Jennifer Welchman
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190240318
- eISBN:
- 9780190240349
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190240318.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Mindful of the keen public interest in heritage preservation, environmental organizations have routinely characterized nature as a “heritage” asset to be preserved for future generations. But while ...
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Mindful of the keen public interest in heritage preservation, environmental organizations have routinely characterized nature as a “heritage” asset to be preserved for future generations. But while doing so has often proved effective for winning public support for environmental initiatives, it can lead to a conflation of environmental with “natural heritage” stewardship that is at best misleading and at worst can undermine both endeavors. The chapter uses a failed campaign to nominate the Annapolis River to Canada’s Heritage Rivers program to illustrate the problems that can arise when divergences between these two forms of stewardship are overlooked. Recognizing the differences is essential if we are to maximize our changes of achieving a satisfactory convergence between them.Less
Mindful of the keen public interest in heritage preservation, environmental organizations have routinely characterized nature as a “heritage” asset to be preserved for future generations. But while doing so has often proved effective for winning public support for environmental initiatives, it can lead to a conflation of environmental with “natural heritage” stewardship that is at best misleading and at worst can undermine both endeavors. The chapter uses a failed campaign to nominate the Annapolis River to Canada’s Heritage Rivers program to illustrate the problems that can arise when divergences between these two forms of stewardship are overlooked. Recognizing the differences is essential if we are to maximize our changes of achieving a satisfactory convergence between them.
Katrin Paadam and Liis Ojamäe
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781447310129
- eISBN:
- 9781447310143
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447310129.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
The expropriation of land and property in Estonia under the post-Second World War socialist regime was reversed in the restitution and privatisation of housing in the early 1990s. Until 1991, the ...
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The expropriation of land and property in Estonia under the post-Second World War socialist regime was reversed in the restitution and privatisation of housing in the early 1990s. Until 1991, the socialist system concentrated on new construction rather than the restoration or renovation of the older, nationalised housing stock, which deteriorated from lack of investment. The 1990s brought a new framework for housing policy; a concern for the preservation of heritage buildings; and a realisation of the difficulties in getting flat owners to collaborate in the management, maintenance and renewal of their housing. By the 2000s, housing improvement was being encouraged, though on a small scale, by the provision of grants and loan guarantees; and in response to the need for energy efficiency. The emphasis of policy is, however, still on the renewal of single blocks rather than areas of housing. There is no estimate yet of the total dwellings requiring improvement and the likely costs involved. The chapter presents three case studies of housing renewal, from Tallinn and Rakvere: one in a district with housing of heritage value; one in an area of large-scale standard housing blocks from the 1960s–80s; and one, still in the planning stage, in an area of mixed housing, which takes the neighbourhood as a starting point for the improvement of residential quality.Less
The expropriation of land and property in Estonia under the post-Second World War socialist regime was reversed in the restitution and privatisation of housing in the early 1990s. Until 1991, the socialist system concentrated on new construction rather than the restoration or renovation of the older, nationalised housing stock, which deteriorated from lack of investment. The 1990s brought a new framework for housing policy; a concern for the preservation of heritage buildings; and a realisation of the difficulties in getting flat owners to collaborate in the management, maintenance and renewal of their housing. By the 2000s, housing improvement was being encouraged, though on a small scale, by the provision of grants and loan guarantees; and in response to the need for energy efficiency. The emphasis of policy is, however, still on the renewal of single blocks rather than areas of housing. There is no estimate yet of the total dwellings requiring improvement and the likely costs involved. The chapter presents three case studies of housing renewal, from Tallinn and Rakvere: one in a district with housing of heritage value; one in an area of large-scale standard housing blocks from the 1960s–80s; and one, still in the planning stage, in an area of mixed housing, which takes the neighbourhood as a starting point for the improvement of residential quality.
Laurel Kendall (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824833930
- eISBN:
- 9780824870416
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824833930.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This book explores the irony of modern things made in the image of a traditional “us.” It describes the multifaceted ways “tradition” is produced and consumed within the frame of contemporary Korean ...
