Pub Date : 2023-07-05DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2231911
Emma Passey, Edgar A. Burns
ABSTRACT This article explores contemporary threads in the heritage history of Aotearoa New Zealand, as we witness in real-time the emergence of alternative narratives of Indigenous heritage, in contrast to those of Western dominated modernity and colonial hegemony. Moves to actively decolonise heritage studies is creating shifts in the bicultural understanding of culture and heritage to overtly include place heritage. As this new framing emerges, wider acknowledgement of the significance of Māori heritage landscapes is growing. This is explored here in a series of four case-studies. Each account illustrates how Indigenous Māori voices have gained momentum, and reinforces how Aotearoa New Zealand is transitioning to greater bicultural appreciation through inclusion, changes in social and cultural conventions, and new interpretations of dominant narratives using tools like critical heritage studies and existing legal conventions. This evolution of heritage values is not without repeated contestation, however. Positively, increasing numbers of settler-Pākehā (non-Māori) as well as those colonised, no longer believe or accept the histories previously told. Much needed, robust, and sometimes difficult discussions are taking place, enabling New Zealanders to reconsider the significance of what heritage means to all its people.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-04DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2231901
Yu-Ting Kao, Chih-Hung Wang
ABSTRACT This paper shows how heritage can become leverage working against the pro-growth city vision. In most cases, historic preservation in urban areas can hardly combat the dominant developmentalist ideology. The heritage thus produced may exacerbate uneven development, or simply be utilised as a cultural commodity. The case of Changhua City in Taiwan, however, proves otherwise. Through its 30-year controversies concerning the railway infrastructure, we show how the local government’s redevelopment vision since the 1990s can be gradually shifted, and that the secondary position of Changhua, plus the socio-materiality tied by three preservation movements upon the railway landscape, has made such shift possible. Drawing on planning reports and interviews with preservationists, we analyse how the static cityscape, though frustrating to developers and preservationists alike, has actually produced the kind of time-space required for civic life to develop, and for heritage to be lived as ordinary everyday life. With this case, we hope to contribute to the rethinking of heritage’s role in relation to the urban development.
{"title":"Heritage as city vision leverage: the suspended transformation of the railway landscape in Changhua City","authors":"Yu-Ting Kao, Chih-Hung Wang","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2231901","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2231901","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper shows how heritage can become leverage working against the pro-growth city vision. In most cases, historic preservation in urban areas can hardly combat the dominant developmentalist ideology. The heritage thus produced may exacerbate uneven development, or simply be utilised as a cultural commodity. The case of Changhua City in Taiwan, however, proves otherwise. Through its 30-year controversies concerning the railway infrastructure, we show how the local government’s redevelopment vision since the 1990s can be gradually shifted, and that the secondary position of Changhua, plus the socio-materiality tied by three preservation movements upon the railway landscape, has made such shift possible. Drawing on planning reports and interviews with preservationists, we analyse how the static cityscape, though frustrating to developers and preservationists alike, has actually produced the kind of time-space required for civic life to develop, and for heritage to be lived as ordinary everyday life. With this case, we hope to contribute to the rethinking of heritage’s role in relation to the urban development.","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"76 1","pages":"1004 - 1017"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80531544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-07-03DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2212003
M. van Dijk
ABSTRACT This article attempts to make a connection between two fields, that usually operate in separate intellectual contexts: critical research on heritage as a social practice and the study of historical and fantasy fiction, concentrating on renditions of the Middle Ages. Both the construction of heritage and the creation of a fictional narrative are ways of processing of the past, although, at first sight, opposites. Claiming a site as heritage and therefore as determining a community’s identity elides the distance between past and present, whereas the authors of historical and fantasy fiction are keen to stress the exotic nature of the Middle Ages. Yet, the article argues that these practices operate on a sliding scale and asks the question whether the telling of a fictional tale about the Middle Ages might be a heritage practice in itself.
