{"title":"Postcards of the Holy Land: kaleidoscopic heritage offered by a modern global object","authors":"D. Schrire","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2193903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2193903","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article examines the heritage potential of postcards following the donation of the David Pearlman Holy Land Postcard Collection to the Folklore Research Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The heritagisation of postcards is attributed to the transformation in the meaning of postcards from a souvenir or a communication device to a collectable through Pearlman’s cataloguing and classification practices, as well as in the process of the institutionalisation of his collection and its digitisation. The value of postcards as a heritage object is discussed through an analysis of ‘used’ postcards produced around the June 1967 War. It discloses momentary incomplete but heterogeneous networks of a mobile object. Considering the ways in which local situations are practiced as part of a global modernity, I argue that the heritage of postcards manifests their innate mobility; they are both tangible material objects and intangible in the way they engage with postal practices. Each postcard in its mobile existence offers a fragment of an experience that ties myths and history to its present. The potential value of the Pearlman collection lies in the way many such fragments are available at once, reflecting one another as a kaleidoscopic heritage.","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"199 1","pages":"441 - 466"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73612974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Pax America to American exceptionalism, American security and beyond: U.S. Legation building in Brazil","authors":"P. Kapp","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2195199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2195199","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Architecture’s ability to not only define a city’s identity but also to convey the values and aspirations of its builders continues to be its most lasting legacy. Great civic architecture, which has endured throughout the ages, becomes cultural property, which is codified for protection as “World Heritage Sites.” This article presents the challenges and the opportunities of designing a new U.S. Embassy in Brasilia, the capital of Brazil and a World Heritage Site. Built in 1960, the current embassy was designed to convey collaboration with the USA and its host country by following the planners’ modernist design vision. The new embassy will have to be designed for counterterrorism, convey democratic ideals, and not undermine the cultural property value of the World Heritage Site. Through an examination of the Department of State’s history of legation building, the paper concludes by proposing ways that respond to the cultural diversity in Brasilia.","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"111 1","pages":"505 - 523"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82178791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage: exploring the synergies in the transmission of Indigenous languages, dance and music practices in Southern Africa","authors":"Solomon Gwerevende, Z. Mthombeni","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2193902","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2193902","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Like other forms of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH), Indigenous music and dance cultures have been adversely affected by significant social, economic, technological, and ecological modifications. The resultant transformations in cultural contexts, function, modes of transmission, and performance have endangered the sustainability of several music and dance traditions and their transmission languages. Moreover, efforts to actively support the vitality of jeopardised cultural heritage are being developed and implemented in the emerging fields of applied ethnomusicology, ethnochoreology and linguistics. The area of Indigenous language safeguarding has theoretical, epistemological, and practical models comparable to safeguarding Indigenous music and dance traditions. This similarity is essential to developing interdisciplinary models, policies, and strategies to support the transmission of Indigenous choreomusical and linguistic heritage. Therefore, this article demonstrates how Indigenous music, dance, and language are integral to African cultural heritage and argues for an interdisciplinary community-based model to safeguard them as part of the same cultural ecosystem.","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"16 1","pages":"398 - 412"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88090814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indigenous-based heritage management of UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Rapa Nui and the Indigenous governance of the Rapa Nui National Park","authors":"Carles Jornet Aguareles","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2193814","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2193814","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The role of Indigenous peoples in World Heritage Sites remains a controversial topic in regard to the 1972 World Heritage Convention. This paper aims to determine this role, as recognised by UNESCO, by pursuing a systematic analysis of the Operational Guidelines for the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention. Furthermore, the Rapa Nui National Park (Rapa Nui/Easter Island) is presented as a case study to exemplify an Indigenous-based governance of a World Heritage Site. By way of an investigation intersecting a documentary analysis of the Operational Guidelines and a descriptive case study of the Rapa Nui National Park based on ethnographic data, this paper aims to show how Indigenous-based management systems of World Heritage Sites can constitute strategies that stand in harmony with Indigenous rights within protected areas.","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"187 1","pages":"413 - 427"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87039772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Exploring multiple dimensions of attachment to historic urban places, a case study of Edinburgh, Scotland","authors":"Yang Wang","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2193817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2193817","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper is concerned with people’s attachments to historic urban places they experience in their daily lives. The topic has received growing emphasis in the realm of heritage studies, given its importance to the conservation and management of historic urban environments. Drawing on qualitative data collected from thirty in-depth interviews carried out in Edinburgh, Scotland, I explore the multiple ways in which (known as dimensions in place attachment literature) people develop attachments to historic urban places: from a kind of autobiographic attachments which were grounded in their everyday living and memories, and those of their families to intellectual attachments wherein they showcased their