The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Destruction

1. A path well worn? Approaches for the old problem of heritage destruction; Part 1 Understanding Destruction -- 2. Heritage Destruction in Conflict; 3. Talking about Heritage Destruction in Market Countries; 4. Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Peacetime and International Law; 5. Development of the Law of Armed Conflict as Applied to Cultural Heritage; 6. Heritage Destruction and Human Rights; 7. Heritage Destruction and Genocide: Legal Resistance, Conceptual Resiliency; 8. Methods, Motivations, and Actors: A Risk-based Approach to Heritage Destruction and Protection; Part 2 Interpretations of Destruction - 9. Heritage Destruction, Natural Disasters, and the Environment: Geological Disasters; 10. Heritage Destruction, Natural Disasters, and the Environment: Atmospheric Disasters; 11. Flooded Heritage: The Impact of Dams on Archaeological Sites; 12. On Destruction in Art and Film; 13. Between Heritage and the Readymade-the Imminent Aesthetic of Ai Weiwei; 14. Heritage Predation and the Pursuit of Politics; 15. Post-conflict Recovery Challenges: Affect and Heritage in Post-conflict Cyprus and Italy; 16. Media Narratives, Heritage Destruction, and Universal Heritage: A Case Study of Palmyra; 17. Collateral Damage: The Negative Side Effects of Protecting Cultural Heritage in Conflict Related Situations; 18. Turning Destruction into an Opportunity: Understanding the Construction of Timbuktu's 'success story' by UNESCO; 19. Heritage Destruction from a Humanitarian Perspective; Part 3 Expressions of Destruction -- 20. Cultural Property Destruction and Damage in Two World Wars; 21. Heritage Destruction and its Impact in Scandinavia and the Baltic Region during the Second World War; 22. Case Study: The Wars of Yugoslav Succession; 23. Cambodia: Gods Threatened by the Art Market and Warfare; 24. Destruction of Cultural Heritage in Times of Conflict: The Case of Syria; 25. Iraq: Creative Destruction and Cultural Heritage in the Warscape; 26. Iraqi and Syrian Responses to Heritage Destruction under the Islamic State: Genocide, Displacement, Reconstruction, and Return; 27. Heritage Destruction in the Caucasus with a Specific Focus on the Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict; 28. Weaponised Heritage: Urbicide by Construction and Destruction in Nablus, Palestine; 29. What is Happening to Egyptian Heritage? The Case of Privately-owned Buildings; 30. Destruction, Development, and Heritage in Melbourne: SX Towers, Southern Cross Hotel, Eastern Market; 31. Case Study: The destruction of Australian Aboriginal Heritage and its Implications for Indigenous Peoples Globally; 32. Destruction of Heritage in Latin America; Part 4 Transformations - 33. Reconsidering Heritage Destruction and Sustainable Development in a Long-Term Perspective.