{"title":"Fictional and fictionalised religions as heritage? Reflections on the object of critical heritage studies","authors":"M. van Dijk","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2212003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2212003","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article attempts to make a connection between two fields, that usually operate in separate intellectual contexts: critical research on heritage as a social practice and the study of historical and fantasy fiction, concentrating on renditions of the Middle Ages. Both the construction of heritage and the creation of a fictional narrative are ways of processing of the past, although, at first sight, opposites. Claiming a site as heritage and therefore as determining a community’s identity elides the distance between past and present, whereas the authors of historical and fantasy fiction are keen to stress the exotic nature of the Middle Ages. Yet, the article argues that these practices operate on a sliding scale and asks the question whether the telling of a fictional tale about the Middle Ages might be a heritage practice in itself.","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"664 - 677"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81210126","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-19DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2225059
Barbara Törnquist-Plewa, Igor Pietraszewski
ABSTRACT By applying the sociological concept of ‘emplacement’, this article analyses the creation of the ‘District of Mutual Respect’ in the old, neglected part of Wrocław (former German Breslau), a city which became Polish and lost its German population due to their forced migration after the Second World War. The District has in the last 20 years been transformed from slum to attractive environment and an important symbol of Wrocław’s new identity and image. The District showcases the local authorities’ new politics of cultural heritage and memory that emphasises intercultural dialogue and multiculturalism after decades of nationalist memory narratives and suppression of the German heritage. The authors outline a ‘biography’ of the District and analyse its functions. Furthermore, they apply Knudsen’s and Kølvraa’s concepts of repression, removal, reframing and re-emergence to evaluate to what extent that the District can be seen as a largely successful example of creating cultural heritage for a more cosmopolitan, inclusive future.
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ABSTRACT Heritage responsibility in cultural communication has gotten minimal scholarly study and may face additional challenges as a result of discourses of heritage dissonance. Through the lens of the combination of critical heritage studies and communication science on a sample of residents in the heritage site of Genglubu, Tanmen, China, this study critically analyses the heterogeneity of residents’ heritage responsibilities in the process of heritage cultural communication (divided into two dimensions: environmental and psychological), under the interaction between the official discourse and vernacular discourse. Combined with 284 respondents’ questionnaires and 65 in-depth interviews, this study has shown that: (a) residents were exposed to Genglubu heritage culture primarily through communication space, followed by media space and physical space; (b) four groups of residents were identified using two-step cluster analysis. In order of numbers, they were heritage value approvers, indifferents, qualified heritage protectors, and active heritage protectors. We argue that heritage practices dominated by authorised heritage discourse (AHD) suppress community voices. Although most Tanmen residents recognise heritage value, they fail to benefit from it, resulting in a lack of heritage responsibility. The findings of this study may provide some insights into how to ensure effective community involvement in heritage conservation.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-13DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2225041
Hao Zheng
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Pub Date : 2023-06-08DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2220298
Tuuli Lähdesmäki, I. Vlase
ABSTRACT Several scholars have emphasised the impact of gender on the notion, uses, and practices of heritage. Critical research dealing with gender, sexuality, and heritage is, however, rare. This article examines the research on gender and heritage across social sciences and humanities and shows how it is also gendered. Our meta-synthesis of articles selected from the Web of Science (WOS) combines a quantitative analysis of bibliometric information and coded contents of 427 relevant articles with a close reading of a sub-sample of 13 articles that explicitly deconstruct the binary gender system and its heteronormativity by focusing on LGBTQI minorities. Our results indicate that the articles on gender and heritage are predominantly written by one woman author, and related to this, mainly focus on cis women or femininity, which partly perpetuates a bias that gender is a ‘women’s issue’. Moreover, the analysed scholarship is Western dominated and Eurocentric. Although the articles in our sub-sample critically explore narratives, events, and sites dealing with LGBTQI minorities and their participation in heritage by queering it, the studies lack a critical approach to the notion of heritage and the use of power in heritagization processes.
