TY - JOUR
KW - Intangible cultural heritage
KW - Heritage studies
KW - Binary oppositions
KW - Bio-morphic terms
KW - Dance studies
KW - Ethnochoreology
KW - Post-colonialism
AU - Egil Bakka
AU - Gediminas Karoblis
AB - This article directly responds to an article authored by Iacono and Brown published in Dance Research (2016), and considers issues emerging since its publication. The core topic is the UNESCO Convention from 2003, and in our view, criticism in the 2016 article is based on misinterpretation. We address the claims that the Convention is marked by binarism and provide in-depth background for the concept of intangible cultural heritage. We also caution against using the biomorphic term  living cultural heritage  as its application stands in an ambiguous relation toward essentialist, organicist and totalitarian ideologies. We end with a discussion on attitudes toward globalisation and the concept of innovation. These, we argue, have profound implications for recent discussions on decolonisation.
BT - Dance Research
DA - nov
DO - 10.3366/drs.2021.0345
LA - English
M1 - 2
N1 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
N2 - This article directly responds to an article authored by Iacono and Brown published in Dance Research (2016), and considers issues emerging since its publication. The core topic is the UNESCO Convention from 2003, and in our view, criticism in the 2016 article is based on misinterpretation. We address the claims that the Convention is marked by binarism and provide in-depth background for the concept of intangible cultural heritage. We also caution against using the biomorphic term  living cultural heritage  as its application stands in an ambiguous relation toward essentialist, organicist and totalitarian ideologies. We end with a discussion on attitudes toward globalisation and the concept of innovation. These, we argue, have profound implications for recent discussions on decolonisation.
PY - 2021
SP - 247
EP - 263
T2 - Dance Research
TI - Decolonising or Recolonising: Struggles on Cultural Heritage
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85119291686&doi=10.3366%2fdrs.2021.0345&partnerID=40&md5=463131e0cf653330efc1234e4f3780f2
VL - 39
SN - 02642875 (ISSN)
ER -