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he creation and political uses of "watch-making heritage" in the Neuchâtel region (Switzerland). Since the beginning of the 18th century, the watch-making industry has been crucial in the economic rise and the identity construction of the Swiss Jura region. Not surprisingly, on March 25th, 2003, the Neuchâtel State Council passed a motion calling for the "valorization of watch-making heritage in Neuchâtel". Crystallizing the preoccupations of local leaders around issues of regional development, this political gesture served to launch an important number of projects, which attempt to link the polymorphic notion of "heritage" with the historical traces and current forms of the local watch-making industry. This paper first describes through which steps the organisms of regional tourism and culture have become involved in giving life to the category of "watch-making heritage" and, by the same token, have participated in its permanent recreation. Secondly, it shows how the uses of this category have induced the production of new modes of temporality that underwrite contemporary political action in the canton. |
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