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Managing enthusiasm: Between ‘extremist’ volunteers and ‘rational’ professional practices in architectural conservation

“…Enthusiasm for architecture makes buildings 'matter' as individuals and groups engage with them in various ways, including visiting buildings, photographing them, recording visits online, and campaigning to save them (Craggs et al, 2013, p. 881;Bennett, 2011;Kitson, 2015). Understanding enthusiasm as productive in this way means adding enthusiasts, and enthusiast groups, to the growing list of agents -alongside architects, planners, construction and maintenance workers, and residents -that scholars must account for in understanding how architecture is 'practised' (Jacobs and Merriman, 2011;Lees and Baxter, 2011;Craggs et al, 2013).…”