🌳 Whose Heritage?

Epistemic-status

certain. fairly sure that "whose heritage" is privileged in the heritage discourse matters a whole lot in the general scheme of things

Epistemic-effort

medium to high. i've been mulling over this idea ever since i read Laurajane Smith's work on AHD, because I honestly thought of heritage as something universal when there is so much that goes into it. Then, it appeared over and over in literature and became a central concern.

Common question among the scholars/works:
@hallWhoseHeritageUnsettling2023, @smithHeritagePowerPolitics2022, @grahamGeographyHeritagePower2000, @ashworthPluralisingPastsHeritage2007 , Heritage, the power of the past, and the politics of (mis)recognition,
(@ashleyWhoseHeritageChallenging2023)

related: 🌱 “indigenous” or “ancestral” rights versus “heritage” or “heritage preservation”
related: "the right to the city" Lefebvre 1996

Baguio's current positioning provides an opportunity to challenge AHD and its insistence on defined dichotomies and definitions of heritage

“These are people who have formed communities in Britain which are both distinctively marked, culturally, and yet have never been separatist or exclusive.” (“Whose Heritage?: Challenging Race and Identity in Stuart Hall’s Post-nation Britain”, 2023, p. 20)
insight: distinct does not mean separate

"representation as a key moment of meaning-making" [@watertonCultureHeritageRepresentation2010]