A bureaucracy of care in managing Hampi World Heritage Site

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2990730
AutoresKrupa Rajangam (0000-0003-4274-7244, National Institute of Advanced Studies, autor de correspondencia)
Año2020
Volumen20
Número2
Páginas144-165
Fecha de publicación2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Social Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1469-6053 • E-ISSN: 1741-2951
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1469605319893532
OpenAlexW2997885733
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas30

In this paper I examine the 'heritage regime' instituted at Hampi, Karnataka, India, consequent to its inscription as World Heritage, by analysing everyday material practices of conservation-management at the site through the lens of 'care'. I argue that the regime is undoubtedly a bureaucracy as popularly imagined - but of care premised on knowledge and not of apathy. I suggest that various ongoing contestations amongst social actors are over the appropriateness of care, based on a particular visual aesthetic, which results in spatio-temporal material alienation of resident communities. Confusing consequence for cause, practice seeks to 'engage' with people whose alienation from 'official' heritage they are party to inevitably leads to everyday 'heartbreak' for experts, disillusionment among residents, and a conflicted position for local heritage agencies, albeit unintentionally

Aesthetics · Alienation · Apathy · Art · Bureaucracy · Cultural heritage · Environmental ethics · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Law · Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies