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- Bogdanova, Elena, 1976
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“Caring” As Evaluative Practice in the Market for Renovation of Unlisted Historical Buildings
- 2020
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Ingår i: Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics 32nd Annual Meeting, July 20, 2020.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Focused initially on national monuments, the idea of „building care“ has recently shifted to the ordinary contexts of private houses which are not legally protected as cultural heritage. Besides fuelling a rapidly growing circular market for building parts that attracts a large number of market actors, this trend led to a growing public debate about „careful renovation“ that preserves the value of old „unlisted“ houses. In Sweden, the movements such as „I saved a deserted house“ has become a popular trend, and a lifestyle that attracts a diverse group of followers who are not experts in building renovation but who are willing to get involved in the caring activities. This created a need and an opportunity for emerging market where specialized craftsmen, consultants, amateurs and cultural preservation professionals are actively creating professional networks and are aiming at becoming competitors to the conventional building industry. Maria Puig de la Bellacasa argues that care implicates different relationalities, issues and practices in different settings (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2017). In this particular case I am tracing practices of care as practices of valuation articulated in the interview with different market actors and in the online discussion forums. I approach strategies of repair implemented by houseowners and other actors, in which the ideas of care in terms of economic efficiency or affordability of new materials are contrasted to solutions of ethical repair and reuse in a traditional way. Following Puig de la Bellacasa (2011) I trace different understanding and practices of care and valuation as implemented by diverse market actors on the continuum between strong normative commitments and pragmatic “concerns”.
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- Bogdanova, Elena, 1976, et al.
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Catching a black cat in a dark room. Making tenants contributing to sustainable housing
- 2020
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Ingår i: Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), 2020 August 18 - 21, 2020.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Housing is one of the most contested infrastructures of contemporary societies. We approach the issue of interdisciplinarity by exploring tenants' participation in renovation processes explicitly aiming to accomplish sustainability goals. By close empirical case studies conducted in Gothenburg, Sweden, we show how tenants in these processes are both substantially and procedurally kept in a dark room, as an effect of how “inclusiveness” is organized. We argue that tenants are kept in the dark in two respects. On the one hand organizers often refer to the complexity of transdisciplinary knowledge which is difficult to apprehend by non-professionals. On the other hand, tenants are kept in the dark when it comes to the direct consequences of their choices, namely the increase of the rent, because of a time gap between the choice and the effect. Thus, the tenants cannot make judgements on the basis of all the relevant knowledges required. Our analysis reveals how this is a result of how the process is organized rather than a quality that should be ascribed to the tenants. This means that the process is formally fulfilling the demand for inclusiveness, however, when full information is finally revealed to tenants, previously cooperative processes not seldom turn into vivid protest.
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- Bogdanova, Elena, 1976, et al.
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Configuring Objects and Subjects of Care in Built Heritage Management: Experimenting with Storytelling as a Participatory Device in Sweden
- 2021
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Ingår i: Planning Practice & Research. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0269-7459 .- 1360-0583. ; 36:5, s. 553-566
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- As in many other policy areas, there is a rising concern about how to involve the general public in heritage management and preservation. We analyse attempts made by Swedish cultural heritage authorities to initiate new participatory devices. We ask: How is storytelling used as a participatory device? What are the implications of this in terms of how legitimate concerns are reconfigured? Storytelling has a capacity to transform dominant discourses and result in new objects of care. We conclude that even storytelling itself is reconfigured in these practices, resulting in the collection of narratives, with limited transformative effects.
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- Bogdanova, Elena, 1976, et al.
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Hållbar renovering och tidsperspektiv
- 2023
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Ingår i: Scores Rapportserier 2023:1. - Stockholm : SCORE. - 9789188833259 ; , s. 27-32
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- Bogdanova, Elena, 1976, et al.
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Kärnavfall, kulturarv och könsinkongruens
- 2019
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Ingår i: Vetenskaplig medborgarskap (red. Soneryd L, Sundqvist, G). - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144117249 ; , s. 141-168
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- Bogdanova, Elena, 1976, et al.
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Negotiating Heritage. Care and Maintenance of Old Buildings in a Swedish Online Discussion Group.
