Reframing China’s heritage conservation discourse. Learning by testing civic engagement tools in a historic rural village
| Autor: | Francesca Frassoldati, Christian Nolf, G. Verdini |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Cultural Studies
History civic engagement Geography Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 02 engineering and technology Conservation local development Chinese villages historic urban landscape Urban conservation Planning and Development Cultural heritage management Civic engagement Industrial heritage Sociology Sustainable development Materiality (auditing) 05 social sciences Museology 021107 urban & regional planning Environmental ethics Cognitive reframing Archaeology Cultural heritage Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management Sustainability 050703 geography |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Heritage Studies 23 (2017) 4 International Journal of Heritage Studies, 23(4), 317-334 |
| ISSN: | 1352-7258 |
| Popis: | Urban heritage conservation in China has been subject to severe criticism, although there is now a sense of paradigm shift. Charters, declarations and agendas had the merit of filtering down the international discourse on heritage, while more innovative approaches were arising. The UNESCO Historic Urban Landscape recommendation, offers a new angle from which to observe this process of change. The underlying argument of this article is that HUL can provide a platform to achieve greater sustainability in transforming historic sites in China, particularly in rural areas, overcoming, at the same time, the easy shortcut of the East–West discourse of difference in respect to heritage conservation. This is primarily due to the shifting focus from the materiality of heritage to its role in sustainable development with increasing attention on the role played by local communities. By presenting the proposal for the protection of the historic rural village of Shuang Wan in the Jiangsu Province, this paper aims to reflect on this shift showing its advantages but also some of the risks. These are inherent in a discourse of heritage in danger of legitimising mere pro-growth development approaches, if not accompanied by participatory practices considerate of the specific social reality of China. |
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