From bricks and mortar to social heritage: planning space for diversities in the AHD

Ludwig, Carol ORCID: 0000-0002-2400-4992 (2016) From bricks and mortar to social heritage: planning space for diversities in the AHD. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HERITAGE STUDIES, 22 (10). pp. 811-827.

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Abstract

This article investigates the authorised heritage discourse (AHD) through the lens of conservation planning practice. The AHD is characterised as an exclusionary discourse that privileges the physical nature of ‘heritage’, defined scientifically by ‘experts’. Set within the context of wider international trends towards more inclusive heritage practices, the article advances understanding of the contemporary AHD. Using local heritage designation as an investigatory platform, a thesis is developed to explain professional representations of heritage operating in this setting. In doing so, a pervasive, yet nuanced AHD is exposed. At the same time, a complex variety of contextual factors that constrain radical readjustment of the AHD are also uncovered. These include struggles over the subjectivity and operationalisation of social and cultural heritage values in rational planning environments. The conclusions drawn from this research challenge and subtly refine the AHD, and crucially, propose that wider trends in the heritage discourse cannot be adequately implemented within the current legal apparatus and mind-set of traditional rational planning. The article suggests that further research is required to understand how the multiple and diverse layers of heritage meanings can be emplaced and legitimised within planning settings.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Authorised heritage discourse, AHD, conservation planning, local heritage, positivism
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	23 Sep 2016 14:39
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 07:29
DOI:	10.1080/13527258.2016.1218909
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3003443