Patrimonialities

Heritage vs. Property

Martin Skrydstrup author Valdimar Tr Hafstein author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:3rd Dec '20

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Critical, comparative, and nuanced, Patrimonialities makes the case for an historically grounded distinction between cultural heritage and cultural property.

With empirical touchstones from Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, the authors argue that heritage and property represent different approaches to subject formation, produce distinct bodies of expertise, and belong to different rationalities of government in a global patrimonial field.With empirical touchstones from Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific, the authors argue that heritage and property represent different approaches to subject formation, produce distinct bodies of expertise, and belong to different rationalities of government in a global patrimonial field: that cultural property is a technology of sovereignty, part of the order of the modern liberal state, but cultural heritage a technology of reformation that cultivates responsible subjects and entangles them in networks of expertise and management. While particular case trajectories may shift back and forth from rights-based claims and resolutions under the sign of cultural property to ethical claims and solutions under the sign of cultural heritage, the authors contend that there is significant analytical purchase to be gained from their distinction. Using a critical, comparative approach, they make the case for a historically grounded and theoretically informed understanding of the difference between the two terms.

ISBN: 9781108928380

Dimensions: 230mm x 150mm x 5mm

Weight: 180g

75 pages