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"This book comprehensively analyses the UK law and non-law instruments that care for cultural heritage. Viewing the law as a community of care, working with other communities, brings new insights to our understanding of cultural heritage protection, making this book of interest to legal and heritage academics and practitioners"--
List of contents
1. Introduction; Part I. Imagining and Translating Cultural Heritage and Its Care: 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; Part II. Encouraging Flourishing and Averting Harm: 5. Creating communities of care - assuming responsibilities; 6. Quotidian care; 7. Navigating harm to cultural heritage; 8. The rhetoric of saving for the nation; Part III. Providing the Space to Resolve Dissonance: 9. Challenging the status quo: cultural heritage. care and justice; 10. Conclusion.
About the author
Charlotte Woodhead is Associate Professor at Warwick Law School, University of Warwick. Charlotte is a recognised expert in the restitution of cultural heritage, having been commissioned in 2018 by the United Kingdom's DCMS and the Spoliation Advisory Panel to write a report on elements of the 2017 London Conference Action Plan. Charlotte has also served as a member of the Museums Association Ethics Committee (2013–2019).
Summary
This book comprehensively analyses the UK law and non-law instruments that care for cultural heritage. Viewing the law as a community of care, working with other communities, brings new insights to our understanding of cultural heritage protection, making this book of interest to legal and heritage academics and practitioners.
Foreword
A re-evaluation of the UK's law on cultural heritage through the lens of the ethics of care.
