Heritage & societyPub Date : 2023-10-12DOI: 10.1080/2159032x.2023.2266801
Carlotta Capurro, Marta Severo
{"title":"Mapping European Digital Heritage Politics: An Empirical Study of Europeana as a Web-based Network","authors":"Carlotta Capurro, Marta Severo","doi":"10.1080/2159032x.2023.2266801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159032x.2023.2266801","url":null,"abstract":"Europeana is a cultural heritage initiative financed by the European Union (EU) with the primary scope of curating a platform aggregating digital collections of European cultural heritage. Among other tasks, Europeana designs best practices and digital tools aligned with the EU’s digital cultural policy to support the digitization of cultural heritage institutions in the member states. Therefore, it can be considered a socio-political actor building an international network. Nevertheless, it has mainly been studied as a digital service. To investigate Europeana’s impact on the European cultural sector, this work proposes a three-level methodology combining web mapping, close reading of websites, and statistical analysis. This methodology offers a comprehensive picture of the Europeana platform’s role on the web, providing evidence of its action as a social hub gathering a network of national and local actors in the European cultural environment.","PeriodicalId":73234,"journal":{"name":"Heritage & society","volume":"248 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136013107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Heritage & societyPub Date : 2023-07-06DOI: 10.1080/2159032X.2023.2226572
Beatriz Santamarina
{"title":"The Global Competition of the Intangible. UNESCO as a Producer of Heritage Brands","authors":"Beatriz Santamarina","doi":"10.1080/2159032X.2023.2226572","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159032X.2023.2226572","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In 2003, UNESCO took a turn in its heritage policies with the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. From that point on, intangible assets were equated in quality and character with the cultural and natural heritage that had been defined as world heritage three decades earlier. The beginning of this recognition coincided with the expansion of the creative economy and the development of the new spirit of capitalism. In this context, this paper aims to analyze how the market opened up to the intangible by examining the Fallas Festivity (Spain), included in the List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2016. For this purpose, we present the different levels of competition that come into play; explore how a variety of different meanings are shaped when a UNESCO asset is activated by the political sphere and the media; and we examine the bureaucratic process involved in achieving a UNESCO listing. The case considered here allows us to observe the existence of a global competition for entering the heritage market circuit, which has become increasingly demanding and linked to the demands of the tourism industry, in which the UNESCO brand plays a key role. The global struggle for the UNESCO seal and heritage brand management has placed our collective heritage in a prominent position in political agendas.","PeriodicalId":73234,"journal":{"name":"Heritage & society","volume":"5 1","pages":"251 - 270"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91188897","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Heritage & societyPub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/2159032X.2022.2098653
Laura Coltofean-Arizancu, Tommaso Mattioli, Margarita Díaz-Andreu
{"title":"Communicating and Disseminating Rock Art Research on Facebook: The ERC Artsoundscapes Project Goes Public.","authors":"Laura Coltofean-Arizancu, Tommaso Mattioli, Margarita Díaz-Andreu","doi":"10.1080/2159032X.2022.2098653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159032X.2022.2098653","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article explores the potential of social media in disseminating and communicating archaeological knowledge and the ways in which their impact on the public can be enhanced through marketing plans. It examines the implementation of such a plan in the context of the Facebook page of the ERC Advanced Grant project \"The sound of special places: exploring rock art soundscapes and the sacred\" (acronym: Artsoundscapes). Using quantitative and qualitative data provided by the Facebook Insights altmetrics tool, the article evaluates the general performance of the Artsoundscapes page and measures the effectiveness of the marketing plan. It discusses the components of marketing plans with emphasis on a carefully designed content strategy that, in the case of the Artsoundscapes Facebook page, in only 19 months of existence has resulted in the organic development of an active online community of 757 fans and 787 followers from 45 countries. The marketing plan has contributed to raising awareness of the Artsoundscapes project and an emerging, highly specialized and little-known branch of archaeology - the archaeoacoustics of rock art sites. It rapidly and engagingly disseminates the project's activities and outcomes among both specialist and non-specialist audiences, and informs the non-specialist public about relevant advances in the multiple fields - rock art studies, acoustics, music archaeology and ethnomusicology - that intersect in it. The article concludes that social media are effective means for archaeologists and archaeological organizations and projects to reach various audiences, and that marketing plans significantly augment this process.</p>","PeriodicalId":73234,"journal":{"name":"Heritage & society","volume":"15 2","pages":"113-139"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pub/pmc/oa_pdf/d5/fe/YHSO_15_2098653.PMC9970187.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10823932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Heritage & societyPub Date : 2021-02-09eCollection Date: 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1080/2159032X.2021.1883981
Britta Timm Knudsen, Christoffer Kølvraa
{"title":"Affective Infrastructures of Re-emergence? Exploring Modalities of Heritage Practices in Nantes.","authors":"Britta Timm Knudsen, Christoffer Kølvraa","doi":"10.1080/2159032X.2021.1883981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159032X.2021.1883981","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The French city of Nantes has been heralded for both its creative and complex engagements with the dark heritage of its history as France's main slave port. In this article we examine the ways in which the colonial heritage has been dealt with in Nantes, arguing that we find here various processes and initiatives which can be understood as expressing or combining what we suggest are four main modes of colonial heritage practice: Repression, Removal, Reframing and Re-emergence. We discuss how the city authorities and local organizations with a focus on colonial heritage have ended the silent repression of the city's slave trading heritage, and to some extent entirely reframed the city as a center of avant-garde art and culture, e.g., through the 2012 construction of <i>Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery.</i> Finally, we critically analyze the domesticating effect of this reframing as well as practices of removal which, by contrast, have been used to reintroduce decolonial antagonism and oppositional struggle into the public space in Nantes. Finally we investigate whether street performances of <i>Royal de Luxe</i> might hold what we term potential for re-emergence; a heritage practice entailing both a reemergent aesthetics able to engage the audience at a bodily and affective level, a re-emergent history able to both articulate the past and energize contemporary struggles, and the re-emergence of a broader field of voices and subjects.</p>","PeriodicalId":73234,"journal":{"name":"Heritage & society","volume":"13 1-2","pages":"10-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/2159032X.2021.1883981","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39313226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Heritage & societyPub Date : 2017-09-02DOI: 10.1080/2159032X.2018.1556831
Sarah De Nardi
{"title":"Everyday Heritage Activism in Swat Valley: Ethnographic Reflections on a Politics of Hope","authors":"Sarah De Nardi","doi":"10.1080/2159032X.2018.1556831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159032X.2018.1556831","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The Taliban insurgency and related cultural heritage iconoclasm exacerbated the challenges faced by Swat Valley communities in Northwest Pakistan. Activists within Swat alongside national and international NGOs are helping to reconstruct and protect pre-Islamic cultural heritage sites in the area, which is outlined here. The article highlights the role of heritage activism and counter-iconoclastic drive within Swat as a powerful social drive for reconciliation against a perceived bias that equates Pashtun with Taliban. Sense of place, identity and social and political change influenced both the rise of the Taliban and the reaction against them within Swat. The central argument in this article is shaped on ethnographic participatory research carried out by an Italian NGO, Pakistani archaeologists and activists and the writer, as part of a drive to make pre-Islamic heritage and cultural resource tourism sustainable in Swat in the wake of the post-Taliban reconstruction. Issues of identity and loyalty to insurgent groups have also affected other social groups across the globe. In this light, a discussion of the process of activism through heritage preservation and promotion using the Swat case study may also provide useful insights for other post-conflict communities elsewhere.","PeriodicalId":73234,"journal":{"name":"Heritage & society","volume":"112 1","pages":"237 - 258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80937881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}