Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations

269 Pages·2018·6.395 MB·English

by  Cornelius Holtorf, Andreas Pantazatos, Geoffrey Scarre

CULTURAL HERITAGE, ETHICS AND
CONTEMPORARY MIGRATIONS
Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations breaks new ground in our under-
standing of the challenges faced by heritage practitioners and researchers in the
contemporary world of mass migration, where people encounter new cultural heri-
tage and relocate their own. It focuses particularly on issues affecting archaeological
heritage sites and artefacts, which help determine and maintain social identity, a role
problematised when populations are in flux. This diverse and authoritative collection
brings together international specialists to discuss socio-political and ethical implications
for the management of archaeological heritage in global society.
With contributions by authors from a range of disciplinary backgrounds,
including archaeologists, philosophers, cultural historians and custodians of cul-
tural heritage, the volume explores a rich mix of contrasting, yet complementary,
viewpoints and approaches. Among the topics discussed are the relations between
culture and identity; the potentialities of museums and monuments to support or
subvert a people’s sense of who they are; and how cultural heritage has been used
to bring together communities containing people of different origins and tradi-
tions, yet without erasing or blurring their distinctive cultural features.
Cultural Heritage, Ethics and Contemporary Migrations is a crucial text for archaeol-
ogists, curators, policymakers and others working in the heritage field, as well as for
philosophers, political scientists and other readers interested in the links between
immigration and cultural heritage.
Cornelius Holtorf is Professor of Archaeology and holds a UNESCO Chair on
Heritage Futures at Linnaeus University in Kalmar, Sweden. He also directs the
Graduate School in Contract Archaeology (GRASCA). In his research he is par-
ticularly interested in the significance of archaeology and heritage in present and
future societies.
Andreas Pantazatos is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department,
Parliamentary Academic Fellow, University College Fellow and Co-Director of
the Centre for the Ethics of Cultural Heritage at Durham University, UK. He is
also Research Associate at the Collaborative for Cultural Heritage Management
and Policy at the Department of Anthropology of the University of Illinois, USA.
His interests are philosophy of cultural heritage and archaeology, ethics of steward-
ship and trusteeship, epistemic injustice and museums, ethics of identity and politics
of the past (including post-war heritage reconstruction) and ethics of heritage and
immigration.
Geoffrey Scarre is a Professor in the Philosophy Department at Durham University,
UK. In recent years he has taught and published mainly in moral theory and applied
ethics. His books include Utilitarianism (1996), After Evil (2004), Death (2007) and
On Courage (2010), and he has co-edited two previous collections of papers on eth-
ics in archaeology. In 2009 he was a co-founder of the Durham University Centre
for the Ethics of Cultural Heritage.
CULTURAL HERITAGE,
ETHICS AND
CONTEMPORARY
MIGRATIONS
Edited by Cornelius Holtorf, Andreas
Pantazatos and Geoffrey Scarre
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Title: Cultural heritage, ethics and contemporary migrations / edited
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CONTENTS
List of figures vii
Notes on contributors ix
1 Introduction 1
Geoffrey Scarre, Cornelius Holtorf and Andreas Pantazatos
PART I
Things ‘r’ us: archaeological heritage as a preserver of
social identity 11
2 Cultural heritage, minorities and self-respect 13
Jonathan Seglow
3 Ancient places, new arrivals and the ethics of residence 27
Paul Gilbert
4 Foreign and native soils: migrants and the uses of landscape 39
Robert Seddon
5 Changing demographics and cultural heritage in Northern
Europe: transforming narratives and identifying
obstacles – a case study from Oslo, Norway 52
Christopher Prescott
6 Lasting value? Engaging with the material traces of
America’s undocumented migration “problem” 70
Jason De León and Cameron Gokee
vi Contents
PART II
Memory, migrants and museums 87
7 Concord migrations 89
Ivan Gaskell
8 Affiliative reterritorialization: the Manco Capac monument
and the Japanese community in Peru 110
Helaine Silverman
9 Heritage, participant perspective, epistemic injustice,
immigrants and identity formation 128
Andreas Pantazatos
PART III
Cultural heritage as an agent of integration 145
10 What is cross-cultural heritage? Challenges in identifying
the heritage of globalized citizens 147
Laia Colomer and Cornelius Holtorf
11 The uses of heroes: justice, Alexander, and the Macedonian
naming dispute 165
Michael Blake
12 Archaeological heritage and migration: well-being, place,
citizenship and the social 178
Margarita Díaz-Andreu
13 ‘Everybody’s different – and yet we’re all the same’: a
transcultural project in a multicultural class 195
Cynthia Dunning Thierstein
