Caring for Cultural Heritage

An Integrated Approach to Legal and Ethical Initiatives in the United Kingdom

Charlotte Woodhead

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2023
• Topic: Law
• eBook ISBN:
  9781108597586
• Subtopic: Law Theory & Practice
• Index: Law

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Introduction
• 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
• 5 Creating Communities of Care
• 6 Quotidian Care
• 7 Navigating Harm to Cultural Heritage
• 8 The Rhetoric of Saving for the Nation
• 9 Challenging the Status quo: Cultural Heritage, Care and Justice
• 10 Conclusion
• Index