Community and participation have become central concepts in the nomination processes surrounding heritage, intersecting time and again with questions of territory. In this volume, anthropologists and legal scholars from France, Germany, Italy and the USA take up questions arising from these intertwined concerns from diverse perspectives : How and by whom were these concepts interpreted and
re-interpreted, and what effects did they bring forth in their implementation ? What impact was wielded by these terms, and what kinds of discursive formations did they bring forth ? How do actors from local to national levels interpret these new components of the heritage regime, and how do actors within heritage-granting national and international bodies work it into their cultural and political agency ? What is the role of experts and expertise, and when is scholarly knowledge expertise and when is it partisan ? How do bureaucratic institutions translate the imperative of participation into concrete practices ? Case studies from within and without the UNESCO matrix combine with essays probing larger concerns generated by the valuation and valorization of culture.
Contents
Nicolas Adell, Regina F. Bendix, Chiara Bortolotto and Markus Tauschek
Preface
Nicolas Adell, Regina F. Bendix, Chiara Bortolotto and Markus Tauschek
Introduction. Between Imagined Communities and Communities of Practice : Participation, Territory and the Making of Heritage
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Community Conundrums
Ellen Hertz
Bottoms, Genuine and Spurious
Stefan Groth
Between Society and Culture : Recognition in Cultural Heritage Contexts
Michael A. Di Giovine
The Ethics of Participation, Community Formation, and Governmentality in UNESCO’s World Heritage Program
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Community and Territory from Legal Perspectives
Benedetta Ubertazzi
The Territorial Condition for the Inscription of Elements on the UNESCO Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage
Sabrina Urbinati
The Community Participation in International Law
Lauso Zagato
The Notion of “Heritage Community” in the Council of Europe’s Faro Convention. Its Impact on the European Legal Framework
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Cultural Values and Community Involvement beyond UNESCO
Cyril Isnart
Self Heritage-Making and Religious Minority in Greece : An Ethnography of Heritage Activities outside of the Cultural Institutions
Monika Salzbrunn
The Place-Making of Communities in Urban Spaces : The Invention of the Village Saint-Louis Sainte-Marthe
Noe¨l Barbe, Marina Chauliac and Jean-Louis Tornatore
Intangible Cultural Heritage Exposed to Public Deliberation : A Participatory Experience in a Regional Nature Park
Regina F. Bendix
Patronage and Preservation : Heritage Paradigms and Their Impact on Supporting “Good Culture”
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Reflections on Heritage Experts and Decision Makers
Nicolas Adell
Polyphony vs. Monograph : The Problem of Participation in a French ICH Dossier
Chiara Bortolotto
UNESCO and Heritage Self-Determination : Negotiating Meaning in the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the ICH
Christoph Brumann
Community as Myth and Reality in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention
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Markus Tauschek
Imaginations, Constructions and Constraints : Some Concluding Remarks on Heritage, Community and Participation
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Topics and Papers of the Three Trilateral ConferencesContributors
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