Routledge Handbook of Heritage Ethics

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Ethics offers a comprehensive and rigorous analysis of theconcepts, challenges and dilemmas that characterise and shape contemporary heritage ethicsin theory and practice. The essays within this volume examine how ethical approaches to heritagehave evolved and explore the ethical issues that have arisen from these changing contexts.Including 34 original, detailed, and impassioned contributions from across five continents,this book affords equal focus to theoretical perspectives and practice, drawing out the importanceof ethics through diverse case studies on topics as varied as built heritage, colonialism,material culture, the environment, traditions and lived experience. Throughout this volume,chapters highlight the need for all practitioners and researchers to adopt an ethical approach,alongside the need to understand what this entails and how best to deliver it. Following a foundationalintroduction that contextualises ethics within broader cultural changes, and a first sectionoutlining key theoretical frameworks, chapters are divided into four thematic sections ondifficult heritage, digital heritage, heritage interactions and heritage management and policy.Together, these chapters comprise an important, timely and wide-ranging volume that providesa fresh analysis of the key concepts that shape and inform heritage ethics. It will engagethose whose work and interests intersect with the broad gamut of cultural heritage-whetherphysical or digital, focused on artefacts or communities, the iconic or the everyday, in the field,museums or historic sites, from the remote past or the contemporary world. This Handbook willbe of interest to students, researchers and practitioners from across a broad range of disciplines,including anthropology, archaeology, geography, heritage studies, history and philosophy.