Pub Date : 2023-05-08DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2209058
Faith Mkwananzi, F. M. Cin, T. Marovah
ABSTRACT This article draws on our continuous artistic engagement with Tonga youth in Zimbabwe over the last four years and offers a critical analysis of their transformation. We use the intersecting concepts of political and cultural capabilities to argue how arts-based participation in civic spaces has enabled them to shift the power balances, fostering them as epistemic agents and change-makers. Their journey across three arts and heritage workshops showcases that the longitudinal collaborations and social networks developed and built on one another, creating a thick interrelational embodied process of initiating political advocacy and re-creating different and multiple reinterpretations of their cultural heritage. The paper demonstrates the possibilities of envisaging and realising alternative livelihoods amidst the struggles exacerbated by horizontal and vertical inequalities, precarity, political apathy and poverty and highlights the importance of identifying relevant, context-sensitive, and engaging approaches for transformative development and legacy.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-04DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2208102
Jesús Heredia-Carroza, Luis Palma, Luis F. Aguado
ABSTRACT This paper illustrates the gap between the perceived value of performer input in intangible heritage and how it is considered in the market, drawing on a large sample of flamenco in Spain. The method used is constructed from four different components: an analysis of the intellectual property legal framework to determine the scope of copyright and neighbouring rights, interviews with experts to explain in detail the flamenco work creation process, double system surveys to determine the perceived evaluation of its agents and contributions, and finally – through a multidimensional structural equations model – flamenco work’s perceived value-scale is validated through three dimensions: composition elements, feelings, and virtuosity. The results show how the perceived value of flamenco production critically depends on the externalisation accomplished by the performer through virtuosity. Nevertheless, copyright or royalties by no means ensure a level of protection that aligns with the key creative role of flamenco performers.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-29DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2208109
Sherine Al Shallah
Marilena Alivizatou is Honorary Lecturer at University College London. She has longstanding interests in intangible heritage as discourse and praxis, which led to her two monographs, Intangible Heritage and the Museum (2012) and Intangible Heritage and Participation (2021), journal articles and international collaborations. She held teaching and postdoctoral research positions at UCL (2012-17), where she completed graduate (2004) and doctoral studies (2009) in cultural heritage and museum studies, and holds an undergraduate degree in theatre studies from the National University of Athens (1999-2003).
{"title":"Implementing the world heritage convention: dimensions of compliance","authors":"Sherine Al Shallah","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2208109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2208109","url":null,"abstract":"Marilena Alivizatou is Honorary Lecturer at University College London. She has longstanding interests in intangible heritage as discourse and praxis, which led to her two monographs, Intangible Heritage and the Museum (2012) and Intangible Heritage and Participation (2021), journal articles and international collaborations. She held teaching and postdoctoral research positions at UCL (2012-17), where she completed graduate (2004) and doctoral studies (2009) in cultural heritage and museum studies, and holds an undergraduate degree in theatre studies from the National University of Athens (1999-2003).","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"71 1","pages":"624 - 626"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89385744","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 : 2023-04-26DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2204068
Carolyn Gibbeson
ABSTRACT The value of an object or building requires people to view it as something worthy of being valued in the first place, whether economically or culturally. When buildings are valued for their heritage nature, the redevelopment of these buildings is often controversial and contentious. This process is more complicated for historic buildings with negative or stigmatised pasts, such as former asylums. Such buildings are often difficult to access, and stakeholders rarely want to talk about the respective histories – leading to little research in this area. In response, this article examines this controversial domain through the lens of building redevelopment. This is because, at the point of redevelopment, perceptions of value come to the fore and coalesce, giving rise to conflict and debate regarding which type(s) of value are deemed most important by respective stakeholder groups. The article provides a new cross-disciplinary approach that blends academic literature from the disciplines of geography, heritage and real estate with data from practitioners in order to understand the multiplicity of viewpoints that relate to historic sites with difficult histories. Situated within a sample of three former asylum redevelopments, semi-structured interviews with developers, planners, and heritage body professionals have been carried out to understand the values attributed to each site as new use is negotiated. Original findings indicate that aesthetic considerations are ascribed most value. However, this finding is situated within a more complicated picture of the sites’ history. Conclusions suggest that an ‘acceptable level’ of stigma was present which enabled the sites redevelopment without the often-seen controversy of heritage redevelopments.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2201819
Marisa González de Oleaga, María Silvia Di Liscia, María Del Carmen Ricchiardo
ABSTRACT Though they deal with a similar time period and share similar aims, Museo de la Memoria in Montevideo and what was formerly Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada (the Naval Mechanics School, or ESMA) in Buenos Aires present contrasting depictions of dictatorship, social mobilization, repression, and the return to democracy in the Southern Cone. The planning for both sites took place in the 21st century, drawing on new and more progressive political proposals with a focus on the issues associated with recovering memory. A comparative analysis of the sites, then, seems timely. The differences in the two sites are related to not only the exhibits themselves but to the role of government-sponsored memories, state agencies, and other social groups. There are similarities between the exhibits at MUME and the former ESMA, both of which gloss over the violence exercised by those who fought against the regime. At the same time, some degree of political indoctrination can be seen in the curatorial representation of this conflictive period at both institutions.
