Curated decay heritage beyond saving
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Minneapolis
University of Minnesota Press
2017, 2017
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| Collection: | JSTOR Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- 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