Between Arbitration and Engineering: Concepts and Contingencies in the Shaping of Heritage Regimes

Kuutma, Kristin

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“…While Laurajane Smith (2006) emphasizes that in an epistemological sense all heritage is intangible due to its social values and impact, Kristin Kuutma (2012) notes that the concept of heritage is in fact used to sanction, give status, and make material the intangibilities of culture and human experience. While the epistemological demarcation between tangible and intangible seems to be difficult to draw, the demarcation is, however, put forward by heritage politics and industries.…”

Section: Conceptualizing Cultural Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…While the epistemological demarcation between tangible and intangible seems to be difficult to draw, the demarcation is, however, put forward by heritage politics and industries. As Kuutma (2012) states, the polarization into tangible and intangible heritage is mainly organizational and political and applied to demarcate target spheres and areas of expertise inside heritage industries. The scholarly attempts to clarify the concept of heritage by categorizing it into cultural and natural heritage have also turned out to be problematic (Ahmad 2006;Lowenthal 2005).…”

Section: Conceptualizing Cultural Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

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Comparing Notions on European Cultural Heritage in EU Policy Discourse and Scholarly Discussion

Lähdesmäki¹

2016

The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences:

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Section: Conceptualizing Cultural Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Conceptualizing Cultural Heritagementioning

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Comparing Notions on European Cultural Heritage in EU Policy Discourse and Scholarly Discussion

Lähdesmäki¹

2016

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“…But there are many other forms of official categorisation that can be applied to heritage sites at the national or state level throughout the world (Harrison 2012: 14). As Kristin Kuutma argues, "heritage is a valueladen concept that can never assume a neutral ground of connotation" (Kuutma 2012: 21). Her discussion of cultural heritage focuses on the practices of arbitration and engineering in the context of cultural politics.…”

Section: Tradition and Heritagementioning

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Concepts Around Selected Pasts: On ‘Mnemonic Turn’ in Cultural Research

Kõresaar¹

2014

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abstract:The aim of this article is to outline the main concepts used in cultural research, which denote the use of the past, to look into the trajectories of their mutual relationships, and to discuss the causes and development potential of the multi-faceted landscape of concepts that has emerged. Serving as an introduction to this thematic volume, this article creates the necessary conceptual framework for reading the following case studies. Two pairs of concepts are observed, which provide information on the modern cultural research of selected pasts: history culture and memory, and tradition-heritage. It is concluded that all the observed concepts could in the current situation be dealt with not only as fields of research, but as perspectives relevant for all areas of cultural research. Whether and to what extent the research of history culture, memory, tradition and heritage are entangled, is dependent on problem settings and objects of research, to which the respective research directions were originally related, but also connected with disciplinary contexts and academic traditions in different countries. In addition to impulses arising from inside research directions, the reason for the greater engagement of these directions could be the rise of interdisciplinary fields, which are not anchored to any specific concepts. A situation in which cultural research concepts with solid trajectories become replaceable occurs also in the case of transdisciplinary 'turns'. The research perspectives behind different concepts are best engaged within a specific field of research, which in turn have made way to the emergence of new concepts that bridge the established ones. In the context of this thematic volume, it is meaningful to refer to the increased cross-disciplinary interest in how the representation of the past in a variety of public spheres takes place. In this respect, concepts have been taken into use that refer to the 'public' at different levels: from official, state-sanctioned institutions to less formal, often locally based settings, and to particular, individualised contexts.

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“…What is the moral agenda of this investigation and critique? (Kuutma 2012: 32) Kuutma's questions claim reflexive research which should critically discuss academic concepts and perspectives. Different possible ways of such reflexive approaches are presented in this volume.…”

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“…The consequences of UNESCO's concepts of community, as well of UNESCO's efforts of community participation are well documented in many ethnographic case studies (cf. Eggert 2010; Hauser-Schäublin 2011; Bortolotto 2012; Tornatore 2012; Kuutma 2007). These are, for example, transformations in social relations when single actors proclaim to speak for an entire group, the "re-racialization of culture" 3 , different forms of instrumentalization, and new relations of different social actors and collectivities to a nation state (cf.…”

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Imaginations, Constructions and Constraints: Some Concluding Remarks on Heritage, Community and Participation

Tauschek¹

Between Imagined Communities of Practice

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When UNESCO adopted the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2003, a new heritage concept was transformed into a mighty global policy. According to many authors (see Bortolotto in this volume), new notions of heritage and new criteria concerning the definition of the heritage within this new policy were established, globally spread and finally translated into national heritage policies (cf. Bendix, Peselmann and Eggert 2012). In the realm of the intangible heritage convention, heritage is no longer material or monumental, nor is it of outstanding universal value. Rather, intangible heritage means the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skillsas well as the instruments, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated therewiththat communities, groups and, in some cases, individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage. This intangible cultural heritage, transmitted from generation to generation, is constantly recreated by communities and groups in response to their environment, their interaction with nature and their history, and provides them with a sense of identity and continuity, thus promoting respect for cultural diversity and human creativity. 1

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Between Arbitration and Engineering: Concepts and Contingencies in the Shaping of Heritage Regimes

Cited by 28 publications

References 14 publications

Comparing Notions on European Cultural Heritage in EU Policy Discourse and Scholarly Discussion

Comparing Notions on European Cultural Heritage in EU Policy Discourse and Scholarly Discussion

Concepts Around Selected Pasts: On ‘Mnemonic Turn’ in Cultural Research

Imaginations, Constructions and Constraints: Some Concluding Remarks on Heritage, Community and Participation

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