Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels
Biographic Data
| ID | 163807 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathryn Lafrenz |
| FAMILY NAME | Samuels |
| SIGNATURE | SAMUELS K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1150-9297 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Carbon footprints of travel to World Heritage Sites
In this study, an input-output-based hybrid life cycle assessment method is used to calculate the carbon footprint of a tourist’s travel to sixteen United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites (WHS) including direct and indirect emissions. The carbon footprint of three trip styles (budget, mid-range expenses, and high-end) is calculated for each WHS, reflecting options available to heritage touris…
Global Climate Change and Unesco World Heritage
This article considers the fiftieth anniversary of the 1972 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Heritage Convention in light of climate change, offering a state of the field review of climate responses for World Heritage sites (WHS). Opening with a brief review of UNESCO World Heritage activities around climate change, we then detail the primary impacts and risks that climate change pose for WHS and t…
A New Leaf for a Founding Journal of Archaeological Heritage
and decades of development and change in archaeological management and conservation, CMAS was devoted to the nuts and bolts of practicing archaeology in society before the tremendous growth of interest in 'heritage' and 'heritage studies' from academia.Building on these firm foundations, the present is an exciting time for the journal.The many hardships of the coronavirus pandemic had an impact on the journal, as elsewhere, but this challenging p…
Special Issue – Rock Art Conservation and Management
In this special issue, contributors offer recent research on rock art conservation and site management from around the world – Australia, Tanzania, the United States, and Sweden – to illuminate the
Punic Heritage in Tunisia
Phoenician and Punic studies have an enduring impact today, as the Phoenician and Punic past has become interwoven with contemporary society in Tunisia and elsewhere. In this chapter the authors address the political, economic, and symbolic contexts of Phoenician and Punic heritage within contemporary Tunisia, and also position Tunisia within the wider Mediterranean and international community more broadly. The modern significance of Punic herita…
Deliberate Heritage
Cultural heritage is often seen as a tool for managing social change, as a mirror that society holds up to itself to make sense of change. In this paper I examine how heritage also mobilizes social change, framing cultural heritage as a persuasive tool in a public sphere of competing interests and claims. Rather than taking the circulation of heritage in the public sphere—across media outlets, social media, and expert networks—as epiphenomenal to…
From determinism to accountability. Archaeology, anthropology and ethics
The discussion by Arponen et al. inserts itself into long-standing debates about the place of causality and determinism in archaeological interpretation. While some of the discussion might feel like retreading familiar ground in those debates, the authors bring a refreshing clarity of exposition to the problem, and more importantly they propose several promising directions for future research. For example, their exhortation to 'see the human-envi…
Introduction - New Challenges for Cultural Heritage
Biodiversity in World Heritage Cultural Landscapes
When biodiversity is recognized not simply as a natural quality but as a cultural concept and product, it highlights human agency in fostering and promoting biodiversity. Mobilizing human agency becomes particularly important in the face of significant threats to biodiversity, such as those posed by global climate change. UNESCO World Heritage Sites offer an ideal platform for communicating global conservation challenges like climate change, and …
Transnational turns for archaeological heritage
National sentiments have historically overwhelmed global ones in the modern era. Archaeology was born in the service of the nation-state, as a technical means for engaging with the past within a specific calculus of territory, sovereignty, and nationhood. Significant shifts are currently underway, however, towards transnational modes and mechanisms of governance that have arisen in the wake of international dysfunction and neoliberal reforms. Wit…
The cadence of climate
With the current and coming climate crisis, archaeologists are questioning how best to contribute to multidisciplinary climate change knowledge. In this respect, much work is being undertaken within multidisciplinary conversations on adaptation and resilience. However, less attention has been paid to the other side of the climate change equation: mitigation. Furthermore, less emphasis has been placed on the translation of archaeological research …
Mobilizing Heritage in the Maghrib
Trajectories of Development
Value and significance in archaeology
The concept of value increasingly fills archaeological debates. An examination of how value works within the diverse practices of archaeology (reconstructions of the past, heritage management and self-reflexive critique) provides an integrating factor to these debates. Through a genealogy of value in the management of material heritage, I highlight how 'significance' has been institutionalized from contingent forms, and the 'the past' rendered an…
Value and significance in archaeology
The concept of value increasingly fills archaeological debates. An examination of how value works within the diverse practices of archaeology (reconstructions of the past, heritage management and self-reflexive critique) provides an integrating factor to these debates. Through a genealogy of value in the management of material heritage, I highlight how 'significance' has been institutionalized from contingent forms, and the 'the past' rendered an…
Trajectories of Development
Transnational turns for archaeological heritage
National sentiments have historically overwhelmed global ones in the modern era. Archaeology was born in the service of the nation-state, as a technical means for engaging with the past within a specific calculus of territory, sovereignty, and nationhood. Significant shifts are currently underway, however, towards transnational modes and mechanisms of governance that have arisen in the wake of international dysfunction and neoliberal reforms. Wit…
Deliberate Heritage
Cultural heritage is often seen as a tool for managing social change, as a mirror that society holds up to itself to make sense of change. In this paper I examine how heritage also mobilizes social change, framing cultural heritage as a persuasive tool in a public sphere of competing interests and claims. Rather than taking the circulation of heritage in the public sphere—across media outlets, social media, and expert networks—as epiphenomenal to…
Global Climate Change and Unesco World Heritage
