Cultural Heritage and the Future 1st Edition by Cornelius Holtorf, Anders Högberg ISBN 9781317289531 1317289536

1 Introduction: Cultural heritage as a futuristic field

SECTION 1 The future in heritage studies and heritage management

2 Heritage practices as future-making practices

3 Heritage, thrift, and our children’s children

4 Perceptions of the future in preservation strategies: (Or: why Eyssl von Eysselsberg’s body is no longer taken across the lake)

5 The future and management of ICH in China from a legal perspective

SECTION 2 The future in cultural heritage

6 Decolonizing the future: Folk art environments and the temporality of heritage

7 The spectre of non-completion: An archaeological approach to half-built buildings

8 An archaeology of Cold War armageddonism through the lens of Scientology

9 Future visions and the heritage of space: Nostalgia for infinity

SECTION 3 Re-thinking heritage futures

10 What lies ahead?: Nuclear waste as cultural heritage of the future

11 The future in the past, the past in the future

12 Radioactive heritage of the future: A legacy of risk

SECTION 4 Heritage and future-making

13 Sustainability, intergenerational equity, and pluralism: Can heritage conservation create alternative futures?

14 Palliative curation and future persistence: Life after death

15 The future, atemporality, and heritage: “Yesterday’s tomorrow is not today”

16 Heritages of futures thinking: Strategic foresight and critical futures

17 Final reflections: The future of heritage

Index