Rodney Harrison

Rodney Harrison is Professor of Heritage Studies at the UCL Institute of Archaeology. He has experience working in, teaching and researching natural and cultural heritage conservation, management and preservation in the UK, Europe, Australia, North America and South America. His research has been funded by AHRC/UKRI, GCRF, British Academy, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Australian Research Council, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and the European Commission. Rodney was Principal Investigator and led both the Diversity theme and the Heritage Futures research programme.

Principal Investigator

Rodney Harrison, Caitlin DeSilvey, Cornelius Holtorf, Sharon Macdonald, Nadia Bartolini, Esther Breithoff, Harald Fredheim, Antony Lyons, Sarah May, Jennie Morgan, and Sefryn Penrose. 2020. Heritage Futures Comparative Approaches to Natural and Cultural Heritage Practices. UCL Press.

Caitlin DeSilvey and Rodney Harrison. 2019. Anticipating loss: rethinking endangerment in heritage futures. International Journal of Heritage Studies 26 Special Issue

Reflections on 'Techniques of Worlding'

Transforming Loss: Knowledge Exchange at Orford

Rodney Harrison. 2018. On Heritage Ontologies: Rethinking the Material Worlds of Heritage. Anthropological Quarterly 91(4).1365-1383.

Heritage Futures exhibition now open at the Manchester Museum

Heritage Futures Exhibition: Manchester Museum

Esther Breithoff and Rodney Harrison. 2018. From ark to bank: extinction, proxies and biocapitals in ex-situ biodiversity conservation practices. International Journal of Heritage Studies.

Heritage Futures: Some thoughts on the value of comparative research to critical heritage studies

Heritage Futures at Future Fest

Heritage Futures at the 19th ICOMOS General Assembly in Delhi

Andrew Gardner and Rodney Harrison. 2017. Brexit, Archaeology and Heritage: Reflections and Agendas. Papers from the Institute of Archaeology 27(1), Art. 24.

Rodney Harrison . 2017. Freezing Seeds and Making Futures: Endangerment, Hope, Security, and Time in Agrobiodiversity Conservation Practices. Culture, Agriculture, Food & Environment 39(2): 80–89

Call for Papers: Unsustainable heritage?

Call for papers: Unsustainable heritage? ACHS 2018

Rodney Harrison and Esther Breithoff. 2017. Archaeologies of the Contemporary World. Annual Review of Anthropology 46: 203-221.

Radical BAME Youth Heritage Project

Los ecos del Proyecto Huemul

“Los ecos del Proyecto Huemul” exhibition opens in Argentina

Summary of the Nature-Culture Workshop at IUCN

Techniques of Worlding: Categorization Knowledge Exchange at Kew

Heritage futures and future heritages

Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving

A Contemporary Provocation: Reconstruction as tools of future-making

'Looking to the Future of Historic Urban Landscape Research: the view from the AHRC’s future heritage strategy'.

Rodney Harrison et al. 2016. Heritage Futures. Archaeology International 19: 68–72.

Afterlives Salon

Heritage Assemblages

Bennett, T., Cameron, F., Dias, N., Dibley, B., Harrison, R., Jacknis, I., McCarthy, C. (2017). Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums and Liberal Government. Duke University Press, Durham and London

Harrison, R. (2016) Archaeologies of Emergent Presents and Futures. Historical Archaeology 50(3): 165-180.

Heritage Futures and the Futures of Heritage

After War: Heritage, diversity and post-conflict development

On the Trace: Passing, presence and the persistence of the past

Critical Heritage Studies in the UK: Future Directions

Heritage as Global Challenge

Heritage Ontologies: Understanding Heritage as Future-Making Practices

What is Critical Heritage Studies: Open Forum

Heritage Futures

Cabinets of Consequence

Heritage Futures

Harrison, R. (2015). Heritage and Globalisation. In E. Waterton and S. Watson (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research; 297-312. Palgrave.

Harrison, R. (2016). World Heritage Listing and the Globalization of the Endangerment Sensibility. In F. Vidal and N. Dias (Eds.), Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture; 195-217. Abingdon and New York: Routledge.

Rodney Harrison (2015) Beyond “Natural” and “Cultural” Heritage: Toward an Ontological Politics of Heritage in the Age of Anthropocene, Heritage & Society, 8:1, 24-42

Knowledge Exchange Workshop, Stockholm and Forsmark

Nature/Culture Heritage Surgery: Building Sustainable Heritage Futures in the Anthropocene

Alternative Heritage Futures

Assembling alternative futures for heritage

Conserving Worlds, Making Futures: Understanding Biological and Cultural Diversity Conservation in Comparative Perspective

Conserving diversity: Understanding biological, cultural, linguistic and ecological diversity conservation practices in comparative perspective

Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage

Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage

Assembling Alternative Futures for Heritage