Main entry:

Goldewijk, Berma Klein, editor.

Title & Author:

Cultural emergency in conflict and disaster / edited by Berma Klein Goldewijk, Georg Frerks and Els van der Plas.

Publication:

Rotterdam : NAI Publishers, [2011]
© 2011

Description:

399 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Why Cultural Emergency? -- Wisdom, Devotion and Modesty: Culture in Humanitarian Emergency Response / Jan Pronk -- Dilemmas of Heritage Protection / David Lowenthal -- Photo Essay The Gingerbread Houses of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2010 -- pt. TWO Cultural Emergency in Conflict -- The Destruction of Culture: Why Beauty Must be Saved / Els van der Plas -- Rock Art Preservation, Vandalism and Looting of Ancient Rock Art in Morocco and the Air Mountains, Niger / Terry Little -- War and Archaeological Heritage: Lessons from Lebanon, Kuwait and Iraq / Selma Al-Radi and McGuire Gibson -- Thieves of Bagdad: The Global Traffic in Stolen Iraqi Antiquities / Matthew F. Bogdanos -- Looting and Recovery of Afghanistan's Heritage: The History of the National Museum / Omara Khan Massoudi -- The Impact of Civil War and Complex Emergencies on Contemporary African Populations and Cultural Heritage / Boureima T. Diamitani
Note continued: Photo Essay The Stabilization of the Hafezji Mosque and the Yu Aw Synagogue in Herat, Afghanistan, 2007 -- Identity, Cultural Heritage and Ethnoreligious Conflict in Jammu and Kashmir / Aparna Tandon -- pt. THREE Cultural Emergency in International Law -- Protection of Cultural Heritage in Emergencies: Responses of International Law / Jiri Toman -- Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict and the Role of Unesco / Jan Hladík -- Photo Essay Cultural Emergency Relief for Stricken Heritage in Daw'an, Yemen, 2008 -- pt. FOUR Cultural Emergency Response and Reconstruction -- The Centrality of Culture in Post-Disaster Reconstruction / Anthony Oliver-Smith -- Heritage Emergency Response in Indonesia: Recovery and Sustainability after Disaster / Catrini Pratihari Kubontubuh -- Underwater Archeology in Sri Lanka after the Tsunami / Robert Parthesius and H.D.F. Hettipathirana
Note continued: Photo Essay Rehabilitation of Monastic and Theatrical Heritage in Myanmar after Cyclone Nargis, 2008 -- Building Maintenance and Disaster Response Strategies: The Philippine Architectural Heritage / Arnulfo Fajardo Dado -- The Restoration of the University of Baghdad's Central Library / Wishyar Muhammed -- Photo Essay The Manasir Heritage Rescue Survey, Sudan, 2009 -- Listing Lasting Legacies: A Cultural Heritage Inventory of Earthquake-Devastated Areas in Pakistan / Yasmin Cheema, Amina Kahn and Tanya Aydelott -- Urbicide in Nablus: Social Resilience and the Remaking of Space in the Post-Disaster Environment / Nurhan Abujidi -- pt. FIVE Culture in Emergency Relief -- Cultural Emergency Response: At the Crossroads of Cultural Heritage and Humanitarianism / Iwana Chronis, Louk de la Rive Box and Eléonore de Merode -- Photo Essay Disaster Relief for Cultural Heritage -- Positioning Culture in Humanitarian Emergency Relief / Georg Frerks.

Summary:

The guiding principle of "Cultural emergency in conflict and disaster" is that culture is a basic need. International heritage specialists, relief workers and politicians discuss the importance of protecting cultural heritage that is threatened by war and calamity, as well as thesignificance of culture as a positive force in the process of recovering from catastrophes and the rebuilding of the communities affected. Reports about projects in conflict zones are alternated with contributions about international administrative and legal aspects, political dimensions and sociocultural perspectives. The result is both an indictment of the senseless destruction of cultural heritage and an unflinching argument for culture as a fundamental factor in the rebuilding and restoration of societies that have been afflicted by conflict and catastrophe.

ISBN:

9789056628178 (paperback)
9056628178 (paperback)

Subject:

Cultural property Protection.
Historic sites Conservation and restoration.
Monuments Conservation and restoration.
Historic preservation.
Lieux historiques Conservation et restauration.
Monuments Conservation et restauration.
Préservation historique.
historic preservation.
Gewalt.
Konflikt.
Kunst.
Zerstörung.

Added entries:

Frerks, Georg, 1954- editor.
Plas, Els van der, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 315940
Call No.: 315940
Copy: 1
Status: Available