Normative Gaps between Communities and Collective Identities in Governing Cultural Heritage
Normative Gaps between Communities and Collective Identities in Governing Cultural Heritage

An Argument on How to Apply Hobbesian and Lockean Theories to Restore the Political Dignity of Communities in Their Role to Safeguard Cultural Heritage

Author(s): Oana Șerban
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Culture and social structure , Geopolitics
Published by: Trivent Publishing
Keywords: cultural heritage; private property; community; collective identity; state; common ownership; imagined communities; nations; tangible / intangible forms of cultural heritage.
Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the conceptual and normative gaps between “communities” and “collective identities” enrolled as shareholders of cultural heritage. I will examine how the absence of the political determinations of communities in governing cultural heritage can be solved by investing a particular perspective on “imagined communities”, regarded as nations represented by specific forms of patrimony, or by restoring older modern theories on social contract and private property, authorized by Hobbes and Locke. In this latter instance, both modern philosophers explain the consecution and implications between community, collective identity and state, arguing that the shift from one to another increases the reasons to accept common ownership on collective properties understood as tangible or intangible forms of cultural heritage.

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