Pub Date : 2023-06-04DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2220296
Marie Elisabeth Berg Christensen
ABSTRACT The global museum sector is in a process of redefining and expanding its work areas. A main reason for this is cultural heritage as a growing issue in human security, and protection as a transnational cross-sectoral topic. Based on interviews this article examines how museum actors experience the sector’s role within the nexus of cultural heritage and human security in armed conflict. The article addresses the sector as a dynamic network of transnational organisations navigating in geopolitical and -cultural agendas arguing that this new role is not institutionalised and largely depends on individual interest and political agendas. This results in a disparity in allocation of protection responses and funding where the major Euro-American museums are frontrunners in understanding and performing the new role while the museum sector as a whole lacks an international system. Consequently, heritage protection in general should be incorporated in international humanitarian strategies and stabilisation work.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-04DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2220322
P. Wagenaar, Jeroen Rodenberg, M. Rutgers
ABSTRACT Heritage is a public value, which is determined by many other values. These values can be mutually dependent and reinforcing, but can also displace or nullify each other. As public values are arguments, this can result in discursive struggles when discussing whether something should be valued as ‘heritage’. It turns out that the proponents of so-called ‘social values’ often lose such battles. Why is it that precisely their arguments are so vulnerable? In seeking an answer to this question, it is illuminating to look at discursive struggles from the perspective of Herbert Gottweis’ Argumentative Policy Analysis. It is by applying his rendering of Aristotle’s categories of ‘logos’, ‘pathos’ and ‘ethos’ that we discover that proponents of social values, unlike exponents of an ‘Authorized Heritage Discourse’, are often less capable of constructing a logically consistent and convincing narrative. This also affects their ability to appeal to the emotions of the public (‘pathos’). Having less legitimacy than government-backed experts they also lack ‘ethos’. If social values were ‘lived’ by a community, they could be much stronger. Yet, as they often do not exist ‘out there’, but need to be constructed during discursive struggles, they are perceived as less authentic, consequently less convincing.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-04DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2220329
Katherine Georgina Watson
ABSTRACT This paper investigates how heritage-led regeneration has mediated the reconfiguration of North Shields Fish Quay. North Shields is a town in the North East of England, once home to among Britain’s largest deep-sea trawling fleets. Following the collapse of the trawling industry in the late twentieth century, ongoing fisheries crisis, and undelivered Brexit promises, fishing heritage has become valued as a tool for social and economic development. However, this deployment of heritage generates both opportunities and threats. Situated between contemporary archaeology and critical heritage studies, this paper employs archaeological ethnography and critical discourse analysis to examine the material and discursive unfolding of heritage-led regeneration at North Shields Fish Quay. I situate heritage-making in the Capitalocene and argue that heritage-led regeneration represents a capitalist response to capitalism-induced crisis. By foregrounding the long-term exploitation and alienation of fishing communities, and their physical and social separation from the landscape, this paper demonstrates that heritage-led regeneration profits from, perpetuates and obscures these abuses.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2220292
T. Kačerauskas
ABSTRACT This paper examines dissonant heritage from the perspective of sustainability, i.e. should we maintain and preserve artefacts from our Soviet past, such as the war memorial in the Antakalnis cemetery, which honours soldiers of the USSR who died fighting on Lithuanian soil during the Second World War? Currently, there is an intention on the part of Lithuania’s political authorities to remove this apparently dissonant monument. Its presence – and/or removal – raises more than a few issues of sustainability, including those of the socio-cultural environment, policy(ies) for heritage, and matters pertaining to the legal system. Accordingly, the paper analyses this particular example of Lithuania’s dissonant heritage by reference to the relevant literature, and also by presenting historical aspects of both the cemetery and the memorial. The opinions of the cemetery’s visitors concerning the Soviet memorial are also analysed. The empirical research covers the purposive group of Antakalnis cemetery visitors during All Soul’s Day (2 November 2022).
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2220314
Stefania Tufi
ABSTRACT This case study draws on evidence gathered in a minority setting in north-eastern Italy where Ladin, the heritage language, is central to the construction of past and present narratives of heroism and resistance. The article aims to contribute to the development of new debates within this journal as facilitated by different disciplinary perspectives, and in line with recent discussions about the status of language as heritage, which question the problematic UNESCO definition of language as a vehicle to intangible cultural heritage. Adopting a Linguistic Landscape approach, which focuses on material aspects of language and spatial dimensions of identity-building, the article discusses local micro-narratives of heroism which are in turn encompassed in macro-narratives of major events with global repercussions, such as World War 1. Evidence of the symbiotic relationship between the natural landscape and these events is represented by linguistic resources interacting with the setting to render it a rich example of history being inscribed in geography, and of landscape as monument. The discussion foregrounds the centrality of the heritage language in the performance of heroism, and its role in engendering interconnections between self-perception, aesthetics and ethics.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-23DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2215733
Chiara Zuanni
ABSTRACT This paper explores how the framework of object biographies can be used to analyse our digital activities, both disseminating and expanding these same biographies. During the digitisation and cataloguing processes, biographies are not only – and in limited format – recorded, but are also expanded by the affordances of the digital medium. Similarly, digital interpretation and engagement programmes, and their reception by museum audiences contribute to the establishing of new relationships around the object and the emergence of new narratives. User-generated content is also a witness of contemporary interpretation and networks emerging from public interest in, and use of, cultural heritage objects. The case-study of the Victory of Samothrace, and its traces in the Louvre’s own digital offer and among audiences’ data is used to discuss the range of digital content surrounding an object. This paper argues that all these instances of an object in the digital sphere are worth studying as adding new chapters in its life-history, in an ever-changing scenario of both ephemeral and meaningful digital representations. The relationship between originals and this digital content is considered as multifaceted, documenting, mediating, and expanding the original object biography, but also enabling digital surrogates to develop their own independent biographies.
