Reconceptualization of Public Policies. Values in Social Acceptability
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How might public policies, under the management of witnesses of memory or collective experience, surpass the principle of exclusion that dominates current heritage practices and policies?
This session seeks to envision the combination of these concepts of heritage in standardized public policies and, specifically, in examining questions of the social acceptability of the values that they promote.
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There is no real Chinese equivalent to the English term "heritage" or the French term "patrimoine." On the island of Kinmen, on the border between China and Taiwan, two particular terms are used: zuchan, designates material ancestral property; and wenzi, which qualifies the resources of the civilization. This paper will refer these two definitions and understandings in order to examine the notion of heritage on this "border island." Starting with an ethnographic inquiry of heritage practic...
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...
Value is a central concept in heritage. Despite positive shifts, current conservation practice is still dominated by Western European positivist traditions that emphasize scientific expertise. With the development of Critical Heritage Studies, new perspectives on value and processes of valuing have been proposed, raising the prospect of broader and more inclusive frameworks for heritage. This paper will consider the practical challenges of translating these new concepts, which understand v...
This paper will analyze the process of the interpretation of heritage in the goal of putting it into action. It will present, in this manner, an archetype of valuation of heritage in the realm of tourism. This archetype makes a case for the definition of an imaginary wintertime Montreal based on its so-called "traditional" winter heritage. In studying the evolution of the Montreal winter carnival since 1883 to its contemporary iteration, I will relate the attempts by public and private org...
