Reporting Heritage Destruction - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1805830384 ISBN 13: 9781805830382

Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2025

Synopsis

The contributions in this volume, an output of the University of Oxford’s Endangered Cultural Heritage of the Global South (ECHGS) Hub, speak to some fundamental questions about the reporting of heritage destruction: who is reporting, what is being reported and how, and what are the implications of such reporting? Given that cultural heritage can serve as both a trigger and a casualty of conflict, the relentless flow of reporting from news outlets and social media and user-generated content has consequences. The complex and evolving relationships between communities, media, human rights issues and heritage can also serve to endanger and safeguard identities in the present as well as the tangible and intangible legacies of the past. This volume explores these topics through a diversity of perspectives, including from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. The collection culminates with the ‘Oxford Recommendations’, an ethical reporting framework recommended for use by journalists and others confronted by such issues.

About this title

About the Author

Dr Bijan Rouhani is a Researcher on the EAMENA Project at Oxford University.

Dr Bill Finlayson is Director of the EAMENA Project at Oxford University.

Dr Tim Clack is Associate Professor at the School of Archaeology an School of Anthropology at Oxford University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Archaeopress Archaeology
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1805830384
• ISBN 13: 9781805830382
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 266
• Editor: Rouhani Bijan, Finlayson Bill, Clack Timothy