(Re)Making heritage policy in Hong Kong: : a relational politics of global knowledge and local innovation

• Autores: Lachlan Barber
• Localización: Urban Studies, ISSN-e 1360-063X, Vol. 51, Nº. 6, 2014, págs. 1179-1195
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article applies the global-relational conceptual frame developed in recent work on urban policy mobilities to heritage, a seemingly local policy area, in Hong Kong. In response to growing public criticism and protests in the past decade, the Hong Kong government launched a review of its heritage policy and the related institutional framework. This was largely an �extrospective� process involving comparison and learning from other places. The article reviews this exercise, using as a case study a tertiary education programme that is a key node of heritage policy learning. The article shows that innovation must respond to the territorial specificities of land administration, culture and politics, and thus must be assembled locally�albeit in correspondence with globally circulating models and practices. Conceptually, the article proposes the need to understand the local politics of urban heritage from a relational perspective, attentive to both collective claims and interests and neoliberal governance.