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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_105
dc.contributor.author	Dines Nick
dc.title	The contested nature of heritage and the dilemmas of building cultural citizenship: the case of Italy
dc.type	Chapter
dc.language.iso	it
dc.description.abstract	This chapter considers the contested nature of cultural heritage and public memory in the context of two earthquake-hit cities, L’Aquila and Naples. It reflects upon how the underly- ing di erences that are constitutive of the politics of heritage and memory become exposed in the event of a disaster and how disparate understandings and uses of heritage at the same time call into question the grandiloquent posturing of public intellectuals who view the architectural patrimony of Italy’s historic centres as a cornerstone to cultivating a national cultural citizen- ship. Drawing on Spivak’s idea of strategic essentialism, it is argued that if cultural heritage is to be e ectively mobilized to counter undesirable reconstruction programmes or to resist the threat of speculation and evictions in historic centres, attention needs to be continually paid to its conceptual limits and internal di erences otherwise heritage risks becoming the basis for an exclusionary and remonstrative vision of citizenship.
dc.relation.ispartof	Sapere l’Europa, sapere d’Europa
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2015-12-01
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/en/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-054-9/the-contested-nature-of-heritage-and-the-dilemmas/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-052-5/SE-3-8
dc.identifier.issn	2611-0040
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9247
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-054-9
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-052-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Contested heritage
dc.subject	Contested heritage
dc.subject	Cultural citizenship
dc.subject	Cultural citizenship
dc.subject	Strategic essentialism
dc.subject	Strategic essentialism

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The contested nature of heritage and the dilemmas of building cultural citizenship: the case of Italy

Nick Dines Middlesex University

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This chapter considers the contested nature of cultural heritage and public memory in the context of two earthquake-hit cities, L’Aquila and Naples. It reflects upon how the underly- ing di erences that are constitutive of the politics of heritage and memory become exposed in the event of a disaster and how disparate understandings and uses of heritage at the same time call into question the grandiloquent posturing of public intellectuals who view the architectural patrimony of Italy’s historic centres as a cornerstone to cultivating a national cultural citizen- ship. Drawing on Spivak’s idea of strategic essentialism, it is argued that if cultural heritage is to be e ectively mobilized to counter undesirable reconstruction programmes or to resist the threat of speculation and evictions in historic centres, attention needs to be continually paid to its conceptual limits and internal di erences otherwise heritage risks becoming the basis for an exclusionary and remonstrative vision of citizenship.

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Keywords: Strategic essentialism • Contested heritage • Cultural citizenship

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