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The recognition and misrecognition of community heritage

Waterton, Emma, Smith, Laurajane·2010·International Journal of Heritage Studies
DOI 10.1080/13527250903441671
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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 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.

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  • Social relationships are rarely straightforward, and the 'rhetoric of community', especially at policy level, glosses over nuanced interactions and relationships between an individual with an interest in archaeology and the functions of civic and volunteerled society at local, regional and national levels.

    “However, social relationships are rarely straightforward, and the ' rhetoric of community ' (Waterton and Smith 2010, 8), especially at policy level, glosses over nuanced interactions and relationships between an individual with an interest in archaeology and the functions of civic and volunteerled society at local, regional and national levels.”

    From Do you even know what public archaeology is? Trends, theory, practice, ethics (2015) · cites this paper as Waterton and Smith 2010

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Authors
Waterton, E., & Smith, L.
Venue
International Journal of Heritage Studies
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2010-01
Volume
16
Issue
1-2
Pages
4-15
ISSN
  • 1352-7258
  • 1470-3610
DOI
10.1080/13527250903441671
Cited by
481
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