Pub Date : 2023-07-20DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2237495
Yinzi Yi
ABSTRACT The pervasiveness of digital media has profoundly transformed how we preserve and promote intangible cultural heritage (ICH). With the growing popularity of Douyin, a video-focused social networking platform, ICH inheritors in China have begun to post videos that showcase their artisanship. On the one hand, the affordances of Douyin encourage its users to keep up with the latest trend, subjugating them to mimetic participation; on the other hand, heritage policies in China foster the top-down formation of nationalist identity. Therefore, how heritage practitioners negotiate between the top-down authority of policies and the horizontal mimesis of the platform is a matter of concern. This paper applies performance analysis to explore the Douyin videos of a Chinese craftsperson, Li Niangen, a municipal ICH inheritor whose Douyin videos are highly popular. ICH policies in China and the affordances of the platform may support the formation of distinct identities. However, by assuming multiple and even contrasting roles in his videos, Li is fully engaged in none of them. This paper proposes that the presentation of multiple roles copes with the conflicting logic in Chinese society. In addition, the misalignment of these roles may simultaneously utilise and unsettle the administrative and digital authorities.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-19DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2236590
Chiara Bortolotto, B. Ubertazzi
ABSTRACT In this article we explore the use of Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs) in the implementation of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. In retracing the ambiguous role accorded to IPRs since the drafting of the Convention and considering the practice of the Organs of the Convention, we highlight discrepancies in the decisions and debates of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage vis-à-vis IPRs. Drawing on our own anthropological and legal perspectives, we shed light on the fragmentation of different disciplinary standpoints and specialist knowledge in the practice of the Organs of the Convention, revealing how observed inconsistencies in the role of IPRs are neither acknowledged nor addressed. This makes the issue of IPRs a blind spot. Yet, ‘working misunderstandings’ facilitate rather than hinder successful interaction among the many players within the Convention, allowing different, and sometimes contradictory, stances to imperfectly coexist.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-17DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2231917
B. T. Knudsen, Shama Patel
ABSTRACT In this paper, we analyse how the colonial spectrality of the George Floyd video translocalises from the United States to Denmark to form heritage assemblages of solidarity, removal and repression that re-vitalize the colonial past and anti-racist protests in contemporary contexts. Through our analysis, we unfold the affective capacities of the Floyd video and its memetic mutations that mobilize publics against asymmetries inherited from colonialism and invent new forms of activism. We show that while protester tactics following Floyd demonstrate a reflexive distribution of subjectivities and positionalities, minority voices and efforts to remove symbols of colonialism are condemned and suppressed in Denmark. Our main contribution is to include digital media into heritage assemblages as an affective device. A second contribution is presenting digital epidemiography as an affective methodology to remotely study transient and unpredictable global events, through an analysis of digital traces found on the internet. A third contribution is the knowledge of how post-Floyd heritage assemblages in Denmark position this Scandinavian country as a former colonizer in the decolonial turn.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-13DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2234349
Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld, Ana Clara Nunes Roberti, Bruno Lopes, Gisele Cristina da Conceição
ABSTRACT This article develops a transdisciplinary methodology for valuing and co-creating ‘tapestries’ of Blue Heritage. Given impending threats to the environmental sustainability and maintenance of Cultural Heritage surrounding oceans and freshwaters, it is increasingly urgent to develop a methodology that addresses the significance of the past and its rapport with the continuous future creation and valuing of what we here develop as ‘Cultures of Water’. This idea encompasses water-related practices that occur in various ways across diverse groups and arenas. Therefore, the proposed methodology is informed by several disciplines, notably History, Ethnography, Cultural Heritage, Arts, Design, Planning, and Geography. It emphasises the creation of a continuously evolving and changing tapestry of knowledge, jointly threaded by local populations, governmental and non-governmental institutions at various levels, industries, businesses, and academia. The tapestry is woven by connecting diverse disciplinary methodologies along specific threads, three on content and six on methods and related key questions. This article presents the methodology and reflects on its practicability and potential based on autoethnographic reflections, literature reviews, and first findings from implementing parts of the methodology in northern Portugal.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-11DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2234363
