Curated Decay: Heritage beyond Saving

Synopsis

Transporting Readers From Derelict Homesteads To Cold War Test Sites, Curated Decay Presents An Unparalleled Provocation To Conventional Thinking On The Conservation Of Cultural Heritage. Caitlin Desilvey Proposes Rethinking The Care Of Certain Vulnerable Sites In Terms Of Ecology And Entropy, Explaining How We Must Adopt An Ethical Stance That Allows Us To Collaborate With?rather Than Defend Against?natural Processes. Postpreservation : Looking Past Loss -- Memory's Ecologies : Curating Mutability In Montana -- When Story Meets The Storm : Unsafe Harbor -- Orderly Decay : Philosophies Of Non-intervention -- A Positive Passivity : Plants As Entropic Agents -- Boundary Work : Nature-culture In Practice -- Palliative Curation : The Death Of A Lighthouse -- Beyond Saving : Care Without Conservation. Caitlin Desilvey. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.