1st Edition
Rethinking Heritage in Precarious Times Coloniality, Climate Change, and Covid-19
Introduction: Rethinking heritage in precarious times.
Nick Shepherd
SECTION 1: ‘The Heritage through my Window’ and Stateless Heritage
Chapter 1 The Heritage through my Window: Some reflections on teaching in the Brazilian Amazon during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Marcia Bezerra
Chapter 2 Covid Heritage Imperatives as New Pharmacologies of Care: Revelations of ‘Heritage Beyond Power’ and ‘What Makes Life Worth Living’.
Beverly Butler
SECTION 2: More-than-human Heritage
Chapter 3 Heritage and Posthumanism: Seeking harmony in a precarious and unstable world.
John Schofield and J. Kelechi Ugwuanyi
Chapter 4 River Love: Decolonizing heritage along the Meuse.
Christian Ernsten
SECTION 3: Climate Action and the Anthropocene
Chapter 5 The Speculative and the Profane: Reimagining heritage and museums for climate action.
Rodney Harrison and Colin Sterling
Chapter 6 Towards a World Heritage for the Anthropocene
Cornelius Holtorf
SECTION 4: Heritage Violence and Extractivism
Chapter 7 Rural Landscapes, Extraction and Heritage Violence in the Middle East.
Ömür Harmanşah
Chapter 8 Reckoning with Extractivism: Towards an Anti-Colonial Heritage.
Emma Waterton, Hayley Saul and Divya P. Tolia-Kelly
SECTION 5: Anti-Racism, People’s Heritage, and ‘Difficult Heritage at the Door’
Chapter 9 Heritage, Social Justice and Black Lives Matter in Ireland during Covid-19.
Laura McAtackney
Chapter 10 A People’s Heritage: Engaging the traumas of marginalization.
Christopher N. Matthews
Chapter 11 Difficult Heritage at the Door: Doing heritage research in precarious times.
Duane Jethro and Sharon Macdonald
SECTION 6: Coloniality, Peace Building, and Social Justice
Chapter 12 Entries in an Apocryphal Diary: Heritage, crisis, turbulent times.
Cristóbal Gnecco
Chapter 13 Heritage, Reconciliation and Peacebuilding in Australia and New Zealand.
Cressida Fforde, Steve Hemming, Merata Kawharu, Lia Kent, Laura Mayer, Daryle Rigney, Laurajane Smith and Paul Tapsell
SECTION 7: Unsettled Urbanisms and Emergent Internationalisms
Chapter 14 Unsettling the Heritage of Urbanity: Urbanism and urban spaces in pandemic times.
Sybille Frank, Georg Krajewsky and Jochen Schwenk
Chapter 15 Covid-19, Black Lives Matter and Heritage Futures.
Tim Winter
SECTION 8: Heritage Futures and ‘News from Nowhere’
Chapter 16 Covid-19 and Heritage in Southern Africa: Precariousness, resilience, and the future of heritage.
Jesmael Mataga
Chapter 17 Dreaming of Utopia in Times of Trouble: Nowherian heritage inspiration and radical nostalgia during lockdown.
David C. Harvey
Conclusion: When the taps run dry.
Nick Shepherd
Biography
Nick Shepherd is an associate professor of heritage studies at Aarhus University, Denmark, and an extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
