Finally doing South America right: I’ve been here for three days and this is my first red wine. A manic couple of days in Buenos Aires and Colonia in Uruguay and just got to Santiago for some critical heritage fun times #achs #achs2022 #criticalheritage #santiago #criticalheritagestudies

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This study argues that Critical Heritage Studies can occupy the discursive gap between the art historical accounts of the event [Deller’s Battle of Orgreave, 2001] and the objections to its ethical and authorial frame posited by social history. Deller’s project’s opposition to AHD and its privileging of ‘feel good’ histories marks out the project as symptomatic of new critical heritage forms. With its open-ended dialogic, anti-nostalgic elevation of ongoing emotional trauma and emphasis on keeping wounds open rather than sympathetic reconciliation, this project – on paper at least – demands consideration from new perspectives in working class intangible heritage (Russo & Linkon, 2005; Robertson, 2008; West, 2010).

Cite: Juliff T, 'The Battle of Orgreave (1984)' Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present, ed LJ Smith et. al. (2018) pp.85-101

#criticalheritagestudies #ahd #intangibleheritage #reenactment #contemporaryart #ethics #workingclasshistory

Just gave this a read, and wow! Thanks to Magdalena Novoa (@magdanovoae on Birdsite) for a great piece of community-based, collaborative fieldwork, set in a framework of #criticalheritagestudies.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1468-2427.13143