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This book explores the irony of modern things made in the image of a traditional “us.” It describes the multifaceted ways “tradition” is produced and consumed within the frame of contemporary Korean life and how these processes are enabled by different apparatuses of modernity that Koreans first encountered in the early twentieth century. Commoditized goods and services first appeared in the colonial period in such spectacular and spectacularly foreign forms as department stores, restaurants, exhibitions, and staged performances. Today, these same forms have become the media through which many Koreans consume “tradition” in multiple forms. In the colonial period, commercial representations of Korea—tourist sites, postcard images, souvenir miniatures, and staged performances—were produced primarily for foreign consumption, often by non-Koreans. In late modernity, efficiencies of production, communication, and transportation combine with material wealth and new patterns of leisure activity and tourism to enable the localized consumption of Korean tradition in theme parks, at sites of alternative tourism, at cultural festivals and performances, as handicrafts, art, and cuisine, and in coffee table books, broadcast music, and works of popular folklore. This book offers insight into how and why different signifiers of “Korea” have come to be valued as tradition in the present tense, the distinctive histories and contemporary anxieties that undergird this process, and how Koreans today experience their sense of a common Korean past. It offers new insights into issues of national identity, heritage preservation, tourism, performance, the commodification of contemporary life, and the nature of “tradition” and “modernity” more generally.Less
This book explores the irony of modern things made in the image of a traditional “us.” It describes the multifaceted ways “tradition” is produced and consumed within the frame of contemporary Korean life and how these processes are enabled by different apparatuses of modernity that Koreans first encountered in the early twentieth century. Commoditized goods and services first appeared in the colonial period in such spectacular and spectacularly foreign forms as department stores, restaurants, exhibitions, and staged performances. Today, these same forms have become the media through which many Koreans consume “tradition” in multiple forms. In the colonial period, commercial representations of Korea—tourist sites, postcard images, souvenir miniatures, and staged performances—were produced primarily for foreign consumption, often by non-Koreans. In late modernity, efficiencies of production, communication, and transportation combine with material wealth and new patterns of leisure activity and tourism to enable the localized consumption of Korean tradition in theme parks, at sites of alternative tourism, at cultural festivals and performances, as handicrafts, art, and cuisine, and in coffee table books, broadcast music, and works of popular folklore. This book offers insight into how and why different signifiers of “Korea” have come to be valued as tradition in the present tense, the distinctive histories and contemporary anxieties that undergird this process, and how Koreans today experience their sense of a common Korean past. It offers new insights into issues of national identity, heritage preservation, tourism, performance, the commodification of contemporary life, and the nature of “tradition” and “modernity” more generally.
Kwame Dixon and John Burdick
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780813037561
- eISBN:
- 9780813043098
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813037561.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
Chapter 1 examines the spiritual, social, and philosophical basis of Bantu Blackness as well as the social justice ethos of Bantu activists in Bahia, Brazil.
Chapter 1 examines the spiritual, social, and philosophical basis of Bantu Blackness as well as the social justice ethos of Bantu activists in Bahia, Brazil.
James Nugent
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781501706547
- eISBN:
- 9781501712692
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501706547.003.0007
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Public and Welfare
This chapter explores the difficulties of attempting to bring the different moments of the production process together in a deindustrialized low-income neighborhood in Toronto's inner suburbs. Here, ...
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This chapter explores the difficulties of attempting to bring the different moments of the production process together in a deindustrialized low-income neighborhood in Toronto's inner suburbs. Here, a resident organization backed by the Communication, Energy, and Paperworkers Union (now UNIFOR), the Steelworkers, and the local labor council sought revitalization through green manufacturing, rather than a future of gentrification and big-box retail employment envisioned by developers and the city. The chapter then traces the evolution of the campaign from a focus on industrial heritage preservation to green jobs, and ultimately a broader antipoverty campaign that incorporated gender, race, and ecology. Although the campaign failed to attract a private-sector firm to invest in the site, the coalition managed to overcome some of the dilemmas that labor has faced in similar site fights in the city.Less
This chapter explores the difficulties of attempting to bring the different moments of the production process together in a deindustrialized low-income neighborhood in Toronto's inner suburbs. Here, a resident organization backed by the Communication, Energy, and Paperworkers Union (now UNIFOR), the Steelworkers, and the local labor council sought revitalization through green manufacturing, rather than a future of gentrification and big-box retail employment envisioned by developers and the city. The chapter then traces the evolution of the campaign from a focus on industrial heritage preservation to green jobs, and ultimately a broader antipoverty campaign that incorporated gender, race, and ecology. Although the campaign failed to attract a private-sector firm to invest in the site, the coalition managed to overcome some of the dilemmas that labor has faced in similar site fights in the city.
