Law, Culture, and the City
Osgoode Hall Law School of York University Osgoode Digital Commons PhD Dissertations Theses and Dissertations 4-2-2018 Law, Culture, and the City: Urban Legal Anthropology, the Counterhegemonic Use of Hegemonic Legal Tools, and the Management of Intangible Cultural Heritage Spaces Within Toronto's Municipal Legal Frameworks Sara Gwendolyn Ross Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/phd Part of the Anthropology Commons, Comparative and Foreign Law Commons, and the Music Commons LAW, CULTURE, AND THE CITY: URBAN LEGAL ANTHROPOLOGY, THE COUNTERHEGEMONIC USE OF HEGEMONIC LEGAL TOOLS, AND THE MANAGEMENT OF INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE SPACES WITHIN TORONTO’S MUNICIPAL LEGAL FRAMEWORKS SARA GWENDOLYN ROSS A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY GRADUATE PROGRAM IN LAW YORK UNIVERSITY TORONTO, ONTARIO APRIL 2018 © Sara Gwendolyn Ross, 2018 ABSTRACT The deep process of revision needed in managing Toronto and Canada’s urban intangible cultural heritage not only affects redevelopment decisions and cultural policies at the municipal level, and cultural heritage legislation and regulations at the provincial level, but it also calls for the need to address issues at the federal level, such as correctly acknowledging what terms like “heritage value” mean when drawn from international cultural heritage legislation and the currently unratified status of the UNESCO Convention on the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage within Canada. Through the application of urban legal anthropology, as well as through a lens drawing on urban legal geography, this dissertation canvases cases of unequal valuation of cultural spaces linked to musical subcultures and Toronto’s redevelopment strategies and Music City initiatives.
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