1st Edition

War and the Historic Environment The Effect of Conflict from Front Line Ukraine to Historic Namibia

Edited By Michael Dawson Copyright 2024
322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

This book explores how societies deal with the effects of war on the historic environment. Written by historians, archaeologists, and conservation professionals, it offers a dramatic perspective on the war in Ukraine. It reveals the truth behind the Kremlin’s ‘just war’ narrative and touches on the complex relationship between war, society and the historic environment with examples of heritage... Read more

Introduction: War and the Historic Environment

Michael Dawson

 

Part I: Frontline Ukraine

 

1. The Fight for the Past: Contested Heritage and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Christoph Mick

 

2. Empires of Lies? The Political Uses of Cultural Heritage in War

Nour A. Munawar and James Symonds

 

3. Russia was ‘Doomed to Expand [its] Aggression’ Against Ukraine: Cultural Property Criminals’ Responses to the Invasion and Occupation of the Donbas Since 20th February 2014

Sam Hardy and Serhii Telizhenko

 

4. Monumental Decisions: The Impact of the Russo-Ukrainian War on Soviet War Memorials

Mark Dunkley

 

5. Archaeological Monitoring in War-Torn Ukraine

Pavlo S. Shydlovskyi, Serhii A. Telizhenko and Vsevolod H. Ivakin

 

Part II: Aspects of War

 

6. A Reluctance Acceptance: the USA and the Hague Convention of 1954

Paul Hardin Kapp

 

7. ‘Heritage Under Fire’: The Office of Works and Historic Monuments in Wartime

Sebastian Fry

 

8. Museums and Museumification in Post-Conflict Contexts: Revisiting the Shaping of Architectural Reconstruction Strategies

Reyhan Sabri, Danah AlGharee and Noora Alkhaja

 

9. ‘Lest We Forget’: The Archaeology of Warfare, Conservation, Interpretation, and Engagement in Hull and the East Riding of Yorkshire

Richard Newman

 

10. Empty Spaces, Buried Crimes: Post-Conflict Bosnia-Herzegovina

Helen Walasek

 

11. Mass Graves: The Forensic Investigation of the Deaths, Destruction and Deletion of Communities and Their Heritage

Ian Hanson

 

12. Understanding Liminality and Intangible Difficult Heritage through Film

Joel Haikali and Stephen Dobson

 

Conclusion

Michael Dawson

Biography

Michael Dawson is the Editor of The Historic Environment: Policy & Practice, lectures in the Department of Continuing Education, and is a member of the common room at Kellogg College, University of Oxford, UK. He is a former Heritage Consultant at RPS and Chair of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologist. He has published widely including the recent ‘Heritage Under Pressure’, an important collection of papers looking at threats and solutions to conservation issues in the historic environment.