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Ex Novo Vol. 6 - Call For Contributions

DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS SUBMISSION EXTENDED TO THE 15TH DECEMBER!!! The concept of Public Archaeology has profoundly changed since Mc Gimsey’s first formulation in the early 1970s, as it developed a solid conceptual and practical framework along the years that makes it now an independent branch of archaeology. However, in English-speaking and Northern European countries, the
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Much "ambaradan" about slave-drivers' monuments

by Alessandro Pintucci 12 June 2020 Tutto l’ambaradan intorno alla rimozione dei monumenti agli schiavisti: critica (un po’) ragionata* [For English see below] Scrivo questo pezzo di getto, nei giorni delle proteste in America e poi in tutto il mondo, per la morte di George Perry Floyd, un uomo afroamericano che a Minneapolis è morto
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Arte, Archeologia, Uomo E Natura

Matteo Cantisani intervista Fabio Fogliazza Fabio Fogliazza è il tecnico per la preparazione di fossili presso la sezione di Paleontologia del Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano, nonché illustratore scientifico ed artista di fama internazionale. Una delle sue opere più famose è la scultura “L’Uomo di Neanderthal”, oggi esposta in via permanente al Museo de
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The Culture and Nature Assets. Current Crossovers and Agenda For The Future

Arkadiusz Marciniak The paper intends to provide an overview of major crossovers between cultural and natural heritage appearing and executing in political, administrative, economic, societal and academic domains. It discusses complicated processes that have led to overcoming a separation between these two largely distinct domains, which is strikingly embedded in western philosophy. The relevance of
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Connecting Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices

Marjo J. Schlaman Integrated approaches in landscape management are often seen as the way forward to provide solutions for complex heritage problems that are related to policy, climate change, tourism, environmental planning and involving the public. This has led to a range of interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary projects aiming to add value to disciplinary approaches and
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Towards A Joint Natural And Cultural Heritage Management

Heleen van Londen Arguments for a joint natural and cultural heritage management practice follow a welltrodden path by now – we know what has to be done -, but not so much how to do it. The purpose of this article is to look at practical modes of interaction. What has been suggested so far?
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Participatory Practices In Natural And Cultural Heritage

Andrea A. Travaglia Heritage planning in Europe, through the Valletta and Florence Conventions, constitutes a framework for cooperation whereby the public is encouraged to take an active part – an ongoing cultural practice that includes society. Within this paper, I focus on participatory practice as a reflective process of problem-solving in heritage via individuals working
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Heritage. Public and Expert Discourse In The Process of Heritigization

Kornelia Kajda The debate about “Who owns the past?” has been and still is the subject heated discussion in heritage studies. Deciding what should be protected and what needs special social and governmental attention triggers many questions which are often met with equivocal answers. This article concentrates on a phenomenon framed as heritagization in relevant
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Landscape Of Visions: The Ekolsund Manorial Estate, Sweden

Åsa Ahrland Parks and gardens are characterized by constant change and the need to be continuously managed and recreated. Over time, layers of history are built up, reflecting artistic and human ideals, socio-economic factors, technology and practices from different periods. Designed landscapes are archives and often have significant levels of biodiversity. One example is the
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Connecting the Dots: Integrating Cultural and Natural Resource Management In The US

Michael Heilen & Jeffrey H. Altschul Landholding agencies in the United States are under increasing pressure to integrate cultural and natural resource management approaches at a landscape level and to do so earlier and more comprehensively in planning processes. How to integrate management practices is poorly understood, however. An impediment to integration is that the
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