The Ethics of Cultural Heritage

The 12 wide-ranging, eclectic chapters in this collection attempt to realign heritage ethics, placing discussions in terms of human rights and social justice and offering pathways toward social action. As a collection, the work raises significant points for discussion. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. (G. R. Campbell, Choice, Vol. 54 (3), November, 2016)

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. Tracys 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.

Chapter 1: The ethics of cultural heritage.- Section 1: Ethical domains.- Chapter 2: Ethics and digital heritage.- Chapter 3: Ethics and heritage tourism.- Chapter 4: Heritage and community engagement.- Chapter 5: Ethics, conservation and climate change.- Chapter 6: Repatriating human remains: searching for an acceptable ethics.- Chapter 7: The ethics of visibility: archaeology, conservation and memories of settler colonialism.- Chapter 8: The normative foundations of stewardship: care and respect.- Section 2: Ethics in practice.- Chapter 9: Ethics and collecting in the post modern museum: a Papua New Guinea example.- Chapter 10: Tourism, World Heritage and local communities: an ethical framework in practice at Angkor.- Chapter 11: A matter of trust: the organisational design of the Museo de la Libertad y la Democracia, Panama.- Chapter 12: Lets forget about Heritage: place, ethics and the Faro Convention.