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Valuing Historic Environments: Concepts, Instrumentalisations and Effects. Lisanne Gibson University of Leicester. Valuing Historic Emvironments. 1.: What was it? House of Lords Science and Heritage Inquiry AHRC/ EPSRC Science and Heritage Funding Programme. 2. Why ‘Instrumentalisation’?.
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Valuing Historic Environments: Concepts, Instrumentalisations and Effects Lisanne Gibson University of Leicester
Valuing Historic Emvironments • 1.: What was it? • House of Lords Science and Heritage Inquiry • AHRC/ EPSRC Science and Heritage Funding Programme
3. Discussions of Value • Pluralisation of value • Cultural, economic, political and social consequences of the pluralisation of value • Pluralisation of disciplines involved in establishing value in relation to historic environments
4. The problem of multidisciplinarity and ‘languages’ of heritage
‘Educating communities to research and defend their places of value is easier to justify than the determination that such places are to be protected by law against development. Such an approach avoids some of the dilemmas … in that it does not measure, define, judge or paralyse places of social value. Rather it empowers and enables people to define themselves and places as part of the general development of democratic social life’. (Kim Dovey) How might it be possible to empower communities in this way?