The Right to Speak and to Exist of Heritage Communities

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Abstract

Heritage Communities (HCs) often are formed as civic structures in opposition to public decisions which are perceived as dangerous with regard to their quality of life and protection of places that give shape to their identity. This puts them in the uncomfortable position of being perceived as the No-Side. To overcome this situation, many HCs developed over time a more proactive approach. The HCs are now fully aware of not being structures of representation, they do not 'represent' anybody: they are the active citizenship and they claim for a clear political role. Only the shared governance; only the shared decisional power can be considered 'participative' in the full sense of the term.


open access | peer reviewed

Presentato: 20 Dicembre 2016 | Accettato: 21 Marzo 2017 | Pubblicato 31 Dicembre 2017 | Lingua: en

Keywords Participation • Heritage Community • Active Citizenship

Copyright © 2017 Adriano De Vita. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-052-5/SE-4-24


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