deep appreciation for the attributes that define a historic place. I also seek to demonstrate a class-specific nature of attachments at the intellectual level, adding a politicised view to the complexity of the phenomenon. In so doing, I demonstrate the many ways in which historic places are important to people’s enjoyment of lives in the city, and the various roles the history of places and/or their historic attributes played in forging such attachments. I conclude the paper with discussions on findings related to the current state of knowledge in place attachment research and implications for heritage practices.","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"35 1","pages":"428 - 440"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86555248","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning about conflict: the role of community museums in educating on difficult heritage in a divided society","authors":"Magdalena Weiglhofer, A. McCully, Jessica Bates","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2189741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2189741","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Community museums can be contested sites for learning as they often communicate clear, subjective narratives that challenge mainstream ideas of the past by introducing knowledge that they know to be uncomfortable, rather than displaying multiple perspectives on a violent past. For that reason, educators of history in a divided society may be cautious to expose their students to such information, as their school curricula aim to create both greater social cohesion and criticality in their students that the emotion-laden museum environment could distort. This paper scrutinises the role that two community museums, each located in one of Northern Ireland’s two major identity traditions, play in educating on difficult heritage and, particularly, how conscious each is of developing young people’s critical thinking. Thereby, the underlying values and observed approach to emotions of museums are considered, alongside staff cooperation with teachers, to find out which concept of learning, if any, the museums follow. Key findings reflect a passionate but restricted view of education which lacks a defined concept of what education should be, and how exactly people learn.","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"365 - 381"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89649372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The migration heritage corridor: transnationalism, modernity and race","authors":"D. Byrne","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2183884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2183884","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Currently, heritage practice brings a nation-centric lens to the heritage of migration, privileging narratives of arrival and settlement over narratives of return, circulatory transnational flows, and cross-border connectivity. Drawing on the case of Chinese migration to Australia in the period from the 1840s to the 1940s, the ‘heritage corridor’ concept is proposed here as an aid in conceptualising a heritage that escapes the nation-state frame of reference. The aspirational modernity of Chinese migrants in this period led them to construct new houses, schools, and infrastructure in their home villages in China using money earned in Australia, even though in Australia at this time Chinese migrants were characterised as premodern misfits by a white majority that saw itself as modern and progressive. In relegating Chinese migrants to the past, white Australia conferred on them a state of non-belonging that I argue is perpetuated in the country’s heritage system by a form of structural racism which, embedded in site listing processes, minimises the visibility of Chinese Australians in the heritage record.","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"29 1","pages":"329 - 345"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83353521","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Architecture of memorialisation: the Spitfire and the making of a memorial icon","authors":"C. Palmer, G. Bird","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2187858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2187858","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT During the Second World War, the Supermarine Spitfire played a pivotal role defending the British nation, notably during the 1940 Battle of Britain. Drawing from the aircraft’s historiography and its continuing afterlife, we discuss the constitutive elements supporting the Spitfire’s transformation from war plane to memorial icon for the British wartime experience. In the context of this machine as memorial, the elements comprising what we refer to as the architecture of memorialisation are narrative permanence, enchantment of war technology, dialogic geometry of remembrance and commemorative adaptive capacity. These elements work to silence war, killing and death and in so doing justify a nation’s values, its moral compass. While these four elements may be unique to this aircraft, the architecture of memorialisation is a conceptual framework for analysing other types of memorials including those that are contested or which reflect regimes of power or cultures of remembrance very different to those of the United Kingdom (UK). Diverse social and cultural contexts will reveal different constitutive elements of the architecture of memorialisation.","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"346 - 362"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83216291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of conservation policies in local understandings of heritage in living heritage places: a Greek testimony","authors":"Ioanna Katapidi","doi":"10.1080/13527258.2023.2181377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2023.2181377","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite the widespread acknowledgement of the role of local communities in heritage co-production and management, conservation approaches often remain top-down, ‘expert’ driven and state-centred. This paper considers the pragmatic manner in which heritage conservation policies affect local understandings of heritage. Focusing on the lived Greek heritage of traditional settlements, this paper interrogates the underexplored experienced angles to heritage conservation in conjunction with the official narratives. Expanding our knowledge on the impacts of conservation on heritage values, the paper argues that conservation policies can negatively affect local notions of heritage if the living aspect is not tactfully addressed and balanced against preservation priorities. The research furthers our understanding on the damaging impact of the AHD, problematising the disjunction between authorised and grassroots stances to living and lived heritage and providing a point of reference in respect to the dependent relationship between heritage conservation approaches and local community’s understanding of heritage.","PeriodicalId":47807,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Heritage Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"275 - 293"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81542740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}