This article considers the fiftieth anniversary of the 1972 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Heritage Convention in light of climate change, offering a state of the field review of climate responses for World Heritage sites (WHS). Opening with a brief review of UNESCO World Heritage activities around climate change, we then detail the primary impacts and risks that climate change pose for WHS and t…
Biodiversity in World Heritage Cultural Landscapes
When biodiversity is recognized not simply as a natural quality but as a cultural concept and product, it highlights human agency in fostering and promoting biodiversity. Mobilizing human agency becomes particularly important in the face of significant threats to biodiversity, such as those posed by global climate change. UNESCO World Heritage Sites offer an ideal platform for communicating global conservation challenges like climate change, and …
The cadence of climate
With the current and coming climate crisis, archaeologists are questioning how best to contribute to multidisciplinary climate change knowledge. In this respect, much work is being undertaken within multidisciplinary conversations on adaptation and resilience. However, less attention has been paid to the other side of the climate change equation: mitigation. Furthermore, less emphasis has been placed on the translation of archaeological research …
From determinism to accountability. Archaeology, anthropology and ethics
The discussion by Arponen et al. inserts itself into long-standing debates about the place of causality and determinism in archaeological interpretation. While some of the discussion might feel like retreading familiar ground in those debates, the authors bring a refreshing clarity of exposition to the problem, and more importantly they propose several promising directions for future research. For example, their exhortation to 'see the human-envi…
Value and significance in archaeology
The concept of value increasingly fills archaeological debates. An examination of how value works within the diverse practices of archaeology (reconstructions of the past, heritage management and self-reflexive critique) provides an integrating factor to these debates. Through a genealogy of value in the management of material heritage, I highlight how 'significance' has been institutionalized from contingent forms, and the 'the past' rendered an…
Trajectories of Development
Mobilizing Heritage in the Maghrib
Transnational turns for archaeological heritage
National sentiments have historically overwhelmed global ones in the modern era. Archaeology was born in the service of the nation-state, as a technical means for engaging with the past within a specific calculus of territory, sovereignty, and nationhood. Significant shifts are currently underway, however, towards transnational modes and mechanisms of governance that have arisen in the wake of international dysfunction and neoliberal reforms. Wit…
The cadence of climate
With the current and coming climate crisis, archaeologists are questioning how best to contribute to multidisciplinary climate change knowledge. In this respect, much work is being undertaken within multidisciplinary conversations on adaptation and resilience. However, less attention has been paid to the other side of the climate change equation: mitigation. Furthermore, less emphasis has been placed on the translation of archaeological research …
Introduction - New Challenges for Cultural Heritage
Biodiversity in World Heritage Cultural Landscapes
When biodiversity is recognized not simply as a natural quality but as a cultural concept and product, it highlights human agency in fostering and promoting biodiversity. Mobilizing human agency becomes particularly important in the face of significant threats to biodiversity, such as those posed by global climate change. UNESCO World Heritage Sites offer an ideal platform for communicating global conservation challenges like climate change, and …
Punic Heritage in Tunisia
Phoenician and Punic studies have an enduring impact today, as the Phoenician and Punic past has become interwoven with contemporary society in Tunisia and elsewhere. In this chapter the authors address the political, economic, and symbolic contexts of Phoenician and Punic heritage within contemporary Tunisia, and also position Tunisia within the wider Mediterranean and international community more broadly. The modern significance of Punic herita…
Deliberate Heritage
Cultural heritage is often seen as a tool for managing social change, as a mirror that society holds up to itself to make sense of change. In this paper I examine how heritage also mobilizes social change, framing cultural heritage as a persuasive tool in a public sphere of competing interests and claims. Rather than taking the circulation of heritage in the public sphere—across media outlets, social media, and expert networks—as epiphenomenal to…
From determinism to accountability. Archaeology, anthropology and ethics
The discussion by Arponen et al. inserts itself into long-standing debates about the place of causality and determinism in archaeological interpretation. While some of the discussion might feel like retreading familiar ground in those debates, the authors bring a refreshing clarity of exposition to the problem, and more importantly they propose several promising directions for future research. For example, their exhortation to 'see the human-envi…
A New Leaf for a Founding Journal of Archaeological Heritage
and decades of development and change in archaeological management and conservation, CMAS was devoted to the nuts and bolts of practicing archaeology in society before the tremendous growth of interest in 'heritage' and 'heritage studies' from academia.Building on these firm foundations, the present is an exciting time for the journal.The many hardships of the coronavirus pandemic had an impact on the journal, as elsewhere, but this challenging p…
Special Issue – Rock Art Conservation and Management
In this special issue, contributors offer recent research on rock art conservation and site management from around the world – Australia, Tanzania, the United States, and Sweden – to illuminate the
Global Climate Change and Unesco World Heritage
This article considers the fiftieth anniversary of the 1972 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Heritage Convention in light of climate change, offering a state of the field review of climate responses for World Heritage sites (WHS). Opening with a brief review of UNESCO World Heritage activities around climate change, we then detail the primary impacts and risks that climate change pose for WHS and t…
Carbon footprints of travel to World Heritage Sites
In this study, an input-output-based hybrid life cycle assessment method is used to calculate the carbon footprint of a tourist’s travel to sixteen United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites (WHS) including direct and indirect emissions. The carbon footprint of three trip styles (budget, mid-range expenses, and high-end) is calculated for each WHS, reflecting options available to heritage touris…
Archaeology (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Cultural heritage (8 works) · History (8 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Climate change (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works)