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*Civilisations** vol. 61 (1)*
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Forthcoming Spring 2012
Beyond the Heritage Consensus
Forms of Resistances and Dissident Uses of Heritage
Guest editors Cyril Isnart and Anaïs Leblon
An important paradigm is found throughout the social sciences
which deal with the social uses of heritage: to speak about heritage is not
merely to speak about things (buildings, monuments, works of art, intangible
assets, whether landscapes or animals) but also, in some ways, to qualify –
or requalify – the objects termed "heritage". Analysed as a process,
heritagization proves itself more complex and more debated than what the
world of cultural policies can ultimately show. In fact, it goes as far as
to involve explicit forms of resistance that contest the heritage use of an
asset and undeniably constitute a privileged and classic subject of heritage
studies. However, these sometimes hide another more discreet side of
heritage resistance: for the last thirty years or so, dissident uses of
heritage have been common practice among minority communities and cultures,
who adopt heritagization as their grammar and vocabulary of protest in the
context of counter-heritagization or new forms of heritagization.
A dualist interpretation, with authentic, despoiled indigenous
people on the one hand and perverse forces of a heritagization imposed from
above on the other, is therefore simplistic – if not romantic. It does not
take into account the dynamics of appropriation and of political and
cultural recycling of heritage dynamics. Analysing these heritage positions
and practices by seeing them as part of a continuum of resistance, extending
from the contesting of heritage uses to the dissident use of heritage,
throws new light on the social effects of heritagization. Far from merely
simplifying social relations by creating imagined communities and shared
symbols, heritagization also offers new space for the conflicts and
negotiations between groups which are continually being redefined. These two
sides of heritagization processes have rarely been considered together and
the linking of them makes it possible to put the activities of the
heritagization field back at the centre of the actors' practices in all
their diversity of time and space.
This special issue of *Civilisations* thus hopes to examine, with no
geographical or historical distinctions, the ways of contesting
heritagization and of using heritagization to contest, by endeavouring to
grasp what is at stake in relations with collective identities, political
issues and heritagized objects in situations of heritage tension. The main
themes proposed for reflection are, amongst possible others, the following:
*- Heritage multivocality*. The analysis of the construction of heritage
values could be compared with the dissident voices of the actors resisting
heritagization in order to pinpoint the mirror effects between the two
discourses proposed, but also in order to describe the internal dissonances
of each 'side', as these are not necessarily homogeneous or unambiguous.
- *The emergence of alternative heritage fields*. *Counter-heritagizations
and dissident uses of heritage. *Dissident voices always appear in a social
and heritage arena which dictates its own rules. However, ranging from the
simple use of heritagization to the subversion of values and objects,
protest practices sometimes redefine the limits of the heritage arena.
*- Charismatic figures and the construction of minorities. *Here we will be
particularly interested in the question of how the individual figures of
heritage protest and the groups they have been able to mobilize or in whose
name they speak are linked. Issues of individual power are thus combined
with those of social and community visibility in a relationship in which the
dissident uses of heritage play a central role.
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*Propositions of articles either in English or French (title + 250 words
abstract) should be sent before the 15th March 2011 both to the editorial
board of the journal ([log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>** and**
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Isnart (**[log in to unmask]) and Anaïs Leblon ([log in to unmask]).***
*Civilisations* is a peer-reviewed journal of anthropology. Published
continuously since 1951, it features articles in French and English in the
various fields of anthropology, without regional or time limitations.
Revived in 2002 with a new editorial board and a new subtitle ( *Revue
internationale d'anthropologie et de sciences humaines*),
*Civilisations*particularly encourage the submission of articles where
anthropological
approaches meet other social sciences, to better tackle processes of society
making.
Cyril Isnart
CIDEHUS - Universidade de Évora
Portugal
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