Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations

Cornelius Holtorf is Professor of Archaeology and holds a UNESCO Chair on Heritage Futures at Linnaeus University in Kalmar, Sweden. He also directs the Graduate School in Contract Archaeology (GRASCA). In his research he is particularly interested in the significance of archaeology and heritage in present and future societies. Andreas Pantazatos is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department, Parliamentary Academic Fellow, University College Fellow and Co-Director of the Centre for the Ethics of Cultural Heritage at Durham University. He is also Research Associate at the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management and Policy at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Illinois, USA. His interests are philosophy of cultural heritage and archaeology, ethics of stewardship and trusteeship, epistemic injustice and museums, ethics of identity and politics of the past (including post-war heritage reconstruction) and ethics of heritage and immigration. Geoffrey Scarre is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at Durham University. In recent years he has taught and published mainly in moral theory and applied ethics. His books include Utilitarianism (1996), After Evil (2004), Death (2007) and On Courage (2010), and he has co-edited two previous collections of papers on ethics in archaeology. In 2009 he was a co-founder of the Durham University Centre for the Ethics of Cultural Heritage.

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Notes on contributors

1. Introduction

Geoffrey Scarre, Cornelius Holtorf and Andreas Pantazatos

PART ONE. THINGS ‘R’ US: ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE AS A PRESERVER OF SOCIAL IDENTITY

2. Cultural heritage, minorities and self-respect

Jonathan Seglow

3. Ancient places, new arrivals and the ethics of residence

Paul Gilbert

4. Foreign and native soils: migrants and the uses of landscape

Robert Seddon

5. Changing demographics in Northern Europe: transforming narratives and identifying obstacles – a case study from Oslo, Norway

Christopher Prescott

6. Lasting value? Engaging with the material traces of America’s undocumented migration "problem"

Jason De Léon and Cameron Gokee

PART TWO. MEMORY, MIGRANTS AND MUSEUMS

7. Concord migrations

Ivan Gaskell

8. Affiliative reterritorialization: the Manco Capac statue and the Japanese community in Peru

Helaine Silverman

9. Heritage, participant perspective epistemic injustice, immigrants and identity formation

Andreas Pantazatos

PART THREE. CULTURAL HERITAGE AS AN AGENT OF INTEGRATION

10. What is cross-cultural heritage? Challenges in identifying the heritage of globalized citizens

Laia Colomer and Cornelius Holtorf

11. The uses of heroes: justice, Alexander, and the Macedonian naming dispute

Michael Blake

12. Archaeological heritage and migration: well-being, place, citizenship and the social

Marga Diaz-Andreu

13. ‘Everyone’s different but we are all the same’: a transcultural project in a multicultural class

Cynthia Dunning

14. The place of the migrant: heritage in the transnational space of a Sydney park

Denis Byrne

15. Sharing history: migration, integration and a post-heritage future

Johan Hegardt

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