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Record Nr.

UNINA9910137038903321

Autore

Adell Nicolas

Titolo

Between imagined communities  and communities of practice : participation, territory and the making of heritage / / edited by Nicolas Adell, Regina F. Bendix, Chiara Bortolotto and Markus Tauschek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Universitätsverlag Göttingen, 2015

Göttingen, Germany : , : Universitätsverlag Göttingen, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

2-8218-7549-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (315 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Open Access e-Books

Knowledge Unlatched

Göttingen studies in cultural property, , 2190-8672 ; ; volume 8

Disciplina

306.42

Soggetti

Community development

Communities of practice

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Community Conundrums --Community and territory from legal perspectives --Cultural values and community involvement beyond UNESCO --Reflections on heritage experts and decision makers.

Sommario/riassunto

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.