New challenges between the official and local discourse of the cultural heritage property

Abstract

This article poses the debate between the authorized official discourse and the local discourse in the processes of cultural heritage valuation and management as a social construction, contrasted with the experience of the heritage management project of Antioquia's railway in the category of cultural itinerary, as a response to the following questions: ¿What are the contradictions in the management processes of urban-architectural heritage?, and, ¿what are the challenges in the construction, resignification and activation of cultural heritage from local discourses and identities? It highlights the dilemma, from the theoretical and practical, and invites to find new participatory management strategies that allow generating processes of heritage social legitimation, understood within the framework of culture as a two-way agent of change, which addresses both the enhancement of local heritage, as well as the promotion of new individual and collective identities.