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How Conservation Matters: ethnographic explorations of historic building renovation

Yarrow, T.

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This article focuses on ideas of historic conservation, examining the multiple ways in which these are made to matter through practices of renovation. Bypassing normatively inflected literatures on heritage, the author adopts a more ‘agnostic’ ethnographic approach, highlighting how conservation involves an imperative of continuity that is elaborated in a multiplicity of ways by conservation and construction professionals, and inhabitants of old buildings. This focus brings to light a series of dynamics that have received limited attention, demonstrating how conservation is practically substantiated in a range of ways including materially, bodily, emotionally, ethically and conceptually.

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Yarrow, T. (2019). How Conservation Matters: ethnographic explorations of historic building renovation. Journal of Material Culture, 24(1), 3-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183518769111

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Apr 27, 2018
Online Publication Date Apr 29, 2018
Publication Date Mar 31, 2019
Deposit Date Apr 27, 2018
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Journal of Material Culture
Print ISSN 1359-1835
Electronic ISSN 1460-3586
Publisher SAGE Publications
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 24
Issue 1
Pages 3-21
DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183518769111

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