{"title":"Object biographies in the digital age: documentation, life-histories, and data","authors":"Chiara Zuanni","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2215733","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2215733","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores how the framework of object biographies can be used to analyse our digital activities, both disseminating and expanding these same biographies. During the digitisation and cataloguing processes, biographies are not only – and in limited format – recorded, but are also expanded by the affordances of the digital medium. Similarly, digital interpretation and engagement programmes, and their reception by museum audiences contribute to the establishing of new relationships around the object and the emergence of new narratives. User-generated content is also a witness of contemporary interpretation and networks emerging from public interest in, and use of, cultural heritage objects. The case-study of the Victory of Samothrace, and its traces in the Louvre’s own digital offer and among audiences’ data is used to discuss the range of digital content surrounding an object. This paper argues that all these instances of an object in the digital sphere are worth studying as adding new chapters in its life-history, in an ever-changing scenario of both ephemeral and meaningful digital representations. The relationship between originals and this digital content is considered as multifaceted, documenting, mediating, and expanding the original object biography, but also enabling digital surrogates to develop their own independent biographies.","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"95 1","pages":"695 - 710"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86983094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-05-18DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2208370
M. Alivizatou
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Pub Date : 2023-05-12DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2211996
C. Bonnin, N. Moore-Cherry
ABSTRACT While central to the origins, evolution and provisioning of cities, traditional markets are under threat globally as urban renewal supporting particular forms of economic development comes centre-stage. Design-led placemaking and built heritage policy have become tools of local, regional and national development, and urban heritage has become economically instrumentalised. In this paper, we argue for an alternate conceptualisation. Through a case study of Moore Street market in Dublin, Ireland, we interpret heritage as a complex of activity, place and time, drawing attention to the act of traditional livelihood building through market trading as a form of ‘everyday heritage’, and thus deserving of protection and support. We recognise that heritage can be produced at multiple scales that escape the bounding of ‘designation’. As well as contrasting this living heritage with narrowly defined views of ‘heritage’ represented by elites, we highlight the potential of more inclusive approaches to heritage that stand in direct opposition to, and challenge, the discourses created by and authorised through particular assemblages at specific moments. We also challenge the homogenisation of working-class heritages in particular places. We conclude that recognising living heritage as critical urban infrastructure could offer a pathway from precarity to sustainability for vulnerable urban communities.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-11DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2211986
M. C. Porcal-Gonzalo
ABSTRACT Vineyard landscapes are an excellent example of cultural landscapes that represent the interactions between nature and culture, providing many of them with a unique heritage value. This study takes a critical approach to the nomination processes of World Heritage vineyard landscapes, focusing on the practical application of the eligibility criteria and the key concepts of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV), authenticity and integrity. A detailed comparative study of the nine specific vineyard cultural landscapes included in the World Heritage List has been conducted based on three primary sources: the Nomination Files, the Advisory Bodies Evaluations and the minutes of the World Heritage Committee meetings with the decisions to inscribe or not to inscribe the sites. A systematic analysis of the many recommendations issued by ICOMOS to the States Parties and their comparison with the Committee’s decisions has provided insight into the evolution of perspectives. In turn, these have given rise to a discussion regarding several aspects: inscription categories, names and surface areas of the properties, duration of the process, OUV and attributes that embody said value, authenticity and integrity, boundaries and management plans. Thus, this paper will shine a light on the difficult subject of identifying outstanding heritage specificities and linking OUV to the territorial conservation and management of living rural landscapes.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-11DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2211976
Solomon Gwerevende
ABSTRACT Indigenous people’s cultural heritage is increasingly being subjected to political, social, and economic pressures in the light of capitalism, foreign investment, and displacement perpetuated by external development programmes. Shangaan people in Chilonga communal lands, Chiredzi District in Masvingo Province of south-eastern Zimbabwe are victims of such regimes as the government seeks to evict them from their ancestral lands. The Zimbabwean government’s plan to relocate the Shangaan people from their communal territory is problematic for many reasons; it shows the government’s failure to uphold human rights, respect property rights, Indigenous rights, and cultural rights. The displacement has a longer-lasting socio-cultural, ecological, and economic impact, affecting cultural diversity and socio-cultural interactions as the government plans to forcefully remove families from their heritage and way of life and change their community set-up. This may, in turn, lead to new patterns of inequalities, loss of cultural heritage, and vulnerabilities. This article disentangles such dynamics and sheds light on endangered human rights, cultural heritage, and its practitioners.
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