Social valuation of protected cultural assets: the railway heritage between Jundiai and Campinas (Brazil)

Author(s)

de Oliveira, Eduardo Romero ; Silva, M. M. ; de Deus, Julia ; Santana Junior, Evandro ; Costa, Amanda ; Lara, Ana Patricia ; Santos, Brenda ; Berata, Thais ; Bueno, Victoria

• Document type: Journal article
• Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HERITAGE STUDIES; v. 28, n. 6, p. 19-pg., 2022-05-05.

Abstract

Given the shortcomings of traditional heritage preservation practices in understanding the values that justify heritage protection, it is necessary to critically re-evaluate these practices adopted to physically protect the cultural asset, which rarely include the local values ascribed by the surrounding communities. This reflection motivated the development of this study that aims to examine the social valuation ascribed to protected railway assets on the route Jundiai-Campinas (Brazil), in order to compare the different identified values and reflect on the integrated actions of railway heritage preservation and management. To this end, a values-based approach (VBA) was used, a methodology employed for and centred on heritage preservation, which focuses on understanding the local community as one of the protagonists in the heritage valuation process. Applying the different techniques of the VBA method revealed that other values, besides the traditional ones dominant in the specialised dissemination of the subject, also have an impact on the heritage asset. By integrating these community values to the protection and management practices of the cultural asset, it is indeed possible to significantly protect and safeguard not only the monumental object but also its values. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 16/15921-2 - Railway Memory - Inventory and activation of industrial heritage in interdisciplinary perspectives
• Grantee: Eduardo Romero de Oliveira
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• FAPESP's process: 20/04479-2 - Tour guides and their role in the interpretation of heritage in tourist itineraries of railroad industrial heritage (Campinas, SP)
• Grantee: Ana Patricia Martinez Lara
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• FAPESP's process: 19/15358-4 - Campinas railway heritage: the heritage interpretation and the tourism
• Grantee: Victória Antunes Bueno
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• FAPESP's process: 20/04383-5 - Campinas Jaguariúna railway: research on the identity of perception in a tourist train
• Grantee: Amanda Augusta da Costa
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• FAPESP's process: 17/06220-3 - Complexo FEPASA in Jundiaí-SP: Viability of new social uses to industrial heritage
• Grantee: Milena Meira da Silva
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• FAPESP's process: 19/13909-3 - Photographic record and industrial heritage: the contribution of the visual record to the touristic inventory of the industrial heritage of Campinas (SP)
• Grantee: Thaís Bassichetto Berata
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• FAPESP's process: 18/23340-5 - Activation of railway heritage in interdisciplinary Methodologies
• Grantee: Eduardo Romero de Oliveira
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• FAPESP's process: 19/07237-2 - Campinas railway station: inventory of community perception about a listed railway complex
• Grantee: Brenda Letícia Lichewiski dos Santos
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation