TY - JOUR
KW - heritage
KW - alpinism
KW - falconry
KW - Scale
KW - sharedness
KW - transnationalism
KW - UNESCO flamenco
AU - Bernard Debarbieux
AU - Chiara Bortolotto
AU - Hervé Munz
AU - Cecilia Raziano
AB - UNESCO heritage policies encourage the idea that heritage should be ‘shared’ at the international scale, and invite states and the involved actors to adopt this vision. Yet, ‘sharedness’ can be understood in many different ways. This paper explores several territorial and political issues related to this notion of sharedness. A focus on the uses of a particular UNESCO tool–‘multinational nominations’–sheds a light on transnational cultural practices and examines forms of cooperation within communities and between states in the framework of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). Specifically, it analyses the work of a French commission for the ICH as well as the nomination processes of three different cultural practices to the ICH lists: flamenco, falconry and alpinism. It is argued that ‘shared heritage’ is interpreted in a variety of ways, leading to contrastive appropriations and competing territorial scenarios among the various protagonists.
BT - Territory, Politics, Governance
DO - 10.1080/21622671.2020.1854112
LA - English
N1 - Publisher: Routledge
N2 - UNESCO heritage policies encourage the idea that heritage should be ‘shared’ at the international scale, and invite states and the involved actors to adopt this vision. Yet, ‘sharedness’ can be understood in many different ways. This paper explores several territorial and political issues related to this notion of sharedness. A focus on the uses of a particular UNESCO tool–‘multinational nominations’–sheds a light on transnational cultural practices and examines forms of cooperation within communities and between states in the framework of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). Specifically, it analyses the work of a French commission for the ICH as well as the nomination processes of three different cultural practices to the ICH lists: flamenco, falconry and alpinism. It is argued that ‘shared heritage’ is interpreted in a variety of ways, leading to contrastive appropriations and competing territorial scenarios among the various protagonists.
PY - 2021
T2 - Territory, Politics, Governance
TI - Sharing heritage? Politics and territoriality in UNESCO s heritage lists
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85100937810&doi=10.1080%2f21622671.2020.1854112&partnerID=40&md5=0d487f8b3823d29399488b6d5f5a54c9
SN - 21622671 (ISSN)
ER -