The Routledge handbook of heritage destruction

List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- A path well worn? Approaches for the old problem of heritage destruction / José Antonio González Zarandona, Emma Cunliffe, and Melathi Saldin -- Heritage destruction in conflict / Claire Smith -- Talking about heritage destruction in market countries / Erin L. Thompson -- Destruction of cultural heritage in peacetime and international law / Lucas Lixinski -- Development of the Law of Armed Conflict as applied to cultural heritage / Patty Gerstenblith -- Heritage destruction and human rights / Federico Lenzerini -- Heritage destruction and genocide: legal resistance, conceptual resiliency / Elisa Novic -- Methods, motivations, and actors: a risk-based approach to heritage destruction and protection / Emma Cunliffe -- Heritage destruction, natural disasters, and the environment: geological disasters / Tom Dawson -- Heritage destruction, natural disasters, and the environment: atmospheric disasters / Tom Dawson -- Flooded Heritage: The Impact of Dams on Archaeological Sites / Nicolò Marchetti and Federico Zaina -- On destruction in art and film / Stacy Boldrick -- Between heritage and the readymade-the imminent aesthetic of Ai Weiwei / José Antonio González Zarandona -- Heritage predation and the pursuit of politics / Mehiyar Kathem -- Post-conflict recovery challenges: affect and heritage in post-conflict Cyprus and Italy / Olga Demetriou and Elena Miltiadis -- Media narratives, heritage destruction, and universal heritage: a case study of Palmyra / Christopher W. Jones -- Collateral damage: the negative side effects of protecting cultural heritage in conflict related situations / Frederik Rosén -- Turning destruction into an opportunity: understanding the construction of Timbuktu's 'success story' by UNESCO / Mathilde Leloup -- Heritage destruction from a humanitarian perspective / Jennifer Price-Jones -- Cultural property destruction and damage in two World Wars / Nigel Pollard -- Heritage destruction and its impact in Scandinavia and the Baltic Region during the Second World War / Mattias Legnér -- Case study: the Wars of Yugoslav Succession / Helen Walasek -- Cambodia: gods threatened by the art market and warfare / Angela S. Chiu, Helena M. Arose, and Ben B. Evans -- Destruction of cultural heritage in times of conflict: the case of Syria / Nour Munawar -- Iraq: creative destruction and cultural heritage in the Warscape / Zainab Bahrani -- Iraqi and Syrian responses to heritage destruction under the Islamic State: genocide, displacement, reconstruction, and return / Benjamin Isakhan and James Barry -- Heritage destruction in the Caucasus with a specific focus on the Armenia Azerbaijan conflict / Ali Mozaffari and James Barry -- Weaponised heritage: urbicide by construction and destruction in Nablus, Palestine / Nurhan Abujidi -- What is happening to Egyptian heritage? the case of privately-owned buildings / Mohamed Kenawi -- Destruction, development, and heritage in Melbourne: SX Towers, Southern Cross Hotel, Eastern Market / James Lesh and David Nichols -- Case study: the destruction of Australian Aboriginal heritage and its implications for Indigenous Peoples globally / Jillian Huntley and Lynley A. Wallis -- Destruction of heritage in Latin America / María Isabel Hernández Llosas -- Reconsidering heritage destruction and sustainable development in a long term perspective / Cornelius Holtorf and Troels Myrup Kristensen -- Index.

"The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Destruction presents a comprehensive view on the destruction of cultural heritage and offers insights into this multifaceted, interdisciplinary phenomenon; the methods scholars have used to study it; and the results these various methods have produced. By juxtaposing theoretical and legal frameworks and conceptual contexts alongside a wide distribution of geographical and temporal case studies, this book throws light upon the risks, and the realizations, of art and heritage destruction. Exploring the variety of forces that drive the destruction of heritage, the volume also contains contributions that consider what forms heritage destruction takes and in which contexts and circumstances it manifests. Contributors, including local scholars, also consider how these drivers and contexts change, and what effect this has on heritage destruction and how we conceptualise it. Overall, the book establishes the importance of the need to study the destruction of art and cultural heritage within a wider framework that encompasses not only theory, but also legal, military, social, and ontological issues. The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Destruction will contribute to the development of a more complete understanding and analysis of heritage destruction The Handbook will be useful to academics, students and professionals with an interest in heritage, conservation and preservation, history and art history, archaeology, anthropology, philosophy and law"--