Caring for Cultural Heritage

An Integrated Approach to Legal and Ethical Initiatives in the United Kingdom
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-1-108-49840-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 420 Seiten, Format (B × H): 170 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 807 g

Reihe: Law in Context

This book explores how cultural heritage and its care are translated in UK law and non-law instruments. It analyses how communities of care look after cultural heritage because they care about it. These communities include the international and national community, national and local governments, courts, professional bodies, institutions such as museums as well as community groups. 'Care' refers to the varied ways in which communities engage with cultural heritage to maintain it, sustain relationships about it and with it, use it and provide access to it, with a view to passing it on to future generations. The book also assesses how far these nested practices of care assist communities of care in providing respectful, empathetic and dialogical care to navigate harm to cultural heritage. It will be of interest to scholars of cultural heritage studies across disciplines, including law, sociology and anthropology, as well as policymakers and practitioners in cultural heritage management.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Woodhead, Charlotte

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtssoziologie, Rechtspsychologie, Rechtslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction; Part I. Imagining and Translating Cultural Heritage and Its Care: 2. Caring for cultural heritage: a conceptual framework; 3. Nested practices of care for cultural heritage; 4. Translating how and why communities care about cultural heritage; Part II. Encouraging Flourishing and Averting Harm: 5. Creating communities of care – assuming responsibilities; 6. Quotidian care; 7. Navigating harm to cultural heritage; 8. The rhetoric of saving for the nation; Part III. Providing the Space to Resolve Dissonance: 9. Challenging the status quo: cultural heritage. care and justice; 10. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Woodhead, Charlotte
Charlotte Woodhead is Associate Professor at Warwick Law School, University of Warwick. Charlotte is a recognised expert in the restitution of cultural heritage, having been commissioned in 2018 by the United Kingdom's DCMS and the Spoliation Advisory Panel to write a report on elements of the 2017 London Conference Action Plan. Charlotte has also served as a member of the Museums Association Ethics Committee (2013–2019).