14 The place of the migrant: heritage and ethics in the
transnational space of a Sydney park 211
Denis Byrne
15 Sharing history: migration, integration and a
post-heritage future 228
Johan Hegardt
Index 244
FIGURES
6.1 Map of the Tucson Sector in Arizona showing the UMP study
area between the Nogales and Sasabe ports of entry 73
6.2 Discarded plastic bottle 75
6.3 State of Exception exhibit 77
6.4 Migrant material culture sold on Ebay 79
6.5 Map of clean-up efforts 81
8.1 (A) The Manco Capac monument. (B) Close-up of Manco
Capac statue. (Photos: Helaine Silverman) 112
8.2 The dedicatory plaque of the Japanese colony, placed on the
monument at the time of its inauguration in 1926. Note the
stylised pre-Columbian imagery of the plaque and the indigenista
style of lettering. (Photo: Helaine Silverman) 119
8.3 The Manco Capac monument is now surrounded by four walls
within which there will be an open-air museum. The museum is
advertised on the banner, but still had not opened as of June 6,
2015. (Photo: Helaine Silverman) 121
8.4 Three of the four sculptures of Inca kings and queens. These
four were all I had observed as of June 6, 2015. (Photo: Helaine
Silverman) 122
8.5 The four monoliths with their banners. From closest to farthest:
map of the Inca Empire; list of donors; announcement of the
open-air museum; the Inca ethical code. (Photo: Helaine
Silverman) 122
9.1 The relationship between epistemic injustice and heritage 134
viii Figures
9.2 Digital exhibit of a receipt for the money which was paid by
Smyrnian refugees to the Greek State towards the help they
received for their housing in the city of Athens, from the
Digital Museum of Smyrna and New Smyrna, Athens, Greece.
(Photo: author’s own) 135
9.3 Digital exhibit of a diary and guide to Smyrna from the Digital
Museum of Smyrna and New Smyrna, Athens, Greece.
(Photo: author’s own) 139
10.1 Cultural heritage in a world in movement. Portable City-Shenzhen,
installation of suitcase, used clothes, light, map, sound,
148 × 88 × 30 cm, 2008,  Yin Xuizhen. Reproduced
with permission of the artist 148
10.2 Cultural elements of significance for TCK collective identity 156
12.1 Participants at a school located in the old town centre of
Barcelona at the “Eating like Romans: panis et Moretum”
sensory workshop, 29 March 2007. (Photo: KuanUm) 188
12.2 Rua Xic being played at the Roman room, Museum of
Archaeology of Catalonia, on 22 November 2014. The actors
in the photograph come from Morocco, Roumania, Colombia,
England, Argentina and Catalonia. (Photo: Qian Gao) 190
13.1 Influence of educational inputs on the formative process. After
Bader, B. and R. Fibbi, 2013, p. 12 198
13.2 Children attributing the names of breads to the corresponding
illustrations. (Photo: Mathias Tschantré) 202
13.3 Map showing the places where the children came from. (Photo:
Mathias Tschantré) 203
13.4 Artistic bread: this one represents an imaginative form of the
Slovak emblem. (Photo: Mathias Tschantré) 204
13.5 Rehearsing the “bread rap”. (Photo: Cynthia Dunning
Thierstein) 205
14.1 Lebanese–Australians picnicking in Georges River
National Park. (Photo: Denis Byrne) 215
CONTRIBUTORS
Michael Blake is Professor of Philosophy, Public Policy and Governance at the
University of Washington, where he is appointed in the Department of Philosophy
and in the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Policy and Governance. He writes on
global justice and migration. His most recent book, written with Gillian Brock,
is entitled Debating Brain Drain: May Governments Restrict Emigration? (Oxford
University Press, 2013). He is currently writing a book on the relationship between
justice, migration and the virtue of mercy.
Denis Byrne is a research fellow at the Institute of Culture and Society, Western
Sydney University, Australia. He is an archaeologist who has worked both in the
government and academic spheres of heritage conservation and has been a time
contributor to critical debates on the practices of archaeology and heritage conserva-
tion in Southeast Asia and Australia. He is author of Surface Collection: Archaeological
Travels in Southeast Asia (2007), and Counter Heritage: Critical Perspectives on Heritage
Conservation in Asia (2014). His current research interests include a study of the
China–Australia migration heritage corridor.
Laia Colomer is an archaeologist with extensive professional and academic expe-
rience in archaeological heritage management and public archaeology. The
question currently driving her research focuses on how particular heritage com-
munities use and develop cultural heritage to reinforce or redefine their iden-
tity in an increasingly globalised world. She was educated in Barcelona (PhD in
Prehistory Archaeology, Autonomous University of Barcelona) and in London
(MA in Public Archaeology, University College London). She has combined an
academic career in the Netherlands, the UK, Spain and Sweden, with a profes-
sional career in cultural heritage management in Spain and Italy, including in both
paths several European Commission projects. Currently Colomer is a researcher in
the Archaeology Department, Linnaeus University, Sweden.