Painting Hinemihi by numbers: Peoples-based conservation and the paint analysis of Hinemihi's carvings

Sully, Dean; Cardoso, Isabel Pombo

doi:10.1179/2047058413y.0000000102

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“…People-centred approaches develop a community-based process to inclusively manage heritage properties connected to religious affiliations, traditions, social networks and daily lives of local communities (Khalaf, 2016;Wijesuriya et al, 2017). These approaches are positioned within the mainstream framework of urban planning policies and practices, highlighting the roles and human factors of local communities (Ripp & Rodwell, 2015;Sully & Cardoso, 2014. In this setting, cultural heritage is managed as a dynamic resource contributing to societies and communities in the present as well as to future generations (Dormaels, 2016;Khalaf, 2016).…”

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Community participation in cultural heritage management: A systematic literature review comparing Chinese and international practices

Krishnamurthy

Roders

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Community participation is an essential issue in heritage management. The international heritage organisation ICCROM published a guidance document discussing people-centred approaches to heritage management in 2015. Cultural heritage management is recommended to be carried out through a community participation process. Despite the growing literature on community participation in cultural heritage management, little research has been done on comparing Chinese to international approaches. Although in China several pilot projects have conducted effective community participation and achieved excellent outcomes. This paper aims to fill this gap by providing an overview that compares and discusses the similarities and differences between Chinese and international approaches. A systematic literature review of the state-of-the-art was conducted to explore these differences based on four themes: engaged communities, participatory methods, degrees of participation and steps taken within cultural heritage management. This review concludes both Chinese and international practices seek to collaborate with and empower local communities in their approaches, with Chinese pilot cases, such as Tianzifang in Shanghai. However, in general, Chinese cultural heritage management is government-led, in which community participation is happening to a minimal degree. China is encouraged to learn from international practices when developing contextualised management approaches, to better face the challenges of rapid urbanisation.

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Community participation in cultural heritage management: A systematic literature review comparing Chinese and international practices

Krishnamurthy

Roders

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“…Rather than reaching for subtlety: ask whether a hot-pink gap-fill (Figure 2) would signify the impact of conservation on the object's journey. This paradigm shift presents the opportunity to explore the values embodied by an object that are retained or enhanced during conservation (Sully and Cardoso 2014).…”

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Disruptive Conservation: Challenging Conservation Orthodoxy

Sweetnam

Henderson

2021

Studies in Conservation

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This paper takes the position that our current treatments that involve infilling with a neutral rather than matched colour are deceptive to the viewer and that such deliberate mediation through the act of conservation can deny the viewer an authentic understanding of the heritage object. Governing guidelines and documents describe authenticity as the alignment of the object and its story but for some practitioners, the concept remains tied to originality. Authenticity could be considered a fluid concept as it is built via the individual relationship between object and viewer. Many of the default approaches to conservation fail to address the fluidity embodied in the object and its representation of the passage of time. A lack of examination into the inherent biases of our work defends the status quo within our museums under a cloak of neutrality. Disruptive conservation is proposed as a challenge, exemplified by a jarring visible mend. It is an approach designed to disturb complacency. It calls upon analysis of our biases and challenges the consequences of freezing the meanings of our conserved objects. Placing the process of disruptive conservation into treatment dialogues enables conservators to account for the object's journey in how their intervention is portrayed. It stops the object from existing simply as a representation of the past and allows it to continue its evolution. The question 'Why don't I make this fill in hot pink?' is offered as a catalyst for an appraisal of an object's place and context without assuming or imposing a fake neutrality.

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“…Instead, it invites a holistic consideration of how we 'manage change' in the present and the futures these practices create (Harrison et al 2016). While 'loss aversion' may be inevitable (Holtorf 2015), the recognition that interventions can be generative should provide room for more flexible approaches (Sully and Cardoso 2014;Cutajar et al 2016). However, moving beyond endangerment narratives for heritage must prompt interventions to go beyond merely treating authorised heritage in slightly different ways, to encompass a range of creative practices including ways of recognising and addressing the dangerous heritages that endangerment has downplayed by insisting that 'heritage makes you happy' (cf.…”

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Endangerment-driven heritage volunteering: democratisation or ‘Changeless Change’

Fredheim

2017

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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This article is the product of prolonged wrestling with the question of how heritage professionals and researchers can facilitate and sustain public agency in caring for heritage in the UK during austerity without exploiting volunteers or devaluing professionals. It offers critical perspectives on efforts made to democratise heritage in the UK by increasing public participation through a critique of neoliberalism and the rise of neoliberal approaches in the heritage sector. It argues that the adoption of neoliberal approaches, such as crowdsourcing, that profess to democratise yet reinforce existing power structures, is the inevitable result of insisting on protecting material culture from harm, despite the continuing accumulation of more 'heritage'. Drawing on critical perspectives on participation from a number of disciplines, it is suggested that efforts to increase public participation in heritage cannot hope to avoid exploiting volunteers, devaluing professionals and marginalising traditionally underrepresented demographics unless they also let go of the perceived need to protect the materiality of the past. Drawing on Sarah May's archaeology of contemporary tigers, this article argues that the application of endangerment narratives to heritage reinforces uncritical understandings of both heritage and volunteering that preclude heritage from fulfilling its potential function as a contemporary social process.

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Painting Hinemihi by numbers: Peoples-based conservation and the paint analysis of Hinemihi's carvings

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

Community participation in cultural heritage management: A systematic literature review comparing Chinese and international practices

Community participation in cultural heritage management: A systematic literature review comparing Chinese and international practices

Disruptive Conservation: Challenging Conservation Orthodoxy

Endangerment-driven heritage volunteering: democratisation or ‘Changeless Change’

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