Meanings and Conflicts of Heritage II
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
This paper will challenge the categorization of heritage by looking at the feral horses of Kosciusko National Park in New South Wales, Australia. The state Heritage Act, however, refers only to the recognition of "a place, building, work, relic, moveable object or precinct." This shift in the type of object listed as heritage raises a number of questions that challenge the very concept of heritage. The paper will thus explore how a horse be heritage; how the heritage significance of the "b...
This paper examines the concept of natural beauty with respect to the designation of sites to UNESCO's World Heritage List: it will explore this criterion in light of the fact that beauty is subjective, culturally specific and non-universal, unlike the other measurable criteria. In order to illustrate this issue, the author traces the history of UNESCO world heritage regulations as it leans heavily on historic concepts of wilderness, the picturesque, and the sublime. This paper will explain p...
This paper examines the earthquake-prone Kathmandu Valley in Nepal, and the recurring cycle of destruction and reconstruction of Nepal's built fabric. The extent and nature of damage caused by the Gorkha Earthquake, not only to globally recognised monuments and sites, but to innumerable locally significant buildings and places, has intensified the growing academic and professional debates on post-disaster reconstruction of built heritage. This ...
