The park and the commons: vernacular spaces for everyday participation and cultural value

Gilmore, Abigail

doi:10.1080/09548963.2017.1274358

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“…In Western European contexts, for instance, heritage is implicated in the drive for knowledge-based economic growth, as cities embrace the promise of the knowledge economy (Graham 2002;May and Perry 2018). Flagship projects, investments in large cultural organisations and the provision of cultural opportunities take precedence over historic spaces, everyday leisure or community assets (Gilmore 2017). Natural heritage and urban nature often now feature in urban revitalisation strategies, both within cultural strategies and wider environmental policies.…”

Section: Cultural Heritage and Urban Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural heritage entanglements: festivals as integrative sites for sustainable urban development

Perry

Ager

Sitas

2019

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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Whilst the importance of cultural heritage in sustainable urban development has been increasingly recognised in policy frameworks at multiple levels, there remains a lack of understanding about how global and international goals land in different places. This paper specifically addresses this question through a study of 18 festivals across the Global North and South. We argue that festivals are integrative sites in which tangible and intangible heritage properties are entangled: bidirectional, co-dependent and non-linear. Given the critical role in linking urban contexts and histories with immaterial experience and meaning in the city, we argue that festivals can illuminate wider concerns. Specifically, this means seeing festivals as part of the 'new heritage paradigm' and assessing their contribution to processes of just urban transformations. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Cultural Heritage and Urban Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cultural heritage entanglements: festivals as integrative sites for sustainable urban development

Perry

Ager

Sitas

2019

International Journal of Heritage Studies

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“…through shared values or group membership, but rather mutual recognition that itself may offer looser ties of affiliation or connection based on shared activities and practices (Gilmore, 2017).…”

Section: Conditions For Convivialitymentioning

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Everyday encounters with difference in urban parks: forging ‘openness to otherness’ in segmenting cities

Barker

Crawford

Booth

et al. 2019

International Journal of Law in Context

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In a context of hyper-diversity and social polarisation, it has been suggested that public parks constitute crucial arenas in which to safeguard deliberative democracy and foster social relations that bind loosely connected strangers. Drawing on empirical research, we offer a more circumspect and nuanced understanding of thenonetheless vitalrole that parks can play in fostering civic norms that support the capacity for living with difference. As 'spaces apart', parks have distinctive atmospheres that afford opportunities for convivial encounters in which 'indifference to difference' underpins 'openness to otherness'. As places in which difference is rendered routine and unremarkable, the potency of parks for social cohesion derives from fleeting and unanticipated interactions and the weak ties they promote, rather than strong bonds of community that tend to solidify lines of cultural differentiation. Both by design and unintentionally, regulation and law can serve to foster or constrain the conditions that sustain conviviality.

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“…The significance of third places for women's engagement in city life has gained greater attention in the political context of 'austerity' measures in the United Kingdom where cuts to local services have severely reduced public leisure provision from libraries, childcare, sport facilities, programmes and parks (Gilmore 2017;Jensen and Tyler 2012). Caddock (2017 pp.…”

Section: Third Places That Facilitate Social Connectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminist perspectives on third places

Fullagar¹

2019

Rethinking Third Places

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The park and the commons: vernacular spaces for everyday participation and cultural value

Cited by 38 publications

References 9 publications

Cultural heritage entanglements: festivals as integrative sites for sustainable urban development

Cultural heritage entanglements: festivals as integrative sites for sustainable urban development

Everyday encounters with difference in urban parks: forging ‘openness to otherness’ in segmenting cities

Feminist perspectives on third places

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