- Title
- Restoring non-secular cultural heritage in South and Southeast Asia in the aftermath of a natural disaster: Integrating systems theory and indigenous philosophical and cultural traditions to support sustainable conservation approaches
- Creator
- Mackee, Jamie
- Relation
- Historic Environment Vol. 23, Issue 2, p. 48-54
- Relation
- http://australia.icomos.org/publications/historic-environment
- Publisher
- Council for the Historic Environment
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- This paper proposes that any approach to the conservation in South and Southeast Asia to deal with the impact of natural disasters must be based on the cultural and philosophical traditions that have underpinned the formation of the cultural heritage. Through a review of literature, synergies between systems theory, based on holism, and the philosophical traditions of the region, particularly Buddhism are established. Focusing on the development of a framework it is argued that systems theory provides the foundation for an alternative paradigm supporting an original approach to appropriate restoration of the cultural built heritage in the aftermath of a natural disaster. Outcomes presented in this paper indicate such an approach highlights the uniqueness of cultural traditions, notions of spirituality, place-making and spatial relationships particularly of non-secular monuments. Sound preconditions for dealing with the destruction caused by natural disasters on cultural heritage that is often not dealt with by institutional protection provided by the World Heritage Convention and euro-centric approaches. The research presented in this paper is a component of the Author’s doctoral studies.
- Subject
- natural disasters; cultural heritage; Southeast Asia; Buddhism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/941105
- Identifier
- uon:13179
- Identifier
- ISSN:0726-6715
- Language
- eng
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