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From a Given to a Construct: Heritage as a Commons

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dc.contributor.author Alonso González, Pablo
dc.date.accessioned 2014-02-20T19:44:00Z
dc.date.available 2014-02-20T19:44:00Z
dc.date.issued 2014 en_US
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/10535/9254
dc.description.abstract "The transition towards a cognitive and post-industrial economy has led to the emergence of new strategies of capture of the immanent productive capacities of the social forces. Heritage entities are subject to, and also participate in, processes by which common creativity and knowledge are being harnessed by novel forms of rent and control. The objective of this paper was to show that conceiving heritage as a common situated in specific contexts rather than as a universal essence can open up novel epistemological spheres of communication between different knowledge practices. Also, it can help bridge some ontological gaps among the various stakeholders in the arena of heritage, such as academics, managers, architects, local communities and market forces. This entails considering heritage as an emergent material and immaterial construction process involving many different agents. Currently, these processes tend towards the privatization of common values and the shattering of local communities. Normally, this situation entails a fundamental alienation between objects and subjects, and the reification of heritage. This paper suggests that considering heritage as a common could provide a different perspective to tackle this crucial problem. Accordingly, scholars should not only be bound to a critical discursive stance, but should also commit to ‘ontological politics’ that would situate them as mediators between the global hierarchies of value generated by heritage and the common productive potential of local communities." en_US
dc.language English en_US
dc.subject culture en_US
dc.subject commons en_US
dc.subject community en_US
dc.subject local knowledge en_US
dc.subject social behavior en_US
dc.subject.classification Heritage Studies en_US
dc.title From a Given to a Construct: Heritage as a Commons en_US
dc.type Journal Article en_US
dc.type.published published en_US
dc.type.methodology Case Study en_US
dc.coverage.region Europe en_US
dc.coverage.country Spain en_US
dc.subject.sector History en_US
dc.subject.sector Social Organization en_US
dc.subject.sector Theory en_US
dc.identifier.citationjournal Cultural Studies en_US
dc.identifier.citationvolume 28 en_US
dc.identifier.citationpages 359-390 en_US
dc.identifier.citationnumber 3 en_US
dc.identifier.citationmonth February en_US


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