Heritage Ecologies are attracting increasing attention across the humanities and the social and environmental sciences as individuals and different publics consider the consequences of ongoing global warming, globalisation, species extinctions and the loss of biodiversity. A central concern of this theme is the dismantling of deep-rooted nature:culture divides in favour of more holistic theoretical frames that recognise that the “cultural” and the “natural/biophysical” components of any landscape or process are mutually constituted through complex, dynamic and interactive relationships over the long-term. The theme explores the intersection of Indigenous and ‘traditional’ knowledge systems and practices, memory, landscape values, social and political constructions of culture and nature, land rights and social justice, and our ethical responsibilities to other species. Particular focus is placed on identify the contributions that tangible and intangible heritage can make to creating sustainable and resilient societies and devising means of demonstrating and implementing these in ways that go beyond a narrow focus on ‘heritage tourism’.
Partner, Cambridge Heritage Research Centre
Disney Professor of Archaeology
Head of the Department of Archaeology
Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Deputy Director, Cambridge Heritage Research Centre
Reader in Regional Transformation and Economic Security, Department of Land Economy
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Deputy Director, Cambridge Heritage Research Centre
Assistant Director of Research, Department of Archaeology
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Partner, Cambridge Heritage Research Centre
Jennifer Ward Oppenheimer Professor of the Deep History and Archaeology of Africa
Partner, Cambridge Heritage Research Centre
Research Associate, Scott Polar Research Institute. Historian and social scientist.
ICOMOS International Committee on Risk Preparedness (ICORP), Expert member
ICOMOS International Polar Heritage Committee (IPHC), Secretary-General
Senior Research Associate, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Project Coordinator (Arcadia MAHSA)
Research Associate (Fitzwilliam Museum)
Visiting Scholar, Cambridge Heritage Research Centre
Associate Professor, Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University
Director, Cambridge Heritage Research Centre
Associate Professor in Heritage and the Politics of the Past, Department of Archaeology
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