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  • Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage

    Awareness of the significance of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) has recently grown, due to the promotional efforts of UNESCO and its Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003). However, the increased recognition of intangible heritage has brought to light its undervalued status within the museum and heritage sector, and raised questions about safeguarding ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Displaced Heritage

    Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss

    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 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Heritage, Museums and Galleries

    An Introductory Reader

    Edited by Gerard Corsane ...
    Bringing the reader the very best of modern scholarship from the heritage community, this comprehensive reader outlines and explains the many diverse issues that have been identified and brought to the fore in the field of heritage, museums and galleries over the past couple of decades.The volume is divided into four parts:presents overviews and useful starting points for critical ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Museum Revolutions

    How museums change and are changed

    This single-volume museum studies reference title explores the ways in which museums are shaped and configured and how they themselves attempt to shape and change the world around them.Written by a leading group of museum professionals and academics from around the world and including new research, the chapters reveal the diverse and subtle means by which museums engage and in so doing change and ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Practice

    Edited by Steve Brown, Cari Goetcheus ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Cultural landscapes, which in the field of heritage studies and practice relates to caring for and safeguarding heritage landscapes, is a concept embedded in contemporary conservation. Heritage conservation has shifted from an historical focus on buildings, city centres, and archaeological sites to encompass progressively more diverse forms of heritage and increasingly larger geographic areas, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Landscape Character Assessment

    Current Approaches to Characterisation and Assessment

    In this multi-authored book, senior practitioners and researchers offer an international overview of landscape character approaches for those working in research, policy and practice relating to landscape.Over the last three decades, European practice in landscape has moved from a narrow, if relatively straightforward, focus on natural beauty or scenery to a much broader concept of landscape ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Cultural Heritage and Tourism

    An Introduction

    Series Book 7 - Aspects of Tourism Texts
    Comprehensive coverage of international cultural heritage tourism management.Cultural heritage is one of the most important tourism resources in the world. This book provides a comprehensive theoretical overview and applied knowledge of the issues, practices, current debates, concepts and management concerns associated with cultural heritage-based tourism.The second edition has been updated to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • First Knowledges Design

    Building on Country

    Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • The Historic Urban Landscape

    Managing Heritage in an Urban Century

    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation. The authors offer unique insights from UNESCO's World Heritage Centre and the book is richly illustrated with colour photographs. Examples are drawn from urban heritage sites worldwide from Timbuktu to Liverpool to demonstrate key issues and best practice in urban conservation today. The book offers ... Read more

    $62.00 USD

  • Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene

    In this era of climate crisis, in which our very futures are at stake, sustainability is a global imperative. Yet we tend to associate sustainability, nature, and the environment with distant places, science, and policy. The truth is that everything is environmental, from transportation to taxes, work to love, cities to cuisine.This book is the first to examine contemporary Singapore from an ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics

    Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum

    Edited by Janet Marstine ...
    Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics is a theoretically informed reconceptualization of museum ethics discourse as a dynamic social practice central to the project of creating change in the museum. Through twenty-seven chapters by an international and interdisciplinary group of academics and practitioners it explores contemporary museum ethics as an opportunity for growth, rather than a burden of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Home

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and within countries, populations are constantly on the move, seeking better opportunities and living conditions, or an escape from violence and war. In spite ... Read more

    $7.99 USD