*Heritage Across Borders*

*Association of Critical Heritage Studies, 4th Biennial Conference*

*1-6th September, 2018, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China*


*SESSION 023 Social Boundaries and Cultural Heritage. Reproduction,
Crossing and Transmission in the Heritage Realm (Panel of the Francophone
Network) *
Organizers:
Mathieu Dormaeals: [log in to unmask]
Cyril Isnart: [log in to unmask]

Abstract:

Following Pierre Bourdieu’s views on art and social order (Distinction,
[1979] 1984), social reproduction of hierarchy and inequality is
fundamentally a matter of transmission and frontiers management of a
cultural capital built on art, heritage, and history. Critical sciences
thus question the role transmission technics of this cultural capital have
on transformation and reproduction of social differences.

Not surprisingly, cultural transmission and social empowerment are nowadays
among the major stakes of cultural heritage institutions (Davallon 2004,
Smith 2006). Technics guidelines on transmission in cultural heritage
context are numerous and two models, the European one, “mediation”, and the
North-American one, “interpretation”, frame the domain. Scientific analyses
of the topic are twofold. On the one hand, heritage studies critically
address the political manipulation of heritage transmission in
authoritarian and hegemonic regimes. On the other hand, literature engages
with the moral economy setting certain heritage NGO projects, such as the
ethical obligation of “heritage awareness” and preservation of cultural
diversity.

This panel proposes to compare transmission processes in any cultural
heritage contexts and to evaluate more critically their effects on
reproduction and crossing social boundaries. Is cultural heritage
transmission a device to reinforce or to cancel the social and cultural
frontiers of our contemporary societies? How to transmit a certain cultural
content in a museum, a festival, a guided tour, an education programme, a
natural park? What are the implications of such choices for audiences of
different status, education, age, social classes, and physical or cognitive
abilities? How UNESCO moral imperatives react with the local societies
values, which challenge the universalism and humanism perspective of the
international institution?

These questions lead us to reassess the daily practices of the heritage
professionals, the emotions of the visitors, and the weigh of mediation and
interpretation models of heritage transmission.

As the ACHS Francophone Network panel, we accept communications in English
and French.

Dead-line : 30th of November 2017

Guidelines to submit your proposal:
http://2018achs.com/#/session/paperDraft

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