ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book has a number of themes alongside the obvious one of non-expert access, appropriation, ownership and the creation or co-creation of heritage. The example of the cinema and the serve also highlights the unintended consequences of the rescue/preservation/conservation aspect of Heritage. A debate about experts does however offer or types of heritage perspective that can seem to be overlooked by conventional heritage discourse. An expert heritage view of Dufton would have formed in the past half century. Often in heritage debates the word is used to mean the representative of the state who applies fixed, normative criteria to produce a standardised assessment of value for listing or designating. The Faro Convention locates the debate, with its statements that societies which are founded on respect for human rights, democracy and the rule of law seek through recognition of individual and collective responsibility.
