WHO NEEDS EXPERTS?
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School of Environmental Sciences, University of Ulster, UK
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Who Needs Experts?
Counter-mapping Cultural Heritage
Edited by
JOHN SCHOFIELD
University of York, UK
First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing
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Who needs experts? : counter-mapping cultural heritage/edited by John Schofield.
pages cm. -- (Heritage, culture and identity)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4094-3934-9 (hardback)
1. Archaeology and history. 2. Cultural property. 3. Local history. I. Schofield, John, 1948- author, editor of compilation.
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Contents
John Schofield
Stephanie Koerner
Sarah Wolferstan
Paul Graves-Brown
Denis Byrne
Rebecca Dierschow
Muts Burstrm
Tadhg OKeeffe
Brett Lashua and Simon Baker
Don Henson
Rachael Kiddey
Dominic Walker
Stella Jackson
Melissa Beattie
Gsli Plsson and Pll Haukur Bjrnsson
Graham Fairclough
Simon Baker is a practicing architect. He manages the Leeds office of Chetwoods Architects. He is the chair of the Architecture Centre for Leeds City Region, honorary secretary of the regional RIBA (Yorkshire) and actively contributes to the design council CABE and to both regional and local design review. Contact: simon.baker@chetwoods-leeds.com.
Melissa Beattie is a PhD student currently studying the construction and representation of national identity in the telefantasy series Torchwood at the School of Theatre, Film and Television Studies at Aberystwyth University. Prior to this she obtained an MPhil in Ancient History at Cardiff University, an MA in Archaeology for Screen Media from Bristol University and a BA in Classics from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Contact: tri.togeneia@aol.com.
Mats Burstrm is Professor of Archaeology at Stockholm University, Sweden. He has been instrumental in establishing the archaeology of the recent past as a field of research in Scandinavia. A major focus in his research is the relation between material culture and memory. He has also been working on issues arising from the ideology and practice of cultural heritage management. His fieldwork has taken him to Cuba, Estonia, and Germany, as well as Sweden. Contact: mats.burstrom@ark.su.se.
Denis Byrne is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney. As an archaeologist working in the field of heritage conservation and heritage studies he has a particular interest in the heritage of Aboriginal-settler relations in Australia and in the assessment of the social value of heritage places. His work in Southeast Asia and China centres on popular religion and the context this provides for everyday interaction with old and ancient objects An interest in new approaches to writing of archaeology and heritage resulted in his 2007 book Surface Collection: Archaeological Travels in Southeast Asia. Contact: denisbyrn.e@me.com.
Rebecca Dierschow recently received her MA in the Archaeology of Buildings at the University of York (UK), where her research focused on the recording and interpretation of vernacular buildings in open-air museums. She previously attended Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, where she earned a degree in History and Religious Studies. Contact: becca.dierschow@gmail.com.
Graham Fairclough is an archaeologist who until 2012 had for some decades worked with various parts of English Heritage, sometimes acting as an expert, other times promoting alternative views of looking at heritage, the inherited landscape and the historic environment. For a few years he was in charge of the Monuments Protection Programme, but thereafter of EHs various Characterisation programmes. He has worked with the Council of Europe on both the ELC and the Faro Conventions, and through a variety of European trans-national networks and projects he thinks he has begun to develop an adequate appreciation of the diversity, alterity and relativism of heritage practice across Europe. He was coeditor of the Routledge Heritage Reader (2008) and is currently joint editor of the OxbowManey journal Landscapes. Contact: graham.fairclough@ newcastle.ac.uk.
Paul Graves-Brown is an independent researcher living in Llanelli, and an Honorary Senior Research Associate at UCL. Trained as a prehistorian he has been researching modern material culture since the mid 1990s. In addition to numerous journal articles and book chapters he edited Matter, Materiality and Modern Culture (Routledge 2000) and. (with Rodney Harrison and. Angela Piccini) the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World. His research has covered car culture, shopping centres/malls, the Kalashnikov AK-47, popular music heritage and the archaeology of the internet. He is currently researching the history of the Future, with particular reference to Worlds Fairs and the growth of consumer society. Contact: slightly.muddy@virgin.net.