Modern Historical Preservation--Towards a Global Perspective

Betts, Paul; Ross, Corey

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“…The performance of those values through publicly available visual material was, as the archival pulse indicates, almost a corollary, a pragmatic response to the tensions between the desire for preservation and the demands and responsibilities of collective ownership. Such demands for preservation and popular historicality were central to the process of modernization itself (Betts and Corey , 14). Thus, state involvement was perceived as “educative” and forward looking, “through its power to preserve and represent culture, the state has assumed some responsibility for educating its citizenry in those forms … which would refine the sensibilities of the vulgar and enhance the capacities of the masses” (Hall , 24).…”

Section: Photographs and The Inspectoratementioning

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“Our Ancient Monuments”: Visualizing Documents in Stone

Edwards

2019

Visual Anthropology Review

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This article explores the ways in which, during the interwar period, practices of state preservation of ancient monuments in Britain established a visual rhetoric of “monument as document.” This was expressed through photographic postcards and the visual presentation of monuments themselves. Informed by an entangled ethos of scientific archaeological understanding, public education, and discourses of public ownership, I argue that photographs established and projected patterns of visibility and legibility, which addressed these core values of preservation, educative interpretation, and public access, within the practices of the “techno‐state.”

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“… There is a voluminous literature from historians addressing the interstices of ideological, social, cultural, and legislative dynamics, for instance, Gillman (), Melman (), Hall (), Swenson and Mandler (), Betts and Corey (), and Edwards (). …”

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“Our Ancient Monuments”: Visualizing Documents in Stone

Edwards

2019

Visual Anthropology Review

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“…First, urban scholarship on architectural preservation suggests that the desire to preserve Ð and commemorate built environmental elements of perceived value Ð is from time immemorial, especially in areas of the world known for long-standing settlements (Ashworth, 2011;Betts and Ross, 2015;Zhang, 2013). Urban preservation efforts are historically more recent in the USA (Sprinkle, 2014), where Ford (1979) argued that the focus had mainly been on the protection of individual, historically significant structures (e.g.…”

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Urban preservation and the queerying spaces of (un)remembering: Memorial landscapes of the Miami Beach art deco historic district

Zebracki

2017

Urban Studies

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Based on a case study on Miami Beach’s acclaimed iconic art deco architectural district, this article critically dovetails intersecting hegemonic spaces of preservation, memorial practices and social and sexual identities. It argues how commemorative narratives are selectively encrypted in the local urban environment and its artefacts deemed of historical significance. It especially reveals the tensions arising between art deco (i.e. architectural) preservation and gay (i.e. social) urban preservation, as well as its under-studied largely entrepreneurial nature and attraction for a mainstream, cosmopolitan class under neoliberalism. Drawing from extensive archival, policy, observational, participatory and interview data over 2013–2015, the article revisits in historical perspective how the art deco area, incarnated in the 1920s, developed across class-, ethnicity-, religion- and age-inflected social fragmentations and how this legacy, from the late-1970s onward, segued into the local gay-led preservation movement and select commemorations of the art deco scene. To this background, the study employs the tenet of ‘queerying’ to address the under-researched coalescing frictions in preservation between perceived authentic and engineered trajectories of (gay) place (re)makings alongside reminiscences selected over others. The findings uncover and challenge (un)intentional ‘(un)rememberings’ of the local early history and the recent past, where socially fragmented fault lines and the more recent gay-led preservation track remain overly homogeneously imprinted in dominant preservation communications and performance.

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“…We focus on the period after 1789, mainly due to our concentration on policies, but action by monarchs or pre‐1789 public bodies did exist; for a discussion of the spread of heritage globally, especially in non‐Western states, see Betts and Ross () and the special issue of Past and Present Supplement 10 (2015).…”

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Introduction: The state and historic buildings: preserving ‘the national past’

Thatcher

2017

Nations and Nationalism

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Historic buildings are important in nationalism through their roles in building and reinforcing national identity. As part of the expanding ‘heritage industry’, they are also of growing economic and political importance. Despite their physical existence, historic buildings are ‘created’ – they must be constructed as ‘historic’ through processes of choice and the attachment of significance. The state can perform these functions through policies that define and select buildings for protection, by ownership and funding, and by its uses of buildings for nationalistic purposes. Yet state actors can have good reasons – nationalistic and economic – to destroy or fail to preserve historic buildings. The paper examines why, when and how state actors pursue policies to protect historic buildings. It offers arguments about patterns of state action that part of state strategies to promote national identity and cultural nationalism.

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Modern Historical Preservation--Towards a Global Perspective

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“Our Ancient Monuments”: Visualizing Documents in Stone

“Our Ancient Monuments”: Visualizing Documents in Stone

Urban preservation and the queerying spaces of (un)remembering: Memorial landscapes of the Miami Beach art deco historic district

Introduction: The state and historic buildings: preserving ‘the national past’

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