一些学者强调了性别对遗产的概念、使用和实践的影响。然而，关于性别、性和遗产的批判性研究却很少。本文考察了跨社会科学和人文学科的性别和遗产研究，并展示了它是如何被性别化的。我们选取了来自Web of Science (WOS)的文章进行meta综合，对427篇相关文章的文献计量信息和编码内容进行了定量分析，并对13篇文章的子样本进行了仔细阅读，这些文章通过关注LGBTQI少数群体，明确地解构了二元性别体系及其异性恋规范性。我们的研究结果表明，关于性别和遗产的文章主要是由一位女性作者撰写的，与此相关的是，这些文章主要关注顺性女性或女性气质，这在一定程度上延续了性别是“女性问题”的偏见。此外，所分析的学术是西方主导和以欧洲为中心的。尽管我们子样本中的文章批判性地探讨了与LGBTQI少数群体有关的叙事、事件和遗址，以及他们通过“酷儿”的方式参与遗产的过程，但这些研究缺乏对遗产概念和遗产化过程中权力使用的批判性方法。
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Pub Date : 2023-06-05DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2220315
D. Chylińska, K. Kołodziejczyk
ABSTRACT The turn of the twentieth century brought many progressive ideas in the field of architecture and urban planning that are also reflected in modernist urban residential estates. These modern structures and spatial compositions reflected the need for good quality of living in healthy urban, natural and social environment. The paper focuses on two estates of the German Werkbund located in Wrocław (WUWA, Poland) and Stuttgart (Weissenhof, Germany), which due to their uniqueness constitute tourist attractions of both cities. The main objective of the comparative analysis was to identify model solutions for making historic housing estates available to visitors, shaping an attractive tourist product from entire urban complexes based on architecture and open spaces, simultaneously maintaining the balance of their basic social and tourist functions and the principles of sustainable development.
{"title":"The Werkbund estates in Wrocław and Stuttgart as examples of the tourism use of modernist urban complexes","authors":"D. Chylińska, K. Kołodziejczyk","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2220315","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2220315","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The turn of the twentieth century brought many progressive ideas in the field of architecture and urban planning that are also reflected in modernist urban residential estates. These modern structures and spatial compositions reflected the need for good quality of living in healthy urban, natural and social environment. The paper focuses on two estates of the German Werkbund located in Wrocław (WUWA, Poland) and Stuttgart (Weissenhof, Germany), which due to their uniqueness constitute tourist attractions of both cities. The main objective of the comparative analysis was to identify model solutions for making historic housing estates available to visitors, shaping an attractive tourist product from entire urban complexes based on architecture and open spaces, simultaneously maintaining the balance of their basic social and tourist functions and the principles of sustainable development.","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"39 15 1","pages":"792 - 821"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91214421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-04DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2220316
Fereshteh Pezeshki, Masood Khodadadi, M. Bagheri
ABSTRACT Community support is a key factor in the successful implementation of sustainable tourism development plans at heritage sites. This study presents a paradigm model to provide insight into the structure and process of community support for sustainable tourism development (SSTD) in small heritage sites. Using a social constructionist frame and grounded theory approach, the data from semi-structured interviews with 22 participants living in the historic city of Shiraz in Iran – selected through theoretical sampling – were analysed. In this study, for the first time, the dimensions of the core phenomenon of ‘community SSTD’ in small heritage sites were identified. They were categorised into five strategies of demand, emotional support, voluntary promotional activities, economic activities and user activities. Data analysis also revealed six factors of cultural/historical awareness, community attachment, individual characteristics, community perceptions, social factors and the sites’ neighbourhood conditions as factors affecting community SSTD in small heritage sites. Given the scarcity of qualitative studies conducted in the area of sustainable tourism development in small heritage sites, the findings of this study can be used as a basis for strengthening community SSTD in Iran and elsewhere.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-04DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2220301
Jérémie Molho
ABSTRACT New technologies have been argued to drive a more inclusive heritage discourse that accommodates a plurality of narratives. This article aims to examine this assumption based on the analysis of the heritage digitalisation strategies of Doha and Singapore. These cities have made significant investments in heritage preservation and digital technologies, positioning themselves as smart, creative, and culturally diverse urban centres. At the core of these strategies are transmedia heritage districts, which, despite having limited physical remnants of the past, revive their heritage across a range of online and offline channels. Based on an analysis of policy documents and on fieldwork in these cities, this article raises questions regarding the transformative power of the digital and its ability to democratise and pluralise the heritage discourse. I argue that while heritage digitalisation can function as a tool to showcase openness, strategically empower co-opted civic dynamics, it can also reinforce the prevailing heritage narrative. The transmedia heritage district serves as a policy instrument that displays the civic potential of digital heritage technologies in order to enable urban transformation and incorporate selected minority voices into the authorised heritage discourse.
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