Conference announcement: Association of Critical Heritage Studies

2011 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 399-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurajane Smith ◽  
Emma Waterton
Keyword(s):  
Conference Announcement ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
Critical Heritage

Heritage values and legal rules

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy C. Wells ◽  
Lucas Lixinski
Keyword(s):  
Regulatory Framework ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Regulatory Frameworks ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Critical Heritage ◽  
Fundamental Shift ◽  
New Framework

Purpose Existing regulatory frameworks for identifying and treating historic buildings and places reflect deference to expert rule, which privileges the values of a small number of heritage experts over the values of the majority of people who visit, work, and reside in historic environments. The purpose of this paper is to explore a fundamental shift in how US federal and local preservation laws address built heritage by suggesting a dynamic, adaptive regulatory framework that incorporates heterodox approaches to heritage and therefore is capable of accommodating contemporary sociocultural values. Design/methodology/approach The overall approach used is a comparative literature review from the fields of heterodox/orthodox heritage, heterodox/orthodox law, adaptive management, and participatory methods to inform the creation of a dynamic, adaptive regulatory framework. Findings Tools such as dialogical democracy and participatory action research are sufficiently pragmatic in implementation to envision how an adaptive regulatory framework could be implemented. This new framework would likely require heterodox definitions of law that move beyond justice as a primary purpose and broaden the nature of legal goods that can be protected while addressing discourses of power to benefit a larger group of stakeholders. Practical implications The authors suggest that an adaptive regulatory framework would be particularly beneficial for architectural and urban conservation planning, as it foregrounds considerations other than property rights in decision-making processes. While such a goal appears to be theoretically possible, the challenge will be to translate the theory of an adaptive regulatory framework into practice as there does not appear to be any precedent for its implementation. There will be issues with the need for increased resources to implement this framework. Originality/value To date, there have been few, if any, attempts to address critical heritage studies theory in the context of the regulatory environment. This paper appears to be the first such investigation in the literature.

scholarly journals Re-entering the house. Scenographic and artistic interventions and interactions in the historic house museum

1970 ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Hedvig Mårdh
Keyword(s):  
Art History ◽  
House Museums ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
Historic House Museums ◽  
Museum Design ◽  
House Museum ◽  
Historic House ◽  
Historic House Museum ◽  
Critical Heritage ◽  
Artistic Interventions

Scenographic and artistic interventions and interactions have gained in signi cance within the elds of exhibition and museum design since the 1990s. is article speci cally focuses on historic house museums, and how they use their theatrical and scenographic assets in order to recharge and reinvent themselves. e author discusses the di erent aims and tasks these interventions and interactions take on, and the attitudes that make them happen. Further, the author argues that the eld of art history should address these changes in museological practice, and should investigate new possible readings of the historic house, the objects within, and artistic interventions. is would also show the relevance of art history to the eld of critical heritage studies in a period that is characterized by the heritage boom and the new experience industry. 

scholarly journals Designing ‘Critical’ Heritage Experiences: Immersion, Enchantment and Autonomy

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin J. Sterling
Keyword(s):  
Experience Design ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
The Past ◽  
Emerging Trends ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
Experiential Design ◽  
Moral Model ◽  
Critical Heritage ◽  
Heritage Interpretation ◽  
Point Of Departure

This article investigates the critical potential of newly emerging approaches to heritage experience design. Moving away from a familiar critique of heritage experiences as inauthentic or overly commercial, I consider three aspects of the experiential that might (re)shape critical engagements with the past in the present. Building on the work of Kidd ( 2018 ), the first engages with the growing trend for ‘immersive’ experiences in museums and heritage sites. The second draws on Perry’s notion of archaeological ‘enchantment’ (2019) as a new ‘moral model’ for the field. The third applies Bishop’s ( 2012 ) reading of artistic ‘autonomy’ to specially designed heritage experiences. These concepts are then explored in relation to Critical Heritage Studies and tested against four micro case studies that engage in different ways with the experience of heritage. The theorisation put forward here serves as a point of departure for the two-year research project New Trajectories in Curatorial Experience Design (Feb 19–Jan 21), which aims to document and analyse emerging trends in experiential design within the heritage sector. In particular, this position paper highlights specific points of intervention where new forms of critical-creative practice might open up heritage interpretation to alternative experiential strategies and outcomes.

Heritage and the Use of the Past in East Africa

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Giblin
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Eastern Africa ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
Critical Heritage

This article outlines historical and ongoing uses of the past and academic heritage research into those activities within eastern Africa. The use of the past will be discussed as a deep historical practice in the area that is the EAC in the 21st century, demonstrating how political elites have constructed versions of the past to suit contemporary and future aims for hundreds of years. Then there is an outline of the colonial introduction of formalized Western heritage institutions and legislation in the early 20th century, the subsequent nationalization of these in the mid-20th century, and the late-20th- and early-21st-century internationalization of heritage. These overviews are followed by a discussion of different approaches to heritage research including early studies of museums, traditions, heritage management, archaeological introspections, and more recent “critical heritage studies,” which interrogate the use of the past as a form of cultural production.

The ex/inclusion paradox in heritage management: the Mobarak mosque in The Hague

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 259-269
Author(s):  
Karim van Knippenberg ◽  
Martijn Duineveld ◽  
Marleen Buizer
Keyword(s):  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
The Hague ◽  
Critical Heritage ◽  
Heritage Discourse

PurposeIn the field of critical heritage studies, it has often been argued that a more inclusive and participatory heritage management approach neutralises differences and can contribute to a more contemporary, plural, democratic and inclusive notion of heritage. Yet, the needs and aspirations of those assumed being excluded from heritage making are not always taken into account, because the analysis and critique often focussed on the dominant heritage discourses, organisations and institutions. This paper conceptualises heritage from below and explores and reconceptualises how subdominant notions of heritage relate to dominant, institutionalised conceptualisations of heritage.Design/methodology/approachBased on a case study of the Mobarak mosque in The Hague, the authors present the multiplicity of subdominant conceptualisations of heritage, the ways heritage is (expected to be) recognised and represented by the community and the complexity of issues of social inclusion/exclusion.FindingsThe authors conclude that inclusive and/or participatory heritage management practices are inclusive in name only when the needs and aspirations of those seemingly being “excluded” are not fully understood and taken into account.Originality/valueA binary heritage/non-heritage framework, the authors argue, is limited to understand matter that matters. Also the authors find that the assumption that there is a growing desire among local community groups to include their histories and related materialities as heritage in the dominant heritage discourse should be challenged.

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