Contestation, Reinvention, and Regulation of Cultural Heritage Through Dissent

Dr Valeria Morea is an Assistant Professor at the Arts & Culture Studies of the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication. She is alumna of the James Buchanan Fellowship at Mercatus Center (George Mason University). Her research examines the local dynamics of cultural production, from grassroots initiatives to the economics of local public spending on culture.Dr Anna Pirri Valentini is an Assistant Professor of Administrative Law at the IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy, and Adjunct Professor at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome. Her research is focused on Cultural Heritage and Art Law. She is the director of the Jean Monnet Module entitled Regulating and Managing Cultural Heritage in Europe.Dr Felicia Caponigri is an Assistant Professor of Law at Marquette University Law School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she teaches Trusts & Estates, Property Law, and Fashion Law. Her research and scholarship focuses on the relationship between culture and intellectual property law in creative industries, like fashion and art. She hosts the podcast, A Fashion Law Dinner Party with Fashion by Felicia.

• Introduction.- Part I - Dissent as Contestation.- MSCHF’s “Wavy Baby” Speech, Cultural Heritage, and Consumer Culture: Fashion Contestations.- Performance as Dissent.- Permanence or Impermanence: Dissent within Historic Museum Exhibits.- A creative dissent: increasing the value of public cultural heritage through private involvement.- Protesting and the Yellow Jacket Movement: Dissent within French Cultural Heritage.- Part II - Dissent as Reinvention.- Conflicting values and rivalry: Dissent as Reinvention.- Reinventing contemporary art and the city through dissent: Grassroots practices between artistic experimentation and urban care.- Cultural heritage and urban regeneration: towards collaborative approaches for cultural heritage management and enhancement.- Turning disaffection into a vehicle for wider and long-lasting socio-economic change: participatory approaches to cultural heritage. A voice from Ercolano (Naples, IT).- Part III - Dissent as Regulation.- Avoiding, preventing, or resolving dissent: What is the role of law? About dissent in some of its legal technical meanings and how these can be applied to cultural and art-related matters.- Public scrutiny and film funding in Italy and France.- Public vs Private Art Collections: The Changing Role of Museums.- A Legal Framework for Ownership Rights in Negative Cultural Heritage.- Free and Prior Informed Consent and Indigenous Peoples’ Tangible Cultural Heritage.- Conclusion.