Contested Space: A Place on the Way to Collaborative Government?(Essay) Contested Space: A Place on the Way to Collaborative Government?(Essay)

Contested Space: A Place on the Way to Collaborative Government?(Essay‪)‬

Ethnologies 2005, Fall, 27, 2

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L'annonce faite en 1999 par le gouvernement de Terre-Neuve et du Labrador de la construction d'un complexe culturel et patrimonial de 40 millions de dollars, du nom de The Rooms, pour remplacer les batiments en desagregation du musee historique, du musee des Beaux-Arts et des archives de la Province, aurait du etre accueillie avec enthousiasme. Elle s'ensuivit au contraire d'un aigre debat public qui alla presque jusqu'a faire annuler le projet. Le debat portait sur le fait que le gouvernement avait choisi un fort du XVIIIe siecle pour l'emplacement de la nouvelle construction. Cet article decrit la genese du projet ayant provoque ce debat public et relate les discussions au fur et a mesure que s'est developpee la contestation concernant l'emplacement du batiment. La controverse de The Rooms et les evenements qui y ont mis fin illustrent puissamment l'importance de la consultation du public dans les prises de decision gouvernementales en matiere de patrimoine. Ce debat demontre aussi fortement la maniere dont differents groupes d'interet revendiquent competence et autorite sur les questions de conservation et d'interpretation du patrimoine. The announcement in 1999 by the government of Newfoundland and Labrador of a new $40 million cultural heritage complex, known as The Rooms, to replace the crumbling buildings of the provincial art gallery, museum, and archives should have been greeted by celebration. Instead, a rancourous public debate ensued that threatened to cancel the project. That debate centred on government's choice of an eighteenth century fort site for the new building. This article reviews the genesis of the project which caused the public dispute and traces the discussion as the contest for the building site unfolded. The Rooms controversy, and the events which eventually brought it to a close, powerfully illustrate the importance of public consultation to government decision-making in heritage matters. The debate vividly demonstrates how different interest groups claim authoritative voice around issues of heritage preservation and interpretation.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2005
September 22
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
38
Pages
PUBLISHER
Ethnologies
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
SIZE
217.9
KB
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