尽管蒙得维的亚的Museo de la Memoria和布宜诺斯艾利斯的Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada(海军机械学校，简称ESMA)有着相似的时代和目标，但它们在南锥体呈现了对独裁统治、社会动员、镇压和民主回归的截然不同的描绘。这两个地点的规划都发生在21世纪，借鉴了新的和更进步的政治建议，重点关注与恢复记忆相关的问题。因此，对这些地点进行比较分析似乎是及时的。这两个地点的差异不仅与展品本身有关，还与政府赞助的记忆、国家机构和其他社会团体的作用有关。MUME和前ESMA的展品有相似之处，两者都掩盖了那些反抗政权的人所使用的暴力。与此同时，在这两个机构对这一冲突时期的策展表现中，可以看到某种程度的政治灌输。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-20DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2201869
Xihuan Hu
ABSTRACT Although heritage in the digital age and heritage digitisation have received increasing scholarly attention, critical reflection on new media heritage politics as individuals, communities and institutions transmit heritage remains an unexplored area. This paper aims to fill this gap in the literature by exploring the representation of Chinese Nüshu (literally women’s scripts) on new media platforms, paying particular attention to the centralised nature of Chinese AHD and its decentralisation through digital, democratic grassroots practices on heritage new media. Using a mixed-method approach combining qualitative and quantitative techniques, this study conducted a digital ethnography on several Nüshu social media communities from 2017 to 2022 and more than fifty in-depth interviews with twenty-three Nüshu stakeholders including official and unofficial transmitters, local officials, heritage experts, and local residence. The study finds dynamic negotiations in terms of cultural (re)production, power transformation, actors’ empowerment, and identity construction between the local authorised heritage discourse (AHD) and folk heritage discourse on new media. Furthermore, as a form of decentralisation of local AHD, the study demonstrates the presence of digital heritage democratisation in China through new media. However, this creates the potential for new discursive hegemony in folk heritage society. Recently, short-form content’s popularity has rapidly risen; the study reveals the complex politics of ‘positivity’ in relation to the representation of heritage on short-form video platforms in China.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-17DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2194669
K. Jagodzińska
ABSTRACT The article discusses the establishment of two local museums which were co-created by local communities: the Museum of Podgórze in Krakow and the Praga Museum of Warsaw – two museums devoted to districts of major cities; however, neither of them is autonomous, but part of, respectively, the Museum of Krakow and the Museum of Warsaw. In both cases communities were critical in establishing the institutions, and once opened, both needed to renegotiate their positions in the community – they gained prestige and power, but lost flexibility, freedom and some energy. The main question in the article is whether local communities are treated as an object or have some real influence on museums, particularly in their programming and philosophy. The article demonstrates that while the public and local communities are largely involved in the process of creation of museums, their role in museums functioning diminishes when newly established institutions are opened. Formalisation and bureaucracy of museums, despite attempts of some staff members, considerably challenges and hinders participation.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-11DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2201821
Nuria Nebot-Gómez de Salazar, Francisco José Chamizo-Nieto, Francisco Conejo-Arrabal, Carlos Rosa-Jiménez
ABSTRACT Not only the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), but also researchers have called for the involvement of local communities in the management of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) in the last decade. Despite awareness of this need for local involvement, there is no consensus regarding common criteria and implementation methods, especially in the case of small urban neighbourhoods. This research seeks to fill that gap by exploring different participatory actions with local communities in the neighbourhoods to identify and inventory their ICH. A participatory process was conducted in the Fontanalla neighbourhood of the city of Malaga and included expert opinions and local knowledge. Informal interviews, observational works and participatory actions were used to collect extensive data, which was then categorised and analysed. The results allowed the singularities and traditions to be recognised as part of their ICH. An ICH inventory is proposed with the involvement of the local community. The results from collected data and the suggested methodology to activate ICH participatory processes are expected to be useful for researchers and practitioners working on Intangible Cultural Heritage as well as Urban Regeneration in cities.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-06DOI: 10.1080/13527258.2023.2193818
Qiuxi Li, A. Subica, James M. Kendra, Saleem H. Ali
ABSTRACT In the indigenous communities in China’s Guizhou Province, people are struggling to balance tradition with modernisation. As fires have long plagued these villages, post-disaster reconstruction has intensified the tradition/modernity tension and left people with a complex dilemma: should traditional wooden houses be restored, or should one, instead, pursue a safer and modern dwelling in concrete houses? Through the lens of housing reconstruction, this paper aims to address this contradiction between the social benefits of heritage preservation and the indigenous rights for development in the context of disaster risk and modernisation in Guizhou Province. Analysing 134 surveys and 29 interviews collected via ethnographic fieldwork, this study’s findings reveal two core themes. First, the presence of a prevailing preference among indigenous Chinese for modernity, which also challenged the conventional wisdom that everyone endorses heritage preservation. Second, a social expectation among indigenous Chinese to be faithful to their cultural traditions and to resist development; which could be perceived as a continuation of the historical injustices and exploitations perpetrated against them. Overall, study findings call for a more inclusive and comprehensive discourse of indigenous preservation and development.
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