Curated Decay : Heritage beyond Saving /

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Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to imperiled harbors, postindustrial ruins to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: DeSilvey, Caitlin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Historic sites > Conservation and restoration.
Cultural property > Protection.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Preservation historique > Philosophie.
Lieux historiques > Conservation et restauration.
Historic preservation > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Postpreservation : looking past loss
  • Memory's ecologies : curating mutability in Montana
  • When story meets the storm : unsafe harbor
  • Orderly decay : philosophies of non-intervention
  • A positive passivity : plants as entropic agents
  • Boundary work : nature-culture in practice
  • Palliative curation : the death of a lighthouse
  • Beyond saving : care without conservation.

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