of art and architectural historians, archaeologists, conservators, curators, and site and museum administrators. It has dramatically expanded across disciplinary boundaries and social contexts, with even the basic the definition of what constitutes cultural heritage being widened far beyond the traditional categories of architecture, artifacts, archives, and art. Heritage now includes vernacular architecture, intangible cultural practices, knowledge, and language, performances and rituals, as well as cultural landscapes. Heritage has also become increasingly entangled with the broader social, political, and economic contexts in which heritage is created, managed, transmitted, protected, or even destroyed. Heritage protection now encompasses a growing set of methodological approaches whose objectives are not necessarily focused upon the maintenance of material fabric, which has traditionally been cultural heritage's primary concern. This handbook charts some of the major sites of convergence between the humanities and the social sciences--where new disciplinary perspectives are being brought to bear on heritage. These convergences have the potential to provide the inter-disciplinary expertise needed not only to critique but also to achieve the intertwined intellectual, political, and socio-economic goals of cultural heritage in the 21st century. This volume highlights the potential contributions of development studies, political science, anthropology, management studies, human geography, ecology, psychology, sociology, cognitive studies, and education"--