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- Caring for Cultural Heritage
- The Law in Context Series
- Caring for Cultural Heritage
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Caring for Cultural Heritage
- 3 Nested Practices of Care for Cultural Heritage
- 4 Translating How and Why Communities Care about Cultural Heritage
- 5 Creating Communities of Care
- 6 Quotidian Care
- 7 Navigating Harm to Cultural Heritage
- 8 The Rhetoric of Saving for the Nation
- 9 Challenging the Status quo
- 10 Conclusion
- Index
7 - Navigating Harm to Cultural Heritage
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 November 2023
- Caring for Cultural Heritage
- The Law in Context Series
- Caring for Cultural Heritage
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Caring for Cultural Heritage
- 3 Nested Practices of Care for Cultural Heritage
- 4 Translating How and Why Communities Care about Cultural Heritage
- 5 Creating Communities of Care
- 6 Quotidian Care
- 7 Navigating Harm to Cultural Heritage
- 8 The Rhetoric of Saving for the Nation
- 9 Challenging the Status quo
- 10 Conclusion
- Index
Summary
A key element of the notion of caring is the impetus to protect from harm. Harm is taken to include not only physical harm but also harm to the intangible elements to cultural heritage, including the association that might exist between an object, place or person. This chapter analyses how the UK law and non-law initiatives translate the concept of caring for heritage into duties on communities to protect cultural heritage from harm, or to respond to the risk of harm. This includes precautionary care, where policies and procedures are put in case, just in case they are needed in the event of war or conflict. Preventative care involves being alert to future potential risks and seeking to guard against these by prohibiting certain harmful activities (or at least subjecting them to scrutiny). The chapter also considers reactive care, where efforts are made in response to an actual or imminent risk of harm. It is recognised that often harm cannot be entirely averted and so the terminology of navigating harm is used. For that reason, where harm is inevitable, measures need to be in place to mitigate the effects of harm and these are considered.
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- Caring for Cultural HeritageAn Integrated Approach to Legal and Ethical Initiatives in the United Kingdom, pp. 209 - 275Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023