Modern Ruins in the Age of Sustainability
Author(s): Mats Burstrom
Year: 2013
Summary
Preservation is an essential part of heritage management; sites and monuments are protected in order to be kept intact for the future. Accordingly site managers encounter difficulties dealing with sites whose foremost qualities are the processes of change and decay that they are undergoing. It would seem that cultural heritage should be forever or not at all. The belief in this kind of ‘eternal’ perspective is in no way new, but the present preoccupation with sustainability has reinforced it and placed it in a new discourse. Some of the problems which follow from this perspective are accentuated when dealing with modern ruins. Their lure is often related to the gradual disintegration of the familiar, the very process that must be stopped if the remains are to be preserved.
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Modern Ruins in the Age of Sustainability. Mats Burstrom. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428612)
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Keywords
General
decay
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eternity
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Preservation
Geographic Keywords
Sweden
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Western Europe
Temporal Keywords
20th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: 11.113; min lat: 55.34 ; max long: 24.167; max lat: 69.06 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 259