As part of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies conference (Hangzhou, China, 1-6 September 2018
) I am pleased invite papers for the following session:
UNESCO frictions: the social lives of international heritage norms
UNESCO heritage policies are often associated with the spectre of cultural globalisation grounded on what Michael Herzfeld calls a “global hierarchy of values”. Indeed, anthropological research on the social impact of the inscription on UNESCO World Heritage and Intangible Cultural Heritage lists provides evidence of the “UNESCOisation” (Berliner 2012) of local ways of representing culture and conceiving cultural transmission and emphasizes the top-down influence of “good” governance international principles on local logics and priorities.
At the same time, a close analysis of the institutional mechanisms and procedures underpinning the whole chain of the implementation of UNESCO heritage conventions sheds light on the agency of particular human and nonhuman actors involved in this process across the different scales of UNESCO-driven heritage governance : laws, institutions, policies, civil servants, local authorities, heritage experts, civil society, heritage “bearers”.
We welcome papers that explore this agency, showing how international norms come to life through their national and local interpretations, uses and adaptations to different political, institutional, economic and socio-cultural situations. This session aims at exploring the different lives of international heritage norms focusing on the original outcome of the encounter between their universal aspirations and the diversity of the interpretations given to them, that is to say the “creative friction” (Tsing 2005) which makes these lives possible. We are interested in analyses that unpack the global/local dialectic looking in particular at the complex process of legislative, institutional, social and cultural translations that simultaneously globalize and localize international policies. How does the travel of an international standard change its meaning? How does an international norm engage and compromise with existing heritage regimes? What does the complexity of these practical interconnections tell us about the universal ambitions of global heritage governance?
If interested in contributing to the session please send an abstract up to 500 words to [log in to unmask] by 15 November 2017.
Chiara Bortolotto
École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain (IIAC-Lahic)
54 Bd Raspail
75006, Paris
http://www.iiac.cnrs.fr/article590.htm <http://www.iiac.cnrs.fr/article590.htm>
http://www.ehess.academia.edu/ChiaraBORTOLOTTO <http://www.ehess.academia.edu/ChiaraBORTOLOTTO>
https://frictions.hypotheses.org <https://frictions.hypotheses.org/>
Recent publications:
Como “comerse” un patrimonio: construir bienes inmateriales agroalimentarios entre directivas técnicas y empresariado patrimonial <http://www.revistaandaluzadeantropologia.org/uploads/raa/n12/bortolotto.pdf>
Placing ICH, Owning a Tradition, Affirming Sovereignty: the Role of Spatiality in the Practice of the 2003 Convention <https://www.routledgehandbooks.com/doi/10.4324/9781315716404.ch4>
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