TY - JOUR
KW - Gelassenheit
KW - heritage
KW - heritage value
KW - intangible heritage
KW - modern ruins
KW - ruination
KW - thingness
AU - Pora Petursdottir
AB - Intangibility has become a trendy term within heritage studies and is now even considered to refer to heritage in general. This article discusses this development, along with its integrity and consequences for the fate of things in the heritage discourse. With reference to the concrete ruins of Iceland s recent past it addresses the traditional and contemporary processes of discrimination and othering within heritage definitions, and the often fragile dialectic between heritage and waste. With a foothold in these very concrete and tangible remains the article questions the emerging claim  that all heritage is intangible  and suggests that a broader heritage conception, and a true concern for the very tangible qualities of things, may bring us closer to a comprehension of the (heritage) value of these modern ruins.
BT - Journal of Social Archaeology
DA - feb
DO - 10.1177/1469605312456342
LA - English
M1 - 1
N2 - Intangibility has become a trendy term within heritage studies and is now even considered to refer to heritage in general. This article discusses this development, along with its integrity and consequences for the fate of things in the heritage discourse. With reference to the concrete ruins of Iceland s recent past it addresses the traditional and contemporary processes of discrimination and othering within heritage definitions, and the often fragile dialectic between heritage and waste. With a foothold in these very concrete and tangible remains the article questions the emerging claim  that all heritage is intangible  and suggests that a broader heritage conception, and a true concern for the very tangible qualities of things, may bring us closer to a comprehension of the (heritage) value of these modern ruins.
PY - 2013
SP - 31
EP - 53
T2 - Journal of Social Archaeology
TI - Concrete matters: Ruins of modernity and the things called heritage
VL - 13
SN - 14696053 (ISSN)
ER -