TY - JOUR
KW - Landscape loss
KW - Lesotho
KW - dams
KW - heritage mitigation
KW - intangible heritage
AU - Rachel King
AU - Luiseach Eoin
AB - Natural resource extraction projects such as dams and mines entail alteration to or destruction of natural and cultural landscapes. Heritage mitigation efforts often propose compensating for or salvaging material heritage, largely because this can be inventoried and evaluated alongside economic and environmental resources. Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) is often overlooked, despite the fact that tangibles, intangibles, and economic resources together constitute the impacted landscape. Writing from the perspective of western Lesotho s Metolong Dam, we view landscape as an embodiment of intangible heritage to explore what  landscape loss  consequent on dam-building entails. We contend that this process involves dissociating intangibles from their material correlates, and transforming landscape experiences by dissolving and re-constituting boundaries and  resources  in line with developer perspectives. We suggest that considering interdisciplinary approaches to landscape theorisation and ICH achieves a more nuanced view of how landscape loss and ICH interrelate, and thus improves mitigatory practice.
BT - Journal of Social Archaeology
DA - jun
DO - 10.1177/1469605314522897
LA - English
M1 - 2
N1 - Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
N2 - Natural resource extraction projects such as dams and mines entail alteration to or destruction of natural and cultural landscapes. Heritage mitigation efforts often propose compensating for or salvaging material heritage, largely because this can be inventoried and evaluated alongside economic and environmental resources. Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) is often overlooked, despite the fact that tangibles, intangibles, and economic resources together constitute the impacted landscape. Writing from the perspective of western Lesotho s Metolong Dam, we view landscape as an embodiment of intangible heritage to explore what  landscape loss  consequent on dam-building entails. We contend that this process involves dissociating intangibles from their material correlates, and transforming landscape experiences by dissolving and re-constituting boundaries and  resources  in line with developer perspectives. We suggest that considering interdisciplinary approaches to landscape theorisation and ICH achieves a more nuanced view of how landscape loss and ICH interrelate, and thus improves mitigatory practice.
PY - 2014
SP - 196
EP - 223
T2 - Journal of Social Archaeology
TI - Before the flood: Loss of place, mnemonics, and  resources  ahead of the Metolong Dam, Lesotho
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84901423398&doi=10.1177%2f1469605314522897&partnerID=40&md5=47795da6db3d464cb2c932fd7e5fe25c
VL - 14
SN - 14696053 (ISSN)
ER -