TY - JOUR
KW - Intangible cultural heritage
KW - environmental policy
KW - Folklore
KW - resource frontiers
AU - Mary Hufford
AB - This article explores the concept and practice of the commons as a holistic, multi-sectoral, cross-disciplinary framework for critical heritage work on resource frontiers. Drawing from my research on forest commoning in the Appalachian coalfields, I argue that land-based systems of commoning vital to communities in the path of resource extraction merit more attention from heritage workers. Commons tend to disappear through their atomization into siloed objects of study and stewardship. This disappearance, partly a function of reductionist, dualistic thinking, also signals a persistent colonialist myth of emptiness. I argue that the embodied, participatory field methods of public folklorists are particularly well-suited to the study and accreditation of land-based commons as heritage. Building on the idea of ‘deep ecology’, the notion of ‘deep commoning’ espouses our implication in worlds we bring into dialogue through the practice of public folklore as critical heritage work.
DO - 10.1080/13527258.2016.1186103
M1 - 8
N1 - Publisher: Routledge
N2 - This article explores the concept and practice of the commons as a holistic, multi-sectoral, cross-disciplinary framework for critical heritage work on resource frontiers. Drawing from my research on forest commoning in the Appalachian coalfields, I argue that land-based systems of commoning vital to communities in the path of resource extraction merit more attention from heritage workers. Commons tend to disappear through their atomization into siloed objects of study and stewardship. This disappearance, partly a function of reductionist, dualistic thinking, also signals a persistent colonialist myth of emptiness. I argue that the embodied, participatory field methods of public folklorists are particularly well-suited to the study and accreditation of land-based commons as heritage. Building on the idea of ‘deep ecology’, the notion of ‘deep commoning’ espouses our implication in worlds we bring into dialogue through the practice of public folklore as critical heritage work.
SP - 635
EP - 649
TI - Deep commoning: public folklore and environmental policy on a resource frontier
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84976319541&doi=10.1080%2f13527258.2016.1186103&partnerID=40&md5=025bbce3b22826b1874d058b855182c8
VL - 22
SN - 13527258 (ISSN)
ER -