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Displaced Heritage: Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss
I Convery
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Description for Displaced Heritage: Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss
Hardback. Considerations of the effect of trauma on heritage sites. Editor(s): Convery, Dr. Ian; Corsane, Gerard; Davis, Peter. Series: Heritage Matters. Num Pages: 359 pages, 60 black & white illustrations, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HBG; HBTB; JFFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 171 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1108.
Considerations of the effect of trauma on heritage sites. The essays in this volume address the displacement of natural and cultural heritage caused by disasters, whether they be dramatic natural impacts or terrible events unleashed by humankind, including holocaust and genocide. Disasters can be natural or human-made, rapid or slow, great or small, yet the impact is effectively the same; nature, people and cultural heritage are displaced or lost. Yet while heritage and place are at risk from disasters, in time,sites of suffering are sometimes reframed as sites of memory; through this different lens these "difficult" places become heritage ... Read more
Considerations of the effect of trauma on heritage sites. The essays in this volume address the displacement of natural and cultural heritage caused by disasters, whether they be dramatic natural impacts or terrible events unleashed by humankind, including holocaust and genocide. Disasters can be natural or human-made, rapid or slow, great or small, yet the impact is effectively the same; nature, people and cultural heritage are displaced or lost. Yet while heritage and place are at risk from disasters, in time,sites of suffering are sometimes reframed as sites of memory; through this different lens these "difficult" places become heritage ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
359
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843839637
SKU
V9781843839637
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99-50
About I Convery
Ian Convery is Professor of Environment & Society at the University of Cumbria. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is a director of the Lifescapes Project conservation charity. Peter Davis is Emeritus Professor of Museology in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests relate to the connections between place, nature, ... Read more
Reviews for Displaced Heritage: Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss
[T]his remains a book which should be read by those with an interest in the social dimension of disasters, in how society responds in different ways to trauma and loss and how heritage can be repossessed, rebuilt and re-presented in novel ways, implicitly as part of a recovery process. The chapters present contemporary debates and practices based on equally contemporary ... Read more