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| Id | 140 | |
| Author | Beeksma, A., ; Chiara , D., C. | |
| Title | Participatory heritage in a gentrifying neighbourhood: Amsterdam’s Van Eesteren Museum as affective space of negotiations | |
| Reference | Beeksma, A. & Chiara, D.C. (2019) Participatory heritage in a gentrifying neighbourhood: Amsterdam’s Van Eesteren Museum as affective space of negotiations. International Journal of Heritage Studies, Volume 25 (9), 974-991 |
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| Link to article | https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2018.1509230 |
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| Abstract | In this article we analyse the Van Eesteren Museum as a technique of local governmentality. This small but growing institution aims to preserve and showcase the modernist urban planning and architecture of the disadvantaged Amsterdam neighbourhood of Slotermeer. Built on volunteers, residents' participation played a crucial role in its creation and still does in its day-to-day operation. While many see the museum as a bottom-up project, upon closer inspection, this participatory heritage project appears more ambivalent, effectively functioning as a platform for mediating conflicting interests and agendas in an urban context that is heavily shaped by local and national policies of urban renewal. This neighbourhood museum responds to a specific Dutch policy of state-led gentrification aimed at promoting social control while actually (unintentionally) producing social cleavages. Only a very specific and rather homogenous group of residents volunteer for the museum, other residents with more diverse backgrounds do not really participate. While the Van Eesteren Museum is rooted in this specific Dutch context, we argue that it points to the relevance of heritage to a new rationality of decentralised local governance based on producing caring' and feeling' citizens. |
Participatory heritage in a gentrifying neighbourhood: Amsterdam’s Van Eesteren Museum as affective space of negotiations. While the Van Eesteren Museum is rooted in this specific Dutch context, we argue that it points to the relevance of heritage to a new rationality of decentralised local governance based on producing caring' and feeling' citizens. another volunteer encourages the host to make the place a bit more gezellig a very popular dutch word meaning cosy pleasant or amiable for the volunteers and the expected visitors. like most of the airey residents ahmad has only visited the van eesteren museum across the street from his house once when the museum hosted a special debate on the urban renewal plans for the area and the future of the airey blocks in particular. while the predicaments and contradictions of the van eesteren museum cannot be generalised to all cases of participatory heritage we believe that the story we have told in the previous pages does point to the need for careful examinations of the pragmatics of participatory heritage practice beyond celebratory tones.
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