Power relations and community involvement in landscape‐based cultural heritage management practice: an Australian case study

Prangnell, Jonathan; Ross, Anne; Coghill, Brian

doi:10.1080/13527250903441838

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“…Daher 2005;Ennen 2000;Henderson 2008;Lu 2009), Indigenous communities (e.g. Ampudia and Miro 2009;Greer 2010;Hemming and Rigney 2010;Prangnell, Ross, and Coghill 2010;Smith et al 2003;Powell 2000;West 2006), and unique sites that attract tourists and World Heritage status (e.g. Breglia 2005;Evans 2002;Hitchcock 2002;Klimpke and Kammeier 2006;Wiesmann et al 2005); yet, small town America may also be an excellent laboratory for developing community-engaged heritage protection models and weaving them into the everyday political habits of community members.…”

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confidence: 98%

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Labrador¹

2012

Heritage & Society

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The start of the twenty-first century is marked by new levels of globalization, environmental degradation, and social conflict that are endangering the cultural landscapes and agrarian heritage of rural areas. In the wake of these threats, heritage professionals are imagining new, holistic models for shared cultural and natural heritage protection that support active community engagement around issues of cultural identity, material and ecological sustainability, and shared ethical values. Agricultural land conservation is fertile terrain in which to theorize how heritage protection can contribute to the mobilization of social cohesion to restore a balanced human ecology. Agrarian land tenure challenges heritage advocates to bridge the conventional binary of nature/culture that has divided heritage resource protection strategies and to support the protection of working, populated cultural landscapes. Over the past 35 years in the United States, a number of agricultural land protection programs have emerged that depend upon a complex web of cooperation among landowners, governments, and private land trusts to purchase development rights on farmland. I propose that such programs are both symptoms of and coping strategies for broader processes of socio-economic alienation. This paper focuses on a New England case study to explore the potential for agricultural land protection as a framework for shared heritage protection. Based on the results and research connected with this case study, I offer a theoretical and ethical framework of heritage protection as a culturally mediated discursive practice of community-building-one that references the past in order to intervene in present alienating processes and secure a recognizable future. ResumenEl comienzo del siglo veintiuno está marcado por nuevos niveles de globalización, impacto ambiental y conflicto social que están poniendo en peligro los paisajes culturales y el patrimonio agrario de las zonas rurales. A raíz de estas amenazas, los defensores del patrimonio están proyectando nuevos modelos integrales para la protección compartida del patrimonio cultural y natural que apoyen el compromiso comunitario activo en torno a las cuestiones de identidad cultural, sostenibilidad material y ecológica, y valores éticos compartidos. La conservación de la tierra agrícola es terreno fértil para especular cómo la protección del patrimonio puede contribuir a la movilización de la cohesión social a fin de recuperar una ecología humana equilibrada. La estructura agraria desafía a los defensores del patrimonio a unificar el binario convencional de naturaleza y cultura que ha dividido las estrategias de protección de los recursos patrimoniales y a apoyar la protección de los paisajes culturales poblados y llenos de vida. Durante los últimos 35 años en los Estados Unidos han surgido numerosos programas de protección de la tierra agrícola que dependen de una red compleja de cooperación entre terratenientes, gobiernos y fideicomisos inmobiliarios privados para adquirirHeritage & Society 2...

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Section: Résumémentioning

confidence: 98%

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Labrador¹

2012

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“…Work by Prangnell et al (2010) recognises the importance of landscape to the Quandamooka of Moreton Bay in Queensland, Australia. This required academic archaeologists to think about landscape in new ways; not simply in terms of archaeological sites and archaeological landscapes, but to understand that plants, trees, natural features and so forth, may all have cultural significance for the Quandamooka.…”

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Heritage and archaeology in Chitral, Pakistan: exploring some local views and issues

Ali

Shah

Samad

et al. 2013

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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The present article presents the results of a recent (2009) survey of understandings and attitudes to heritage and culture in Chitral, Pakistan. Chitral has two main ethnic-religious groups: the Muslim Kho and the Kalasha, who are the largest non-Muslim minority group in the Hindu Kush. Very little is known formally of Chitral history and prehistory beyond the last 200-300 years, and this has led to a relatively set list of heritage and cultural events or traits being iterated by local people and outsiders alike. With a growing emphasis on tourism and development in Chitral we think that it is important for local people to have understanding and control of what is and is not presented as heritage here, and also how heritage might be appropriately preserved. We also touch on the tensions between a powerful majority and a less powerful minority group, and the impact such an unequal relationship has on heritage.

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“…This fact may also be true of properties associated with slaves, women and other minority groups (Dubrow 2000). Thus, it is essential to consider how to critically evaluate the cultural significance of a historic site, and to question and develop inclusive assessment protocols for different cultural contexts in order to facilitate more effective preservation efforts for ethnic minority heritages (Prangnell, Ross, and Coghill 2010).…”

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Heritage and ethnic identity: preserving Chinese cemeteries in the United States

2014

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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This paper critically examines the role of ethnic community in the process of heritage management and preservation. Drawing on two heritage projects dedicated to historic Chinese American cemeteries -the nineteenth-century Chinese Memorial Shrine in Los Angeles, California and Concordia Chinese Cemetery located in El Paso, Texas -this study examines how heritage serves as a central referent in constructing a collective identity that gives continuity and political unity to an ethnic community. Heritage preservation, as a practice connecting the past and present, provides us with insight not only into the historic meanings attached to heritage, but also the contemporary values and ideologies of communities with regard to their efforts in interpreting the past. This paper highlights the relationship between identity politics and heritage, suggesting that heritage becomes a vital means of identity formation which helps articulate cultural traditions in the face of a dominant national culture that essentialises ethnic pasts.

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Power relations and community involvement in landscape‐based cultural heritage management practice: an Australian case study

Cited by 48 publications

References 16 publications

Entrusting the Commons

Entrusting the Commons

Heritage and archaeology in Chitral, Pakistan: exploring some local views and issues

Heritage and ethnic identity: preserving Chinese cemeteries in the United States

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