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42270

Type

article

Titre

Historic preservation ideology : a critical mapping of contemporary heritage policy discourse

Langues

English

Auteurs

Koziol, Christopher

Maison d'édition

National Council of Preservation Education

Date

2008

Pages

p. 41-50

Titre de la revue

Preservation Education and Research

Vol. & n°

v. 1 n. 1

Mots-clés

philosophy of conservation / values / conservation / theory of conservation / concepts / definitions / cultural tourism / economic value / methodologies of evaluation / transmission / policy / critical studies

Résumé en anglais

Historic preservation practitioners differ about definitions of the field. Often, those who have attempted to understand historic preservation focused on one particular definition and argued that it is more central than others. However, based on empirical evidence more fully developed elsewhere, there are discernible lines of discourse between and among the different points of view. The resulting patterns of meaning and discursive frames are critical to understand¬ing the practice of historic preservation. These discursive frames are mapped along two dimensions, which are developed and juxtaposed to provide a heuristic to help critically frame the ongoing professional discourse on preservation: first, whether a building, an artifact, or site is more important for reasons intrinsic to that thing or because of the associational values brought to it by those who are doing the valuation; second, how “market ideology” has affected a de¬bate that in the past frequently ignored both the political and economic context of practice.
This mapping resulted in a Preservation Discourse Matrix (PDM) where the two dimensions (or two axes) are analyzed as four categories: identity-based, curatorial, symbolic and property-oriented. Moreover, this matrix illustrates the relationships among these categories. In turn, the mapping is intended to contribute to future practice by providing a better understanding of interests and meaning in historic preservation.

URL

http://www.ncpe.us/pervol1.htm

Document joint

PER2008_Koziol.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)