We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Du passé, faisons table rase? La controverse patrimoniale comme révélateur de luttes d'appropriation de l'espace.
- Authors
TAICLET, ANNE-FRANCE
- Abstract
This paper analyses a controversy surrounding the conservation of disused pitheads in a former mining area in France. The mobilization around this issue, as well as the lack thereof, reveals a variety of positions with regard to the actual and symbolic appropriation of urban space. An analysis of the breakdown of different attitudes (hostile, favourable or indifferent) shows a configuration of various actors and groups (cultural administration, elected officials, heritage association, trade unions, residents) whose relationships to the issue and reasons for acting are specific and largely incompatible. The conservation of traces of the industrial past, in the particular form of a heritage designation, is thus associated with a form of voluntarism, about which it is interesting to observe the optimal conditions within a given territorial space. The ultimate failure of conservation efforts highlights the weak institutional, political and social independence of the cultural repertoire of spatial organization
- Subjects
MONTCEAU-les-Mines (France); FRANCE; COAL mining; HISTORY of labor unions; LABOR unions; CHARBONNAGES de France (Company); PRESERVATION of cultural property; NONPROFIT organizations -- Political activity; TWENTIETH century
- Publication
Lien Social et Politiques, 2015, Issue 73, p15
- ISSN
1204-3206
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.7202/1030949ar