02590nas a2200337   4500000000100000000000100001000000100002008004100003260000800044653002200052653002200074653001900096653002100115653002600136653002400162653004800186653003500234653002300269653003200292653003400324653003700358653003300395100002200428700001800450245011600468856014900584300001200733490000700745520148000752022002002232       2017                            d  cnov10acultural heritage10acultural recovery10adisaster ruins10adisaster tourism10aQiang ethnic minority10aWenchuan earthquake10aEconomic and social development (THE\_5342)10aIndigenous peoples (THE\_1844)10aTourism (THE\_202)10aMinority groups (THE\_1697)10aNatural disasters (ICH\_1239)10aEmergency situations (ICH\_1333)10aDegraded habitat (ICH\_1300)1 aKatiana Le Mentec1 aQiaoyun Zhang00aHeritagization of disaster ruins and ethnic culture in China: Recovery plans after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85033666840&doi=10.1177%2f0920203X17736508&partnerID=40&md5=98b0b33f84d17f289fc5b3a16dd17c92  a349-3700 v313 aThis article discusses state-led heritagization processes in Beichuan and Wenchuan Counties, two Qiang ethnic minority areas severely affected by the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (China). Certain destroyed landscapes were preserved and turned into earthquake relic sites. In particular, the former Beichuan County seat was entirely heritagized for memorial, economic, and patriotic education purposes, causing an emotional conflict with locals still affected by loss and trauma. At the same time, Qiang cultural practices were hastily registered as national and international intangible cultural heritage, while reconstructed Qiang villages were transformed into heritage tourism destinations. These initiatives tend to reshape Qiang culture elements into fetishized commodities. Allocating massive funds to historically marginalized regions, these post-disaster heritagization programmes aimed at boosting economic recovery, as well as demonstrating state power, national unity and solidarity. Implemented using a top–down method, they appear insensitive to the affected population’s trauma and the sociohistorical context from which the newly heritagized elements originate. The disaster and Qiang culture heritage tourism not only failed to bring about sustainable economic development to the earthquake-stricken areas, but also ignored to a large extent the initial goal of ‘post-disaster cultural recovery’ and the virtues of cultural heritage in recovery processes.  a0920203X (ISSN)