UNESCO frictions : Heritage-making across global governance
Ce projet explore les politiques du patrimoine à l’ère de la gouvernance globale. Il retrace la vie sociale de la Convention de l’Unesco pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel (PCI), dès débats diplomatiques dans les salles de l’Unesco, à travers son application par les institutions nationales du patrimoine, jusqu’à son appropriation dans des projets locaux de mise en patrimoine. Une observation ethnographique des situations où des régimes de patrimonialité différents doivent composer les uns avec les autres dans trois États (Grèce, Brésil, et Chine) permet d’étudier les controverses que suscite dans chaque cas l’interprétation du tournant participatif promu par la Convention de l’Unesco. L’expertise anthropologique recouvrant le domaine du PCI, nous investissons ces zones de contact en collaborant aux politiques du PCI comme acteurs et observateurs. Cette combinaison d’ethnographie multi-échelles et multi-postures soulève des dilemmes multiples qui seront analysés réflexivement pour interroger in fine le rôle public de l’anthropologue.
This project explores cultural heritage policies in the era of global governance. It traces the social life of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) from diplomatic discussions in UNESCO boardrooms, through its implementation by national heritage institutions, to its appropriation in local heritage projects. An ethnographic observation of the scenes of encounter between different heritage regimes in three case-study countries (Greece, Brazil and China) investigates the controversies arising from the interpretations of the participatory shift introduced by the UNESCO convention in each case. As anthropological expertise overlaps with the field of ICH, we access these contact zones by engaging with ICH policy implementation as actors and observers. This combination of multi-scale and multi-positioned ethnography raises manifold dilemmas that are reflexively explored with the aim of interrogating the public role of anthropology.
Coordinatrice
Chiara Bortolotto (EHESS)
Equipe
EHESS / IIAC
Partenaires et membres du projet
- Partenaires
Master professionnel "Expertise ethnologique en patrimoine immatériel", Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès.
- Membres
Philipp Demgenski, Panas Karampampas, Simone Toji
Mot clés
Patrimoine - UNESCO - gouvernance globale - gouvernementalité - ethnographie des institutions - participation - collaboration - réflexivité - Brésil - Chine - Grèce.
Publications
- 2015 Chiara Bortolotto avec Nicolas Adell, Regina Bendix et Markus Tauschek, Between Imagined Communities and Communities of Practice: Participation, Territoritory and the Making of Heritage. Göttingen Studies on Cultural Property. Göttingen, Universitätsverlag Göttingen. (Open Access)
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Patrimônio cultural imaterial e desenvolvimento sustentável: conceitos, uso e desafios
Projeto UNESCO frictions Workshop - 9 e 10 de Março 2020 O patrimônio cultural imaterial é considerado algo vivo, em evolução e transformação, sendo a mudança nesse sentido uma parte inerente de sua salvaguarda. Os atores envolvidos no campo patrimônio enfrentam então decisões delicadas, tendo em vista que nem todas as formas de transformação podem...

Collaborative dilemmas
"Collaborative dilemmas" Workshop organized within the project “ Unesco frictions: Heritage-making across global governance ” in collaboration with the EASA network on Anthropology of International Governance. École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Institut interdisciplinaire d’anthropologie du contemporain . Workshop organized by Chiara Bortolotto (IIAC/LAHIC, PI UNESCO frictions) Policymaking and implementation across state institutions, international...
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Table-ronde virtuelle "Collaborative dilemmas" in the age of uncertainty
Against the backdrop of increasing projectization and casualization of research, academic insecurity, and existential anxiety for new generations of researchers, collaborative research with international organizations, state agencies or NGOs takes on the corollary function of providing professional status and remunerated jobs that universities do not offer to the growing academic precariat. Collaborative dilemmas” was the...
