Ainslee Meredith is a PhD candidate, teaching and research assistant with the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She holds a Master of Cultural Materials Conservation and Bachelor of Arts (Honours), also from the University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on conceptualising the public value of conservation in Australia within a social justice framework. ORCID ID: 0000-0002-6559-1716
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Sunday 15 December, 2019
This paper presents a new conceptualization of the relationship between conservation and value. Beginning with an overview of the various approaches taken to develop axiologies of value for use in conservation, and their underlying influences and purposes, it argues that the notion of public or social value characterizes these axiologies. The formalization of value within conservation theory has become so pervasive that it is taken for granted that conservation operates on a paradigm of va...