- The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice
- About the Editors
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Public Heritage as Social Practice
- Creating Universal Value: The UNESCO World Heritage Convention in Its Fifth Decade
- The Suffocated Cultural Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Protected Areas
- Sustainable Conservation of Urban Heritage: The Contribution of Governance-Focused Studies
- Heritage and the Politics of Cooperation
- Culture, Heritage, and the Politics of Becoming
- Problematizing the Idea of Heritage Management
- Heritage and Management, Professional Utopianism, Administrative Naiveté, and Organizational Uncertainty at the Shipwrecks of Pisa
- Accounting for What We Treasure: Economic Valuation of Public Heritage
- Cultural Heritage: Capital, Commons, and Heritages
- Heritage as Remaking: Locating Heritage in the Contemporary World
- Culturally Reflexive Stewardship: Conserving Ways of Life
- Neoliberalism and the Equivocations of Empire
- Public Heritage and the Promise of the Digital
- On the Need for a Nuanced Understanding of “Community” in Heritage Policy and Practice
- “What Could Be More Reasonable?” Collaboration in Colonial Contexts
- The Special Responsibility of Public Spaces to Dismantle White Supremacist Historical Narratives
- Public Heritage as Transformative Experience: The Co-occupation of Place and Decision-Making
- The Social Sciences: What Role in Conservation?
- People in Place: Local Planning to Preserve Diverse Cultures
- Heritage as an Element of the Scenescape
- Contesting the Aesthetic Construction of Community: The New Suburban Landscape
- Agricultural Heritage and Conservation Beyond the Anthropocene
- Public Heritage in the Symbiocene
- Mapping Authenticity: Cognition and Emotion in Public Heritage
- Understanding Well-Being: A Mechanism for Measuring the Impact of Heritage Practice on Well-Being
- Effects of Conversations with Sites of Public Heritage on Collective Memory
- Intergenerational Learning: A Tool for Building and Transforming Cultural Heritage
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This chapter explores the contemporary significance of agricultural heritage, a concept in which the largely cultural and societal concerns for heritage preservation are shuffled into those related to nature conservation and the development of agriculture. Both heritage preservation and nature conservation cast mutually constitutive and relatively fixed ideas of past nature and culture into present and future. Agriculture, too, arrives heavily burdened with inherited meaning, as historically and materially it is “Exhibit A” in the powerful modern narrative of “Culture” gradually rising over “Nature.” In this context, agricultural heritage is almost automatically cast as a relic of the past ways of traditional peoples and their less efficient, less useful, pre-Modern natures. This chapter suggests instead that agricultural heritage represents one of humankind’s richest bodies of environmental experience and most successful manners of conveying knowledge through time, providing material examples of alternative knowledge of nature itself.
Keywords: agricultural heritage, conservation, Anthropocene, GIAHS, Earth System, environmental knowledge
Daniel Niles, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
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- The Oxford Handbook of Public Heritage Theory and Practice
- About the Editors
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Public Heritage as Social Practice
- Creating Universal Value: The UNESCO World Heritage Convention in Its Fifth Decade
- The Suffocated Cultural Heritage of Sub-Saharan Africa’s Protected Areas
- Sustainable Conservation of Urban Heritage: The Contribution of Governance-Focused Studies
- Heritage and the Politics of Cooperation
- Culture, Heritage, and the Politics of Becoming
- Problematizing the Idea of Heritage Management
- Heritage and Management, Professional Utopianism, Administrative Naiveté, and Organizational Uncertainty at the Shipwrecks of Pisa
- Accounting for What We Treasure: Economic Valuation of Public Heritage
- Cultural Heritage: Capital, Commons, and Heritages
- Heritage as Remaking: Locating Heritage in the Contemporary World
- Culturally Reflexive Stewardship: Conserving Ways of Life
- Neoliberalism and the Equivocations of Empire
- Public Heritage and the Promise of the Digital
- On the Need for a Nuanced Understanding of “Community” in Heritage Policy and Practice
- “What Could Be More Reasonable?” Collaboration in Colonial Contexts
- The Special Responsibility of Public Spaces to Dismantle White Supremacist Historical Narratives
- Public Heritage as Transformative Experience: The Co-occupation of Place and Decision-Making
- The Social Sciences: What Role in Conservation?
- People in Place: Local Planning to Preserve Diverse Cultures
- Heritage as an Element of the Scenescape
- Contesting the Aesthetic Construction of Community: The New Suburban Landscape
- Agricultural Heritage and Conservation Beyond the Anthropocene
- Public Heritage in the Symbiocene
- Mapping Authenticity: Cognition and Emotion in Public Heritage
- Understanding Well-Being: A Mechanism for Measuring the Impact of Heritage Practice on Well-Being
- Effects of Conversations with Sites of Public Heritage on Collective Memory
- Intergenerational Learning: A Tool for Building and Transforming Cultural Heritage
- Index
