Ian Convery, Gerard Corsane and Peter Davis (eds.), Displaced Heritage: Responses to Disaster, Trauma, and Loss, Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2014, hardback, ￡60.00 pp. xx+337.

摘要

Number 16 in the International Centre for Cultural Studies' (Newcastle University) 'Heritage Matters' series, this comprehensive volume includes twenty-nine essays covering a range of themes, case studies and information from heritage specialists, lecturers, artists, scientists, researchers and consultants. With certain appeal for a variety of heritage professionals, disaster reconciliation people, natural heritage practitioners and museum and heritage students, the range and breadth of the text is set out in the preface by Kai Erikson and the endpiece by Phil O'Keefe. The term displacement, in this context, refers to the loss or 'rearrangement' of our natural or cultural heritage (this could occur through natural disaster or human involvement such as war, genocide or exploitation of natural resources). The preface deals with an examination of the term 'disaster', describing how natural disaster is considered only so when a man- made or cultural presence is caught in its path. Erikson extrapolates how pervasive disaster can be, therefore preventing it from being considered of as 'an event', and ascertains that its true meaning can only be understood once it is allowed to 'settle back into the larger flow of history'(xx).