RT Article
T1 How conservation matters: Ethnographic explorations of historic building renovation
JF Journal of material culture
VO 24
IS 1
SP 3
OP 21
A1 Yarrow, Thomas 1977-
LA English
PB Sage Publ.
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1690931809
AB 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.
K1 Buildings
K1 Conservation
K1 Energy
K1 Environment
K1 Heritage
K1 Knowledge
K1 Time
DO 10.1177/1359183518769111