LAW, HERITAGE AND EVERYDAY CULTURE

k 2022

LAW, HERITAGE AND EVERYDAY CULTURE

ŠTĚPÁNÍKOVÁ, Markéta and Terezie SMEJKALOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

LAW, HERITAGE AND EVERYDAY CULTURE

Authors

ŠTĚPÁNÍKOVÁ, Markéta (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Terezie SMEJKALOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Heritage in War and Peace II Spaces of Conflict, Spaces of Justice: Between Natural Landscapes and Cityscapes, 2022

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

50501 Law

Country of publisher

Canada

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14220/22:00129400

Organization unit

Faculty of Law

Keywords in English

public policy; public order; Czech law; Czech case-law; legal concept; social representations; vague legal terms; clothing

Abstract

V originále

Cultural heritage does not include only art and culture (both tangible and intangible). In many ways, our cultural heritage is also a way of life, our everyday reality with its symbols and representations. Cultural heritage does not cover our past but also our future through a direct impact of the first on the latter. So, when speaking about legal regulation, we need to include all these dimensions of cultural heritage. Law grows from our experience and, as such, mirrors our history in the present legal norms, as well as the law mirrors our cultural heritage, born both from law and peace. Therefore, the lawgiver needs to decide which parts of our cultural history are worth protecting and which parts need to be eliminated as much as possible. Sometimes, researching law can bring new light to the understanding of culture. Surprisingly, precisely that happened during our research of legal representations. While the project and its methods are socio-legal in nature, both qualitative and quantitative, the answers to our questions were often tightly connected to cultural heritage, such as clothing or narratives about the judiciary. Not surprisingly, the most fruitful way of interpreting them is through the lens of cultural and legal identity. In Central Europe, identity may be a magic keyword usually used to explain almost everything. However, concerning legal regulation of cultural heritage in a broader sense, identity seems to be precisely that. This paper proposes an explanation of how everyday culture is treated by law in Central Europe and how it is rooted in our cultural heritage.

Links

GA20-10171S, research and development project

Name: Využití metod sociální reprezentace v analýze právních konceptů

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

ŠTĚPÁNÍKOVÁ, Markéta and Terezie SMEJKALOVÁ. LAW, HERITAGE AND EVERYDAY CULTURE. In Heritage in War and Peace II Spaces of Conflict, Spaces of Justice: Between Natural Landscapes and Cityscapes. 2022.

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