ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a variety of knotty issues around, in the first instance, the fabric focused logic underpinning heritage management and the implications of this for social value'. It describes the limits of heritage protection and the implications of this for the cultures and alternative histories of marginalized identities via a discussion of a detailed survey of outdoor cultural objects' undertaken on the Australian State of Queensland. Social or cultural value is often difficult to establish for a variety of reasons. The chapter explores some of the theoretical coordinates of this acknowledgement of the cultural, economic, political and social consequences of heritage'. It argues that the representation and official recognition of some stories and not others has concrete and real effects on the everyday. The chapter explains some of the theoretical problems with the notion of community consultation. Cultural landscapes are both artefacts within which we can trace past historical, social and cultural arrangements.
