The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Destruction presents a comprehensive view on the destruction of cultural heritage and offers insights into this multifaceted, interdisciplinary phenomenon; the methods scholars have used to study it; and the results these various methods have produced.
By juxtaposing theoretical and legal frameworks and conceptual contexts alongside a wide distribution of geographical and temporal case studies, this book throws light upon the risks, and the realizations, of art and heritage destruction. Exploring the variety of forces that drive the destruction of heritage, the volume also contains contributions that consider what forms heritage destruction takes and in which contexts and circumstances it manifests. Contributors, including local scholars, also consider how these drivers and contexts change, and what effect this has on heritage destruction, and how we conceptualise it. Overall, the book establishes the importance of the need to study the destruction of art and cultural heritage within a wider framework that encompasses not only theory but also legal, military, social, and ontological issues.
The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Destruction will contribute to the development of a more complete understanding and analysis of heritage destruction. The Handbook will be useful to academics, students, and professionals with interest in heritage, conservation and preservation, history and art history, archaeology, anthropology, philosophy, and law.
1. A path well worn? Approaches for the old problem of heritage
destruction; Part 1 Understanding Destruction --
2. Heritage Destruction in
Conflict;
3. Talking about Heritage Destruction in Market Countries;
4.
Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Peacetime and International Law;
5.
Development of the Law of Armed Conflict as Applied to Cultural Heritage;
6.
Heritage Destruction and Human Rights;
7. Heritage Destruction and Genocide:
Legal Resistance, Conceptual Resiliency;
8. Methods, Motivations, and Actors:
A Risk-based Approach to Heritage Destruction and Protection; Part 2
Interpretations of Destruction
9. Heritage Destruction, Natural Disasters,
and the Environment: Geological Disasters;
10. Heritage Destruction, Natural
Disasters, and the Environment: Atmospheric Disasters;
11. Flooded Heritage:
The Impact of Dams on Archaeological Sites;
12. On Destruction in Art and
Film;
13. Between Heritage and the Readymadethe Imminent Aesthetic of Ai
Weiwei;
14. Heritage Predation and the Pursuit of Politics;
15. Post-conflict
Recovery Challenges: Affect and Heritage in Post-conflict Cyprus and Italy;
16. Media Narratives, Heritage Destruction, and Universal Heritage: A Case
Study of Palmyra;
17. Collateral Damage: The Negative Side Effects of
Protecting Cultural Heritage in Conflict Related Situations;
18. Turning
Destruction into an Opportunity: Understanding the Construction of Timbuktus
success story by UNESCO;
19. Heritage Destruction from a Humanitarian
Perspective; Part 3 Expressions of Destruction --
20. Cultural Property
Destruction and Damage in Two World Wars;
21. Heritage Destruction and its
Impact in Scandinavia and the Baltic Region during the Second World War;
22.
Case Study: The Wars of Yugoslav Succession;
23. Cambodia: Gods Threatened by
the Art Market and Warfare;
24. Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Times of
Conflict: The Case of Syria;
25. Iraq: Creative Destruction and Cultural
Heritage in the Warscape;
26. Iraqi and Syrian Responses to Heritage
Destruction under the Islamic State: Genocide, Displacement, Reconstruction,
and Return;
27. Heritage Destruction in the Caucasus with a Specific Focus on
the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict;
28. Weaponised Heritage: Urbicide by
Construction and Destruction in Nablus, Palestine;
29. What is Happening to
Egyptian Heritage? The Case of Privately-owned Buildings;
30. Destruction,
Development, and Heritage in Melbourne: SX Towers, Southern Cross Hotel,
Eastern Market;
31. Case Study: The destruction of Australian Aboriginal
Heritage and its Implications for Indigenous Peoples Globally;
32.
Destruction of Heritage in Latin America; Part 4 Transformations
33.
Reconsidering Heritage Destruction and Sustainable Development in a Long-Term
Perspective.
José Antonio González Zarandona holds a PhD in Art History, Archaeology and Heritage Studies from the University of Melbourne. He has held fellowships from the British Academy and Columbia University. His latest book is Murujuga: Rock Art, Heritage and Landscape Iconoclasm (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020). Antonio researches the intersections between heritage, art, and media. He has published widely on heritage destruction and iconoclasm in Australia, Iraq, Syria, Myanmar, Mexico, videogames, and Google.
Emma Cunliffe holds a PhD in Archaeology from Durham University, where she studied site damage in Syria. She is a Senior Research Associate in the UNESCO Chair in Cultural Property Protection and Peace at Newcastle University (UK), most recently co-editing Safeguarding Cultural Property in the 1954 Hague Convention. All Possible Steps? (Boydell Press, 2022). She is also part of the Secretariat for Blue Shield International, an NGO dedicated to heritage protection in conflict and disaster and the Secretary for the UK National Committee. She teaches cultural property protection for students, heritage professionals, and armed forces, and provides expertise on military exercises.
Melathi Saldin is a Lecturer in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University, Australia. She has a PhD in Heritage Studies (Deakin University), a BA (Hons), and an MPhil in Archaeology (University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka). Melathis research looks at the politicisation of heritage and archaeology across Asia and the potential of heritage for resilience building in communities recovering from war and other forms of social upheaval. She is Co-Chair of the Sri Lanka ICOMOS National Scientific Committee on Intangible Cultural Heritage.
