Articulating Loss: A Thematic Framework for Understanding Coastal Heritage Transformations

This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this recordThe coast is a dynamic landscape characterised by change. Although coastal change can provide opportunities to engage with the past as archaeological sites are exposed and uncovered, it also means that climate change pressures are likely to exacerbate and accelerate the inevitable loss of coastal heritage. Many projects and initiatives focus on protecting and saving threatened sites, but there has been less attention to developing tools that will help the heritage profession manage and communicate about loss. New strategies are needed to help heritage professionals engage with communities confronted with the vulnerability of valued coastal heritage sites, and to counter perceptions of mismanagement and misunderstanding. This paper aims to develop language to better articulate the ways in which change and loss are likely to be experienced at coastal heritage sites, so that the challenges and opportunities presented by each situation may be fully appreciated by heritage managers and communities navigating these changes. It does not address the question of how to preserve and protect, but conversely seeks to explore how to respond to and understand loss.Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC

Heritages of (De)colonialism: Reflections from the Pacific Northwest Coast, Canada

This is the author accepted manuscript.Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC

Gifting Together and Gifting Back: A Pluriphony of Postcards

This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this recordThis co-edited series of postcards is a practice-research output of the project 'Gifting Together and Gifting Back', funded by the UBC Research Cluster in Culture, Creativity, Health and Well-Being. In collaboration with the Kumugwe Cultural Society (Canada) and MED Theatre (Devon, UK), and through theatre, dance and song workshops, museum visits and formal/informal interviews, this project explored the practice of co-learning and international intergenerational reciprocal exchange. We were interested in exploring wellbeing in relationship to difficult histories, land, environment, art-making, voice and collaboration

The Politics of Space Heritage: Colonising and Exploiting the Final Frontier

This is the author accepted manuscript.In 1979, members of the United Nations set the precedent that the exploration of space and the celestial bodies within it should be peaceful and for the good of all humanity. However, in the twenty-first Century, Western political, cultural, and economic attitudes towards our ‘common heritage’ could not be further from this statement. This chapter examines the heritage of space exploration while considering the colonial legacies and cultural and political implications for those who do not see themselves represented in this primarily White, male, and American field. Space heritage currently reflects social inequalities seen on Earth: inequalities that are being exacerbated by the climate emergency. One response to this is to turn to the stars in hopes of securing the future of humanity but is often manifested in ways that seem to echo, if not directly repeat, the actions that have caused the need for such adaptation strategies. The chapter takes an interdisciplinary approach to analysing how fact and fiction inform space heritage, from political rhetoric to access, funding, symbolism, science fiction, heritage-making, designations, and conservation. It explores how space heritage is contested and actively disrupted by curatorial, community and ecocritical interventions. The representation of humanity on a universal platform and the future of space heritage is political and critical as it informs how we see ourselves and the planet we inhabit.Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)University of British ColumbiaLouise Ann Wilson Company Limite