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'Threats To Archaeology, its Importance, Values and Development'
Sessions
Localising the Global
Archaeological Resource Management: Participatory processes and ethical codes of conduct
SESSION ABSTRACT
For people working in the cultural heritage sector in a post-modern environment there are a large number of questions posed by the nature of archaeological work and the management of cultural resources. Ideas have been advanced that participation is an appropriate remedy for political (and other forms of) exclusion, with participatory approaches to community building, policy-making, and sustainable development becoming increasingly popular. However, the transition from theory to practice has been marked by lip-service and tokenism. The continued primacy of conservation ethics in the agenda of many international organisations, the continued failure to put genuine capacity-building at the heart of international projects, the pressures to find sustainable economic development, and concerns of globalisation and declining cultural diversity, are some of the wider symptoms - to be found in different lands and various contexts.
More broadly, participatory processes have been challenged, even by people who are committed to the principle that people should not be excluded from debates and decisions that have significant effects on their lives. The nature of stakeholder power in Cultural Resource Management has been oft avoided. Many of these issues are common to post-modern theory, and especially the tensions between global theory and local practice: the challenge of successfully implementing the “think globally, act locally” mantra.
We will be inviting participants to discuss case studies in CRM from around the world: examining the strategies employed, and the theories and policies they reflect. Specific interest will be given to the organisation of archaeological research and management (by whom and for whom?) and the involvement of the communities (communication, participation and power).
The debate will conclude with discussion of a Code of Ethics for the engagement of heritage professionals in CRM work.
Session organisers:
Tim Williams, Senior Lecturer in Archaeological Site Management, Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Email: tim.d.williams@ucl.ac.uk Stelios Lekakis, PhD Candidate, University of Athens.
“Refrained from the common past, living in a foreign present and longing for the redemptory future” Local communities, the State & their stake in managing archaeological heritage in the Aegean, Greece – Stelios Lekakis, University of Athens.
State archaeology and community involvement: irreconcilable concepts? The case study of Greece - Anastasia Sakellariadi, Institute of Archaeology - UCL
Who needs to be legitimized? Methodological and theoretical vacuums for stakeholder participation - Trinidad Rico, Stanford University
Archaeology and museums in the Arabian Gulf - Kirsty Norman
An ethical question: should the ‘local’ Queen Giovanna participate in the ‘global’ interpretation of the Villa of Augustus? - Akira Matsuda, Institute of Archaeology - UCL
Citizen and monument. Naxos, the case of a Greek island - Irini Gratsia, Archaeologist
Economic Development and Archaeology in Mainland China - Tracey L-D Lu Anthropology Department, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Archaeological Tourism: Toward a New Integrated Approach to Interpretation - Yaqoub Al-Busaidi, PhD Candidate. Cardiff School of Management, University Of Wales Institute, Cardiff
