On Keeping and Selling
The Political Economy of Heritage Making in Contemporary Spain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2223391 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jaume Franquesa (0000-0003-1774-5546) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 346-369 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/670620 |
| OpenAlex | W2205843941 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 56 |
In recent years, heritage has become a hegemonic idiom helping to legitimize, but also resist, the gentrification and private appropriation of urban space in a global conjuncture dominated by neoliberal policies and voracious real estate pressures. Through the analysis of a conflict around a historical building in a gentrifying neighborhood in Palma (Spain), and drawing on recent contributions analyzing the processual character of cultural heritage as well as on Annette Weiner's theoretical insights on inalienability, the article explores the economic logic that underpins this hegemonic character of heritage. My analysis shows that the loose articulation of developers, gentrifiers, preservationists, expert discourses, and municipal policies is made possible by and enforces an objectifying definition of heritage as an enclosed, incommensurable sphere. This definition, even if detrimental to individual developers, is consistent with the abstract yet differentiated space the marketization of the area requires. In an urban policy context characterized by progressively weaker regulations, this dominant discourse works as an unlikely arbiter capable of effecting a piecemeal, contingent coordination between the particular and general interests of developers, while diffusing the struggles of those actors who, by connecting heritage to everyday practices and to broader issues of political economy, may challenge those interests altogether
Aesthetics · Appropriation · Archaeology · Articulation (sociology · Commodification · Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Epistemology · Gentrification · Hegemony · Law and economics · Marketization · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Real estate · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · History · Law · Urban Planning and Governance
Assembling the Historic City
Rethinking Patrimony Through the Problem of Hoarding
Gater, torg og heterotopier i byen. En kommentar til de siste års hendelser i Paris
“Everything Here Is for Sale, Even Our History”
Cultural anxiety and re-imagining ethnic heritage in post-Soviet Georgia
Heritage agnosticism
Commons, Associations, and Possibilities of Egalitarian Life in Paris, France
Dramatising Cultural Diversity
O fim do jogo
Heritage making and interpretation in postcolonial Harbin
We gave the city its image and put it on the map.’
Voices of protest and the right to the city in the context of overtourism
Touristification and displacement. The long-standing production of Venice as a tourist attraction
Adaptation in cultural industry under conservation pressure
Framing a counter-city
Ripping the Heart out of Ancoats
Old cities, ‘new’ agendas
The Case of the Recurring Wodaabe
Unesco action plans as dispositifs of canonisation. The woodcrafting knowledge of the Zafimaniry of Madagascar
The Yangon Court Buildings
Unlocking Contentious Heritage Matters
Commercialization without over-commercialization
An 'alternative framework for development
Digging in the water?' Grassroots urbanism, the Egyptian state, and the politics of heritage-making in post-revolution Cairo
Engaging the everyday
Heritage conservation as a territorialised urban strategy
Heritage and rural gentrification in Spain
Vital properties and Afro-Brazilian lives
A rampant heritage? Problematising heritage activism through the Casa del Pumarejo social movement
The quest for a traditional style
Reflecting on heritage and power
Contested urban assemblages
Don't Change the Hardware, but the Activities
Los engaños temporales del oso. La producción de una reserva en el Pirineo catalán basada en la restauración de un paisaje
Hem perdut es concepte' Espai, Turisme, i els límits del gir de la mobilitat
Urban tourism via dispossession of oeuvres
How conservation matters
When Cultural and Natural Patrimony Collide
Matters of Patrimony
Policing's Productive Folds
Squatters make history in New York
Gucci and the waqf
The Year 2013 in Sociocultural Anthropology
Looting Made Legal
The Embarrassment of Heritage Alienability
World Heritage and WikiLeaks
The Past is a Foreign Country
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Monumental Ambivalence
Social Justice and the City
The Vanishing Hectare
The Seven Lamps of Architecture
The cultural biography of things
Time and the Other
The Social Life of Things
The Invention of Tradition
Money and the morality of exchange
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Marxism, Ideology and Literature
Immediate Struggles
Economic Action and Social Structure
Reassembling the Social
The Gift
Fent barri
Not Ours Alone
The Nature of Heritage
Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism”
The Heritage-scape
The Struggle over Place
Inalienable Possessions
Everyday Forms of State Formation
The field of cultural production, or
Culture, Content, and the Enclosure of Human Being
Market Threads
The cattle of money and the cattle of girls among the Nuer, 1930-83
Cultural Difference and the Density of Objects
Christian Moderns
Toward An Anthropological Theory of Value
Evicted from Eternity
Inalienable Commodities
Between heritage and countermemory
Moonshine, money, and the politics of liquidity in rural Russia
The Marketing of Heritage
The Empire of Things
The Obsolete "Anti-Market" Mentality
A Place in History
Spatial Cleansing
Public Health, Patronage and National Culture
Creative Heritage
Outside the glass case
Sharing culture or selling out? Developing the commodified persona in the heritage industry
Engagement, Gentrification, and the Neoliberal Hijacking of History
Capitalism and the Politics of Resignation
The Project in the Model
| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,83 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |