ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|92 pages
Understanding Destruction
chapter 8|17 pages
Methods, Motivations, and Actors
part II|128 pages
Manifestations of Destruction
chapter 1289|9 pages
Heritage Destruction, Natural Disasters, and the Environment
chapter 10|9 pages
Heritage Destruction, Natural Disasters, and the Environment
chapter 15|11 pages
Post-Conflict Recovery Challenges
chapter 16|11 pages
Media Narratives, Heritage Destruction, and Universal Heritage
chapter 17|12 pages
Collateral Damage
chapter 18|12 pages
Turning Destruction into an Opportunity
part III|156 pages
Transformation of Destruction
chapter 26|11 pages
Iraqi and Syrian Responses to Heritage Destruction Under the Islamic State
chapter 28|14 pages
Weaponised Heritage
chapter 30|12 pages
Destruction, Development and Heritage in Melbourne
chapter 31|11 pages
Case Study
part IV|13 pages
Epilogue