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5 avril 2012 - PARVI

Workshop : Urban Issues in Patrimonialization

Session proposal by Luc Noppen and Lucie K. Morisset for the Association of Critical Heritage Studies Inaugural Conference to be held at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, June 5-8, 2012.

In contemporary cities, patrimonialization, i.e., the fabrication of patrimony or heritage in its various discursive or material aspects, gives rise to specific issues linked to the particularities of city living, social environments, and urban development. More specifically, the conjunction of the processes of symbolic investment that have defined built patrimony for more than two centuries and of economic development in a context of metropolization, increasing mobility, and worldwide competition among cities seems to be reflected in changes to the practices and very notion of patrimony. Relying on external constructs ranging from citizen empowerment to community or real estate recalibrations, it functions either as an instrument of change, or as a discourse on the urban environment. This session seeks to explore the mechanisms and the implementations of patrimonial representations of these kinds, specifically in the dense context of metropolization.

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