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The Future of Cultural Heritage Management: Ethics and Development

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We can hardly ignore that the world is positioned to change directions at a time of restlessness and dissatisfaction. Heritage has a significant and paramount role to play in coping with the ongoing processes of global transformations and in directing it toward a better future. In guiding these processes, archaeologists and heritage specialists should not continue to think and act as if the world is still shaped by the same forces that fostered the rise of archaeology and the heritage industry. Overcoming arrogant, chauvinistic stances, sectarian prejudices, and militant ethnic and religious groups have to be on the minds of a new generation of heritage managers. They should foster through heritage the values of equity, peace and knowledge, sociality, respect for others and cultural diversity, creativity, esthetics, emotional satisfaction, and appreciation of nature. They also should be concerned with the deleterious aspects of the commercialization of heritage and with the welfare of local communities. This requires the adoption of a vision and a strategy of cultural heritage management in tune with the new global agendas and for heritage managers to be more active in civic and governmental as well as intergovernmental arenas.

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  1. Cultural Heritage Management Program, French University in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt

    Fekri A. Hassan

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    Peter G. Gould

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    K. Anne Pyburn

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Hassan, F.A. (2017). The Future of Cultural Heritage Management: Ethics and Development. In: Gould, P., Pyburn, K. (eds) Collision or Collaboration. One World Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44515-1_2

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