Keywords
railway heritage
cultural landscape
Imaginary
memory and identity
appropriations and meanings
heritage management
Antioquia railway
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Abstract
The idea of the railroad of Antioquia as the structuring system of the territory, and particularly, as a patrimonial category of ‘cultural itinerary,’ raises a reading that goes beyond a simple list of movable and immovable property of cultural interest scattered in a geography –that in the last decades have been subject to abandonment and obsolescence– with significant changes in the dynamics of settlement, multidimensional exchange, and permanence of the surrounding communities. A new scenario of creations and representations, built from memory and social imaginaries, has allowed revealing identity keys that in the category of cultural itinerary are constituted as established by Icomos (2008), in shared common values. This, therefore, leads to emerging management potential to set its value as a heritage resource from the perspective of human scale development. This work allows revealing those identity versions that have been constructed from the local and daily environment of the railway communities and that transcend the official discourse, extending the spectrum of valuation over to the intangible scenario of appropriations and meanings, in the construction of new stories, and therefore, of new roads towards the activation and participative management of the railway itinerary.
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