Little willies as community-building heritage: A bottom-up approach to the European Capital of Culture initiative

IF 0.6 4区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN STUDIES Pub Date : 2022-09-12 DOI:10.1177/00472441221115570

Laura van den Bergh

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The ambitious 11fountains project was a flagship feature of the programme that won Leeuwarden (Netherlands) the title of European Capital of Culture for 2018. Eleven international artists were invited to design fountains for 11 towns in the province of Friesland. Feeling side-lined in the project, local Frisians responded by erecting their own fountain, which was decorated with 230 stylised penises and concealed a toilet. Drawing on theories of heritage and community formation to frame this fountain as a case study, I develop a concept of ‘community-building heritage’. Community-building heritage is participatory, dependent on citizen contributions and explicitly aims to mobilise and connect individual contributors in a community. Understanding community-building heritage as an act of cultural self-signification, I argue that its facilitation within the European Capital of Culture initiative, either in official programming or as counter-initiative, may contribute to a more bottom-up and constructivist approach towards community constitution within European Union cultural policies.

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作为社区建筑遗产的小遗嘱：欧洲文化之都倡议的自下而上的方法

这个雄心勃勃的11个喷泉项目是该项目的旗舰特色，该项目为荷兰吕沃登赢得了2018年欧洲文化之都的称号。11位国际艺术家受邀为弗里斯兰省的11个城镇设计喷泉。当地的弗里斯兰人觉得自己在这个项目中被边缘化了，于是建造了自己的喷泉，喷泉上装饰着230个风格鲜明的阴茎，并隐藏了一个厕所。利用遗产和社区形成的理论来构建这个喷泉作为案例研究，我提出了“社区建设遗产”的概念。社区建设遗产是参与性的，依赖于公民的贡献，其明确目标是动员和联系社区中的个人贡献者。将社区建设遗产理解为一种文化自我意义的行为，我认为它在欧洲文化之都倡议中的促进作用，无论是在官方规划中还是作为反倡议，都可能有助于在欧盟文化政策中对社区宪法采取更自下而上和建构主义的方法。

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期刊介绍： Journal of European Studies is firmly established as one of the leading interdisciplinary humanities and cultural studies journals in universities and other academic institutions. From time to time, individual issue concentrate on particular themes. Review essays and review notices also offer a wide and informed coverage of many books that are published on European cultural themes.