Social Injustice

Abstract

Abstract Chapter 6 addresses the wicked problem of social injustice. It begins with a definition and an outline of some of the ways social injustice has been researched and managed as a wicked problem. The chapter recognizes specific overlaps with that on health and well-being and also on climate change, a key area of social injustice on a global scale. It refers to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and the 2005 Faro Convention, which aligns people’s right to heritage with UDHR. Also relevant here are policy documents from heritage-sector organizations that refer to and stress the need to engage with diversity, inclusion, and equality. The chapter’s final sections describe and critically examine some of the projects where archaeology and heritage practice have directly attempted to engage social injustices. In the examples given, focus is given to projects around homelessness and other hard-to-reach communities.