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Cultural Heritage in Modern Conflict: Past, Propaganda, Parade book cover

1st Edition

Cultural Heritage in Modern Conflict Past, Propaganda, Parade

Edited By Timothy Clack, Mark Dunkley Copyright 2023
344 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

344 Pages 33 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This edited volume offers an in-depth study of heritage and warfare from the perspective of defence studies. The book focuses on how, in different contexts, heritage can be a catalyst and target of conflict, an obstacle to stabilisation, and a driver of peace-building. It documents the changing role of heritage – in terms of both exploitation and protection – in various military capabilities,... Read more

Foreword

General Sir Richard Barrons

Preface

Introduction: Culture, Heritage, Conflict

Part I: The Past on Parade

1.Heritage and the (Re)shaping of Social Identities　in Conflict Cycles: Anchor or Quicksand?

Dacia Viejo Rose

2. Napoleon, Savants, and the Description de l’Égypte: Capturing History

Andrew Shortland

3. Military Cultural Property Protection from Hague 1907 to Hague 1954

Nigel Pollard

4. Cultural Property Protection in the 21st Century: The Privilege of Working with the Most Deployed Division

Laurie Rush

Part II: The Past as Propaganda

5. Islamic Terrorist Targeting of Contemporary Western Culture: ‘Deviant Chaos’

Suzanne Raine

6. The Russian Weaponization of Cultural Heritage

Mark Dunkley and Timothy Clack

7. Heritage as Focus in US-Iran tensions: Implications for Aspects of Culture and Power in Modern Warfare

Timothy Clack, Mark Dunkley, Toby Gane, and Lee Rotherham

Part III: The Past as Peacekeeper

8. Museums and the Restitution of ‘Spoils of War’

Jacques Schuhmacher

9. Cultural Property Protection: The Work of the Blue Shield

Peter Stone

10. Cultural Heritage and Peacebuilding in Rakhine State, Myanmar

Etienne Berges

11. An Excavation of the Bullecourt Battlefield: From Mud Through Blood to the Green Fields Beyond?

Richard Osgood, Ministry of Defence, UK

Part IV: The Practice of Protection

12. Integrating Cultural Heritage into Civil Affairs Operations: Reinventing the Monuments Men and Women for the 21st Century Force

Colonel Scott DeJesse and Lieutenant Colonel Michael Delacruz

13. Rescuing Heritage in ‘Natural’ Disasters

Corine Wegener

14. Culture, heritage, security: an interview with Colonel Rosie Stone, Captain Mark Waring, Major Anne Seton-Sykes, and Major Luke Wattam

Timothy Clack and Mark Dunkley

Biography

Timothy Clack is the Chingiz Gutseriev Fellow at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME) and Dean of Reuben College, University of Oxford, UK. He is general editor of the Routledge Advances in Defence Studies (RAiDS) book series and co-editor, with Robert Johnson, of The World Information War (2021), Before Military Intervention (2018) and At the End of Military Intervention (2015).

Mark Dunkley is a professional archaeologist specialising in the management of underwater cultural heritage. He has investigated archaeological sites across the UK, overseas and underwater, and has published widely on cultural heritage protection. He is a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, a visiting fellow at Cranfield University, and an adviser to UNESCO UK.

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