Meanings and Conflicts of Heritage
My Session Status
How do we manage conflicts of value, of representation, and of use to which the multitude of concepts of heritage open the door?
This session seeks to understand what diverse heritages, and heritage in general, signify within (and outside of) a community, and what might be the appropriate manner of intervention in public instances.
Sub Sessions
The management of heritage in Antarctica is dictated by a framework codified within the Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) with sites listed on the official Historic Sites and Monuments list. To assume that the conceptualisation of heritage embodied within this document is unanimously accepted, however, is problematic. A 'hierarchy of heritages' that sees one approach enshrined in international law over others is suspected, but whose perspective is it? It is tempting to consider Antarctica as e...
Since the beginning of this century, Russian-style facades and simulacra of Russian architecture have appeared in several cities located in Northeast China. Through architecture, Russian occupants tried to make these territories Russian. Since the Russians have left the territory, Chinese municipalities have built Chinese- style buildings and heritage sites proving Chinese origins have been found and interpreted in order to compete with the Western-style buildings. More recently, replicas ...
This paper considers the lack of heritage regulations and legislation for the contemporary built environment, as well as the lag in preservation practices. Tracing the history and concepts behind present-day legislation, the paper likewise outlines future problems should these antiquated concepts not be rectified. Through an exploration of the situation in Australia, this paper will question how we can rethink heritage principles and practices, in line with living memory and documentation, as...
The memory of the Chilean dictatorship is a field of struggle of different ideological positions. Despite the efforts of the State for reconciliation among Chileans, differences in remembering and forgetting persist, because the meaning of the dictatorship for Chileans today is not a settled dispute. Memory, as a practice of making meaning of the past in the present, is also an affective practice. Recent theoretical trends in affect studies emphasize that affect is crucial in the activity ...
