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The recognition and misrecognition of community heritage

Waterton, Emma; Smith, Laurajane

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This paper revisits the notion of 'community' within the field of heritage, examining the varied ways in which tensions between different groups and their aspirations arise and are mediated. Our focus is a close examination of the conceptual disjunction that exists between a range of popular, political and academic attempts to define and negotiate memory, place, identity and cultural expression. To do so, the paper places emphasis on those expressions of community that have been taken up within...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorWaterton, Emma
dc.contributor.authorSmith, Laurajane
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-10T22:12:31Z
dc.identifier.issn1352-7258
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/49698
dc.description.abstractThis paper revisits the notion of 'community' within the field of heritage, examining the varied ways in which tensions between different groups and their aspirations arise and are mediated. Our focus is a close examination of the conceptual disjunction that exists between a range of popular, political and academic attempts to define and negotiate memory, place, identity and cultural expression. To do so, the paper places emphasis on those expressions of community that have been taken up within dominant political and academic practice. Such expressions, we argue, are embedded with restrictive assumptions concerned with nostalgia, consensus and homogeneity, all of which help to facilitate the extent to which systemic issues tied up with social justice, recognition and subordinate status are ignored or go unidentified. This, inevitably, has serious and far-reaching consequences for community groups seeking to assert alternative understandings of heritage. Indeed, the net result has seen the virtual disappearance of dissonance and more nuanced ways of understanding heritage. Adopting an argument underpinned by Nancy Fraser's notion of a 'politics of recognition', this paper proposes a more critical practice of community engagement.
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis Group
dc.sourceInternational Journal of Heritage Studies
dc.subjectKeywords: Community; Expertise; Nancy Fraser; Politics of recognition; Social inclusion; Zygmunt Bauman
dc.titleThe recognition and misrecognition of community heritage
dc.typeJournal article
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.identifier.citationvolume16
dc.date.issued2010
local.identifier.absfor210204 - Museum Studies
local.identifier.absfor210202 - Heritage and Cultural Conservation
local.identifier.ariespublicationu8304786xPUB190
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationWaterton, Emma, Keele University
local.contributor.affiliationSmith, Laurajane, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1-2
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage4
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage15
local.identifier.doi10.1080/13527250903441671
dc.date.updated2016-02-24T11:39:45Z
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-77949953954
local.identifier.thomsonID000283059200002
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