Values in Heritage Management: Emerging Approaches and Research Directions

by Erica Avrami (Editor), Susan Macdonald (Editor), Randall Mason (Editor), David Myers (Editor)

Overview

Bringing together leading conservation scholars and professionals from around the world, this volume offers a timely look at values-based approaches to heritage management.
 
Over the last fifty years, conservation professionals have confronted increasingly complex political, economic, and cultural dynamics. This volume, with contributions by leading international practitioners and scholars, reviews how values-based methods have come to influence conservation, takes stock of emerging approaches to values in heritage practice and policy, identifies common challenges and related spheres of knowledge, and proposes specific areas in which the development of new approaches and future research may help advance the field.

The free online edition of this open-access book is available at www.getty.edu/publications/heritagemanagement/ and includes zoomable illustrations. Also available are free PDF, EPUB, and Kindle/MOBI downloads of the book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781606066201
Publisher:	J. Paul Getty Trust, The
Publication date:	12/03/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	278
File size:	22 MB
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About the Author

Erica Avrami is James Marston Fitch Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University.

Susan Macdonald is the head of field projects at the Getty Conservation Institute, where she oversees the Conserving Modern Architecture Initiative.

Randall Mason is chair of the Graduate Program in Historic Preservation at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design.

David Myers is senior project specialist at the Getty Conservation Institute.

Table of Contents

Foreword Jeanne Marie Teutonico vii

Acknowledgments x

Part I Background

1 Introduction Erica Avrami Susan Macdonald Randall Mason David Myers 1

2 Mapping the Issue of Values Erica Avrami Randall Mason 9

Part II Perspectives from the Field

3 Spatializing Values in Heritage Conservation: The Potential of Cultural Mapping Erica Avrami 35

4 Heritage Work: Understanding the Values, Applying the Values Kristal Buckley 50

5 The Shift toward Values in UK Heritage Practice Kate Clark 66

6 Understanding Values of Cultural Heritage within the Framework of Social Identity Conflicts Karina V. Korostelina 83

7 The Contemporary Values behind Chinese Heritage Kuanghan Li 97

8 Values-Based Management and the Burra Charter: 1979,1999, 2013 Richard Mackay 110

9 Is Conservation of Cultural Heritage Halal? Perspectives on Heritage Values Rooted in Arabic-Islamic Traditions Hossam Mahdy 127

10 Changing Concepts and Values in Natural Heritage Conservation: A View through IUCN and UNESCO Policies Josep-Maria Mallarach Bas Verschuuren 141

11 Valuing Traumatic Heritage Places as Archives and Agents Randall Mason 158

12 Values and Relationships between Tangible and Intangible Dimensions of Heritage Places Ayesha Pamela Rogers 172

13 The Paradox of Valuing the Invaluable: Managing Cultural Values in Heritage Places Tara Sharma 186

14 Heritage Economics: Coming to Terms with Value and Valuation David Throsby 199

15 From the Inside Looking Out: Indigenous Perspectives on Heritage Values Joe Watkins 210

Appendix: Conclusions and Recommendations of the Symposium Participants 223

Further Readings in Heritage Values 226

Symposium Participants 239

Contributors 241

Editorial Reviews

The aim of the volume, to take stock of recent developments in the application of values based heritage management, to explore emerging challenges and set out areas for future research, has provided a wide range of case studies, reviews and recommendations.”

The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice - Michael Dawson

While this work likely has some appeal to professionals and policy makers as an introduction to the concept of values-based heritage management—it does provide interesting case studies and recommendations—its greatest benefit would be to students and scholars in historic preservation and affiliated fields.”
 

Preservation Education & Research - Emily Bergeron

Timely exploration of advances in the development and use of values-based methodologies.

Context - Dennis Rodwell

Featuring distinguished authors steeped in the theory and practice of heritage conservation, this book effectively captures the 21st century shift in notions of heritage value. A timely discussion of theoretical frameworks and practical approaches to values-based decision-making, this Getty publication will appeal to scholars and heritage professionals as well as to students, policy makers and local authorities in search of guidance for understanding and managing significant places in their communities.”
—Christina Cameron, Université de Montréal

“A good resource for new researchers and practitioners. . . . The book acts as a link from heritage management to the broader social sciences finishing with the economic aspects of heritage policy.”
—Robert M. O’Halloran, Journal of Heritage Tourism
 

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