(Other) territorialities of heritage: the heterotopic spaces of the historic city

Abstract

Heritage as a validation device for certain forms of memory would justify the imposition of a dominant culture, expressed not only in material elements, but also in places of memory. The objective of the manuscript is to analyze the process by which some social actors, generally excluded from hegemonic patrimonial representations, must articulate themselves with a new narrative of the historic city as heritage. In this new discourse of the historic city, other territorialities are enacted that Foucault calls heterotopic spaces. At a methodological level, from a theoretical point of view, a broad conceptualization of space is carried out as a historical problem, referring to examples from some cities such as Dublin, Paris, Madrid or Ibagué, from which specific readings were made on the configuration of other spatialities, which they were generally excluded from the dominant way of defining heritage in historic cities. It concludes with the need to link these new places of memory to a new redefinition of historic cities, with a view to a more inclusive planning of heritage spaces.

Keywords:
Heritage; Historic city; Territorialities; Patrimonialization; Urban heterotopias