Madison Leeson
ABSTRACT Although it is recognised that the values of performative heritage are intangible, this has not, unfortunately, affected the ways in which theatre heritage is appreciated in museums. The Aeschylus Museum, proposed for the site of the Palaio Elaiourgeiou in Elefsina, Greece, suggests collections-free programming to promote the plays of the ancient tragedian Aeschylus (525–456 BCE), born in the town. A combination of performances, digital programming, and hands-on workshops seek to engage more deeply with visitors’ lives, relating material in a way that does not simply valorise quarantined material remains. Complementing earlier research on the museum’s programming methodology , this article addresses the more specific concerns of establishing a museum with the proposed pedagogical approach. Through semi-structured interviews with the local community, benchmark analyses of similar institutions, and values assessments of the community and plays, we consider how the museum could meet local expectations and promote meaningful experiences. Provided that programming appeals to these values and engages critically with visitors, the museum’s collections-free approach presents a significant opportunity for museum studies. On indefinite hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Aeschylus Museum offers a novel approach for achieving museums’ institutional ideals through collections-free programming.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-10DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2225054
Cecilia Rodéhn
ABSTRACT This paper explores the processes of naming streets in four Swedish post-asylum landscapes and, consequently, the processes of constructing heritage. The paper shows that the memorialisation of (1) hospital buildings, staff members and architects; (2) the hospitals surrounding nature and park landscape; and (3) historical periods predating the hospital and the time of deinstitutionalisation are central ways in which heritage is constructed. The paper further explores how different discourses materialise in the name-giving processes. The examples are further discussed in relation to arguments made by scholars about how the past of the post-asylum landscape is remembered. In doing so, assumptions about what the heritage of post-asylum landscapes consists of are critically discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-08DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2234354
K. Hüfner
project management because most government-led projects in China currently do not take into account the advice of professionals. However, the privileged status of the professional, as Yan (2015, 65) argues in his study of Chinese heritage discourse, ‘empowers government by ignoring local residents’ capability’ within project management, which, in the long run, helps to obscure local interpretations of vernacular culture and traditional customs. This outcome is, unfortunately, the opposite of the author’s original intention of laying out these guidelines – giving a voice to local people. All in all, this book will be helpful for students and researchers working in many fields, including critical heritage studies, cultural landscape and residential environment studies, rural sociology, architecture and spatial planning, and local history. It is a clear and comprehensive book that merits careful reading. Compared with other books on the transformation of Chinese villages in the English-speaking world, such as the influential Chen Village: Revolution to Globalization (Chan, Madsen, and Unger 2009), this book has its own important features focusing on the changing meaning of home and the local resistance to top-down heritagisation.
因为目前中国大多数政府主导的项目都没有考虑到专业人士的建议。然而，正如Yan(2015,65)在他对中国遗产话语的研究中所指出的那样，专业人员的特权地位在项目管理中“通过忽视当地居民的能力来授权政府”，从长远来看，这有助于模糊当地对本土文化和传统习俗的解释。不幸的是，这一结果与作者制定这些指导方针的初衷背道而驰——让当地人民有发言权。总而言之，这本书将有助于在许多领域工作的学生和研究人员，包括批判性遗产研究，文化景观和居住环境研究，农村社会学，建筑和空间规划，以及地方历史。这是一本清晰而全面的书，值得仔细阅读。与其他关于英语世界中国村庄转型的书籍相比，如有影响力的《陈村:向全球化的革命》(Chan, Madsen, and Unger, 2009)，这本书有自己的重要特点，关注家的意义变化和当地对自上而下的遗产化的抵制。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-08DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2231909
Marco Pernarella, Anders Koed Madsen