- 2018
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Ingår i: ACHS Biannual conference. Hangzhou, China, 1-6 Sep 2018.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this paper, we analyze the online discussion group devoted to practices of repair, maintenance and care of ordinary everyday old buildings in Sweden as a space for grass-root politics of heritage making. Here the definitions of heritage and preservation are simultaneously reinforced and challenged by different actors that are involved into the pragmatic discussions on preservation and repair. Our questions are: 1) how heritage and preservation are defined through different practices of repair or ‘matters of concern’ regarding old buildings, and 2) how different group members establish the discursive borders of heritage and preservation and challenge them using the top-down and bottom-up strategies. In order to trace the emergence of different types of pragmatic justifications of heritage and its value, we depart from the notion of ‘multivariate interpretations of buildings as heritage’ (Lowenthal 1998), and approach our questions theoretically by using the concepts of “orders of worth” (Boltanski and Thevenot 1999) and “regimes of engagement” (Thevenot 2001). The forum is initially a bottom-up initiative of heritage enthusiasts, and it was initially created by the representatives of the “enactment of care” with an ongoing moderation of content. However, the organizers of the group are framing their policies along the lines of the authorized heritage discourse and by monitoring and policing are, in fact, exercising the quasi top-down strategy of defining heritage and its preservation. There is interesting and thought-provoking dynamic of heritage-making and its contestation between quasi top-down as represented by forum moderators and quasi bottom-up “ordinary” group members in the discussion threads. Old buildings here appear as embedded in both authorized and ‘popular’ notions of heritage. There are polyvocal understandings/justifications of both ‘preservation’ and ‘change’, and this polyvocality is not only related to the number of participants, but also to the different orders of worth they are relating to. While the preservationist side of the group is trying to keep the buildings within the conventional space of heritage, a group of users (often craftsmen or small conventional construction companies, or owners) are constantly challenging the borders of top-down value judgements and are trying to “move” the building and its repair to the borders of the conventional discourse. They offer alternative bottom-up “enabling solutions” that are received by more orthodox forum members as inappropriate and endangering the efforts of preservation. While heritage enthusiasts are trying to guard and enact the formal discursive borders of how preservation is defined, the “challengers” are trying to blur or loosen them. Both groups are referring to pragmatics and ethics in their justification strategies, but they frame them differently. The group becomes the space created through simultaneous top-down and bottom-up negotiations of heritage values, which is unlikely to appear elsewhere, and where preservation and heritage are contested discursively by being addressed by interest groups using the logics of different “orders of worth”.
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- Bogdanova, Elena, 1976
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RENOVATION AND COLLECTIVE VALUATION OF CARE AND MAINTENANCE OF WOODEN HOUSING IN SWEDEN
- 2018
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Ingår i: Aesop congress proceedings.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Abstract : The purpose of this paper is to approach care and maintenance of wooden housing stock in Sweden which recently became an object of contestation. The focus is on pragmatics of economic activities of houseowners as well as other actors that contrast the ideas of economic efficiency or affordability of new materials to the solutions of ethical repair and reuse in a traditional way. The paper presents empirical analysis and theoretical reflections on issues of economic, cultural and environmental aspects of renovation and preservation, and its different stakes as reflected in public discussion. Theoretically the paper is framed by the concepts of "regimes of engagements" with objects (Thevenot 2001) and "orders of worth" as legitimate evaluations (Boltanski and Thevenot 2006). The empirical material consists of interviews with professionals in the field of renovation of old buildings, and conversations in an online group among laymen, professionals, craftsmen and restoration enthusiasts who justify different strategies of intervention into the buildings materiality. The result of the analysis is the mapping of these often conflicting justifications spread on the continuum betwen the idea that the sustainability of repair is defined through its relevance to individuals and their comfort contrasted to the understanding of the building and its elements as a part of the larger milieu and based on ethical considerations of non-destruction and caring for the past and for the future. Using the empirical material I relate different types of justifications and interpretations to the practical issues of renovation, and show how pragmatic conerns become political.
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- Bogdanova, Elena, 1976
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Restoring the value: ethics of care and pragmatic concerns in building renovation.
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nordic STS 2019. Tampere, Finland. 13-14 June, 2019.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Focused initially on national monuments, the debate on building renovation has recently shifted to ordinary contexts of private houses which are not legally protected as cultural heritage. Besides fuelling a rapidly growing circular market for building parts that attracts a large number of professional actors, this trend led to a growing public debate about „careful renovation“ that in most cases is not legally regulated. In Sweden, the movements such as „I saved a deserted house“ has become a popular trend, and a lifestyle that attracts a diverse group of followers who are not experts in building renovation and who intend to take care of the houses. Maria Puig de la Bellacasa argues that care implicates different relationalities, issues and practices in different settings (Puig de la Bellacasa, 2017). In this particular case I am tracing practices of care that relate to maintenance and repair of old wooden houses. Empirically I approach online discussions focused on repair implemented by houseowners and other actors, in which the ideas of care in terms of economic efficiency or affordability of new materials are contrasted to solutions of ethical repair and reuse in a traditional way. Following Puig de la Bellacasa (2011) I trace different understanding and practices of care implemented by diverse actors on the continuum between strong normative commitments and pragmatic “concerns”.
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