Call for papers for the Panel: «Heritage Shifts in East Asia: Communication
between Global Policies and Local Practices»


As part of the the Association for Critical Heritage Studies, Third
Biennial Conference in Montreal, 6th - 10th June 2016


Deadline for Call for Papers: 1st November 2015.



Panel Description:

To date, there has been much scholarly discussion and critique about how
ideas and policies of "heritage" may be operating globally. There have also
been ethnographic studies providing "on the ground" perspectives. In this
session, we aim to establish a bridge between local-level empirical study
and global heritage discourse. By addressing "heritage" in relation to
processes of modernization and globalization in East Asia, we seek to
investigate the dynamic communication between global heritage policies and
local practices in that region. Rather than assuming that a Euro-centric
discourse necessarily operates, we intend to explore the dialectical shifts
of heritage discourse between international regimes and national and local
presentations. We also wish to examine the tensions and opportunities in
the process of interpreting, imagining and practicing heritage in the East
Asian context of shifting economic and cultural values.


With these issues in mind, we invite papers looking into the following
themes:

- What are the routes and modes of transport by which notions such as
heritage, preservation, museum or authenticity-that originally emerged from
Europe-travel to East Asian countries such as China, Korea or Japan?

- What concepts and practices do such notions meet when they arrive and how
do populations interact with them? How are they professionally translated
and interpreted and popularly imagined and practised on the ground?

- Through what kinds of processes and practices is the global heritage
system variously put into operation and transformed at national and local
levels?

- What roles do international professional groups, including heritage
experts and nature conservationists, play in shaping the activities of
Asian heritage practitioners and managers—and vice versa?

- How are documents and decisions concerning heritage conservation made at
international levels (e.g. World Heritage) transmitted to East Asia and how
do local actors variously take up, negotiate, resist or ignore these in
whole or part?

- In what ways may local heritage decision-makers enlist national and
international agents in order to meet their own economic and political
agendas?

- How do international tourists and global tour operators imagine and
influence heritage tourism in East Asia, and how do those variously respond?


Instead of focusing on single-site case-studies from diverse national
contexts, this session engages with East Asia as an important ground for
testing the global dynamics of heritage discourse in relation to the
intensified mobility of concepts, objects, media and human beings. We
welcome projects with inter-disciplinary approaches to deepen the insight
of the complex picture of the heritage system in the era of cultural and
economic globalization. By investigating the proposition that cultures are
an attribute of human societies formed by transcultural relationships, our
session will collectively strive to cast new light on heritage politics,
memory, governance, and the complex and often contradictory association of
power and culture."


All interested paper presenters are invited to submit a paper proposal by
completing the electronic form at
https://achs2016.uqam.ca/secure/submitAbstract.php


Paper submissions should include:

- an abstract of 600 words outlining the topic or main argument, its
relation to one of the themes of the conference (or to a specific session)
and its interest in the field of critical heritage studies.

- a brief resume (biographical notice and main publications) of no more
than 300 words.


**All papers submitted will be peer reviewed through a process managed by
ACHS 2016 scientific committee.***


You are welcome to contact Panel Organizer, Dr. William Nitzky,
[log in to unmask], and Panel Co-organizer, Dr. Yujie Zhu,
[log in to unmask], if you have any questions regarding the panel or your
submission.


More information is available on conference website at: achs2016.uqam.ca



*William Nitzky, PhD*

*Assistant Professor of Anthropology*

*Department of Anthropology*

*California State University, Chico*

*400 W. First Street*

*Chico, CA 05029-0400*

*(530) 898-4953*

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