Overview
- A multidisciplinary focus that brings together perspectives from conservation, museums, memory studies, digital heritage, indigenous studies, heritage management, anthropology and archaeology
- Emphasis on future issues and solutions makes the text required reading for policy makers, government heritage agencies and professionals
- Includes a special epilogue section with contributions by key commentators in the cultural heritage field
Part of the book series: Ethical Archaeologies: The Politics of Social Justice (ETHARCHAEOL, volume 4)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Ethical Domains
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Front Matter
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Ethics in Practice
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Back Matter
Keywords
- archaeology and digital media
- climate change, archaeology, and ethics
- cultural heritage and digital media
- cultural heritage management and ethics
- ethical discourses on tourism
- globalization and archaeology
- heritage profession and ethiical issues
- museums, archaeology, and ethics
- postcolonial archaeology and ethics
- tourism, cultural heritage, and ethics
About this book
It is widely acknowledged that all archaeological research is embedded within cultural, political and economic contexts, and that all archaeological research falls under the heading ‘heritage’. Most archaeologists now work in museums and other cultural institutions, government agencies, non-government organisations and private sector companies, and this diversity ensures that debates continue to proliferate about what constitutes appropriate professional ethics within these related and relevant contexts.
Discussions about the ethics of cultural heritage in the 20th century focused on standards of professionalism, stewardship, responsibilities to stakeholders and on establishing public trust in the authenticity of the outcomes of the heritage process. This volume builds on recent approaches that move away from treating ethics as responsibilities to external domains and to the discipline, and which seek to ensure ethics are integral to all heritage theory, practice and methods. The chapters in this collection chart a departure from the tradition of external heritage ethics towards a broader approach underpinned by the turn to human rights, issues of social justice and the political economy of heritage, conceptualising ethical responsibilities not as pertaining to the past, but to a future-focused domain of social action.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Tracy Ireland is an archaeologist and heritage practitioner who joined the University of Canberra in 2009 and is currently Head of the Discipline of Humanities. She previously led the Canberra office of Godden Mackay Logan, Heritage Consultants, lectured at the University Sydney and worked as the Senior Archaeologist for the NSW Heritage Council. Tracy publishes on historical and landscape archaeology, heritage conservation and the cultural politics of the past. Tracy’s current work focuses on the Material Memories Project examining the conservation of archaeological remains and heritage place making in settler societies.
John Schofield is Head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of York and Director of Studies in Cultural Heritage Management. John was previously an archaeologist with English Heritage, an organisation he joined following the completion of his PhD research in 1989 and where he remained until 2010. He had numerous roles in that time, within heritage protection and policy, taking on the role of Head of Military Programmes in 2000. During his last ten years with English Heritage his outreach responsibilities included regular teaching commitments in the UK and overseas, not least at the universities of Southampton and Bristol. John is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a Member of the Institute for Archaeologists and a Docent in Cultural Heritage, Landscape and Contemporary Archaeology at the University of Turku (Finland). He has published extensively in the fields of cultural heritage, archaeology of the recent and contemporary pasts, and the archaeology of conflict.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Ethics of Cultural Heritage
Editors: Tracy Ireland, John Schofield
Series Title: Ethical Archaeologies: The Politics of Social Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1649-8
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-1648-1Published: 01 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-3762-2Published: 12 March 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-1649-8Published: 01 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2730-6925
Series E-ISSN: 2730-6933
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 219
Number of Illustrations: 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Archaeology, Ethics, Cultural Heritage