ABSTRACT What we understand and choose as heritage is a question rooted in our individual and collective notions of identity and feelings of community. Critical heritage studies highlight the links between heritage and recognition, emotions, and the everyday lives of people and communities. We introduce a methodology for a digitally facilitated and participatory study of place-based community heritage. Inspired by Participatory Data Design and Photovoice methodologies, the Urban Belonging App enables participants to communicate phenomenological aspects of urban spaces by sharing, signifying, and evaluating pictures of familiar places in the city. A quali-quantitative analysis of the app’s data best exploits its multi-dimensionality: the characteristic of being both countable and measurable and semantically rich and relational. The case study illustrates how the methodology is used to study community heritage in an exploratory and descriptive way. Most valued and recognised heritage places, as well as less conventional understandings of heritage in Urbino, Italy, are identified. Two participants show how heritage differently embeds with everyday experiences, memories, and feelings of community. Its adaptability and ability to capture the contested and phenomenological nature of heritage and to operationalise complex definitions of community qualify the methodology to enable systematic research on bottom-up, situated heritage values.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-06DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2231919
C. Bonacchi, Siân Jones, Elisa Broccoli, Alex Hiscock, Elizabeth Robson
ABSTRACT This article adopts a reflexive methodology, called rapid logging, to examine how heritage values relating to the same heritage ‘thing’ are variously crafted by the mutual agencies of human and non-human actors on and with social media. In the process, it also explores the (in)visibilities produced through the heritage value assemblages co-curated by researchers with other actors including social media platforms and data, past objects, places and practices. The analysis focuses on the values associated with a specific case study, the area once occupied by the Old Gas Works, in North Canongate, Edinburgh, UK. Our conclusions demonstrate the importance of multi-platform and reflexive research to develop contextual and critical understandings of heritage value assemblages that can lead to fairer decision-making in heritage and more just societies.
本文采用了一种被称为快速记录的自反性方法，来研究与同一遗产“事物”相关的遗产价值是如何通过社交媒体上的人类和非人类行动者的相互作用而不同地形成的。在此过程中，它还探索了由研究人员与其他参与者(包括社交媒体平台和数据、过去的物体、地点和实践)共同策划的遗产价值组合所产生的(In)可见性。分析的重点是与一个特定案例研究相关的价值，该案例研究的区域曾经是位于英国爱丁堡北部Canongate的Old Gas Works。我们的结论证明了多平台和反思性研究对于发展对遗产价值组合的语境和批判性理解的重要性，这可以在遗产和更公正的社会中导致更公平的决策。
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Pub Date : 2023-07-06DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2231903
D. Ocón
ABSTRACT Kubor Kassim is a century-old, serene Muslim cemetery in Singapore. Although many of its surviving 3,000 graves are unidentified, the graveyard contains elaborate tombs from internees of notable background, including community leaders and respected Muslim sheikhs ;(religious leaders and scholars). Kubor Kassim also houses a surau ;(prayer house) where religious classes are conducted, and offers its own miniature ecosystem of flora and fauna, including banyan trees and hornbills. Asia’s rapid urbanisation subjects cultural heritage to tensions that threaten its preservation and poses dilemmas for decision-makers. The choice between expansion and protection is rarely straightforward, and controversies intertwine development, urban planning, sustainability, memory-shaping, and identity-building. For most of its short history as a nation, Singapore has had to make challenging decisions regarding the use of its territory. Space is a highly sought and tightly controlled commodity in such a land-scarce, fully urbanised and densely-populated country. Kubor Kassim is one of the latest examples of these tensions. Surrounded by private residential properties, in an area affected by population pressures and earmarked for future residential development, the cemetery is at risk of disappearance. Given Kubor Kassim’s uncertain future and being mindful that a heritage site’s tangibility cannot be replaced, this paper posits digitalisation as a preservation alternative. Using tools such as digital documentation and archiving, virtual mapping capturing with 360-degree technology, interactive maps, podcasts, and UAV (drone) photography and filming, this investigation explores encounters with the cemetery that can also act as its’ memory insurance policy’ in case of destruction or disappearance. The research includes comprehensive documentation, field works to record the site, interviews, and surveys. The paper urges reflection on the importance of cultural heritage in Asian cities, often threatened by the very process of urban growth and development. It also demonstrates that the design of parallel digital worlds can provide respectful and sustainable ways of preserving the priceless memories associated with cultural heritage.
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