Values in Heritage Management: Emerging Approaches and Research Directions

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Over the last four decades, heritage professionals have increasingly engaged in public participation processes that have required responding to the diverse concerns of stakeholder groups and related political, economic, and cultural dynamics. As definitions of what constitutes cultural heritage have expanded, norms of heritage practice and heritage management approaches have increasingly evolved to place values at their core. The shifting landscape has compelled the field to broaden its focus from traditionally accepted categories of cultural values—historic, artistic, aesthetic, and scientific—to include intangible aspects, social values, and economic benefits. New methods for eliciting and assessing heritage values and stakeholder engagement have therefore been developed. This volume, with contributions by sixteen leading international practitioners and scholars, considers how heritage relates to broader societal concerns including politics, cultural identities, economic trends, changing models of governance, and climate change and sustainability; reviews how values-based management approaches have been applied and adapted in a variety of geographic and cultural contexts; takes stock of emerging approaches to values in heritage practice and policy; identifies common needs and challenges; and proposes areas for developing approaches and future research to help improve conservation outcomes. Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Part I. Background 1. Introduction 2. Mapping the Issue of Values Part II. Perspectives from the Field 3. Spatializing Values in Heritage Conservation: The Potential of Cultural Mapping 4. Heritage Work: Understanding the Values, Applying the Values 5. The Shift toward Values in UK Heritage Practice 6. Understanding Values of Cultural Heritage within the Framework of Social Identity Conflicts 7. The Contemporary Values behind Chinese Heritage 8. Values-Based Management and the Burra Charter: 1979, 1999, 2013 9. Is Conservation of Cultural Heritage Halal? Perspectives on Heritage Values Rooted in Arabic-Islamic Traditions 10. Changing Concepts and Values in Natural Heritage Conservation: A View through IUCN and UNESCO Policies 11. Valuing Traumatic Heritage Places as Archives and Agents 12. Values and Relationships between Tangible and Intangible Dimensions of Heritage Places 13. The Paradox of Valuing the Invaluable: Managing Cultural Values in Heritage Places 14. Heritage Economics: Coming to Terms with Value and Valuation 15. From the Inside Looking Out: Indigenous Perspectives on Heritage Values Appendix. Conclusions and Recommendations of the Symposium Participants Further Readings in Heritage Values Symposium Participants Contributors