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ABOUT THE BOOK

Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations breaks new ground in our understanding of the challenges faced by heritage practitioners and researchers in the contemporary world of mass migration, where people encounter new cultural heritage and relocate their own. It focuses particularly on issues affecting archaeological heritage sites and artefacts, which help determine and maintain social identity, a role problematised when populations are in flux. This diverse and authoritative collection brings together international specialists to discuss socio-political and ethical implications for the management of archaeological heritage in global society.

With contributions by authors from a range of disciplinary backgrounds, including archaeologists, philosophers, cultural historians and custodians of cultural heritage, the volume explores a rich mix of contrasting, yet complementary, viewpoints and approaches. Among the topics discussed are the relations between culture and identity; the potentialities of museums and monuments to support or subvert a people’s sense of who they are; and how cultural heritage has been used to bring together communities containing people of different origins and traditions, yet without erasing or blurring their distinctive cultural features.

LIST OF CONTENT                                          

1. Introduction

Geoffrey Scarre, Cornelius Holtorf and Andreas Pantazatos

PART ONE. THINGS ‘R’ US: ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE AS A PRESERVER OF SOCIAL IDENTITY

2. Cultural heritage, minorities and self-respect

Jonathan Seglow

3. Ancient places, new arrivals and the ethics of residence

Paul Gilbert

4. Foreign and native soils: migrants and the uses of landscape

Robert Seddon

5. Changing demographics in Northern Europe: transforming narratives and identifying obstacles – a case study from Oslo, Norway

Christopher Prescott

6. Lasting value? Engaging with the material traces of America’s undocumented migration "problem"

Jason De Léon and Cameron Gokee 　

PART TWO. MEMORY, MIGRANTS AND MUSEUMS

7. Concord migrations

Ivan Gaskell

8. Affiliative reterritorialization: the Manco Capac statue and the Japanese community in Peru

Helaine Silverman

9. Heritage, participant perspective epistemic injustice, immigrants and identity formation

Andreas Pantazatos

PART THREE. CULTURAL HERITAGE AS AN AGENT OF INTEGRATION

10. What is cross-cultural heritage? Challenges in identifying the heritage of globalized citizens

Laia Colomer and Cornelius Holtorf

11. The uses of heroes: justice, Alexander, and the Macedonian naming dispute

Michael Blake

12. Archaeological heritage and migration: well-being, place, citizenship and the social

Marga Diaz-Andreu

13. ‘Everyone’s different but we are all the same’: a transcultural project in a multicultural class

Cynthia Dunning

14. The place of the migrant: heritage in the transnational space of a Sydney park

Denis Byrne

15. Sharing history: migration, integration and a post-heritage future

Johan Hegardt