Representation Of Heritage Research Articles

The principiums of theatre imagological studies in Ivan Franko works: To the historiography of Polish-Ukrainian relations

For the first time in Ukrainian theatre studies the question of usage of imagological instrumentar­ium for researching history of international, in particular, Polish-Ukrainian art relations is raised. The first ex­plorations using imagological elements was found in theatre heritage of Ivan Franko. Using the example of Ivan Franko article on the history of «vertep» drama (Ukrainian Christmas plays) the first facts were discovered of the usage of ethnoimagological approaches in the process of national theatre studies formation. In particular, Ivan Franko’s approaches to the display of specific features of different national characters in vertep drama were analyzed. Firstly, the image of Cossack was anazyled and considered by the author as the first steps to the enthic stage image study of the Ukrainian in the foreign language theatre space. The complexity of methodological instrumentarium of the scholar is researched as a synthesis of source studies, genealogical and comparative studies with separate aspects of imagology.

O'Neill (Unexpected)

O'Neill (Unexpected)

Current agri-environmental policies dismiss varied perceptions and discourses on management of traditional rural biotopes

Traditional rural biotopes (TRBs) are threatened habitats that host significant biodiversity and several ecosystem services, and depend on active management such as low-intensity grazing. The current study explores private landowners’ decision-making on TRB management and abandonment within a social-ecological system framework. We provide insight into supporting resilience of TRB systems in the face of agricultural modernization. Using a mixed methods approach with content analysis and Q analysis, we demonstrate that TRB management fosters cultural, biological, aesthetic, and utilitarian values. These are reflected in different ways through conservationist’s, profit-oriented farmer’s, landscape manager’s, and landscape admirer’s discourses on TRB management. Overall, management reinforces landowners’ place attachment, and reflects an approach to landscapes as spatial representations of cultural heritage and identity over multiple generations. Landowners consider TRB pasturage and its social-ecological outcomes motivating and rewarding. Giving up grazing cattle and perceived bureaucracy of national agri-environment scheme contribute to TRB abandonment. Landowners point out that current policies detach TRB management from what is seen as “regular agriculture”, and the focus on monetary compensation bypasses the multiple values tied to TRB management. Based on our results, we suggest that promoting TRBs requires reconfiguring the current arrangement of remedial management payments and adopting a more participatory governance approach. Locally, resilience of TRB systems relies on the connections between landowners and landscapes that foster sense of place and landscape identity, which can be supported by knowledge sharing and collaborative grazing efforts among landowners.

Communist heritage representation gaps and disputes

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to identify and explore how different stakeholders represent communist and revolution heritage for tourism, with a case-study on Bucharest, the capital city of Romania. The research attempts to identify gaps and tensions between representation makers on communist heritage tourism.Design/methodology/approachThe research employs a range of qualitative methods in order to explore communist heritage tourism representation from different perspectives: content analysis of secondary data in the form of government, industry and media destination promotional material; interviews with a range of representation producers (government, industry and media); focus groups with potential tourists; and content analysis of user generated content under the form of blogs by actual visitors to Bucharest.FindingsFindings reveal that there are gaps between the “official” or government representations of communism and revolution heritage and “unofficial” or industry, media and tourists’ representations. The research confirms and builds on Light’s (2000a, b) views that communist heritage is perceived as “problematic” by government officials and that attempts have been made to reinterpret it in a different light. The process of representation is made difficult by recent trends such as the increase in popularity of communism heritage tourism in countries such as Germany or Hungary. The potential of communist and revolution heritage to generate tourism is increasingly being acknowledged. However, reconciliation with “an unwanted” past is made difficult because of the legacy of communism and the difficulties of transition, EU-integration, economic crisis or countless political and social crisis and challenges. The “official” and “unofficial” representations successfully coexist and form part of the communism and revolution heritage product.Research limitations/implicationsThe research attempts to look at the representation of communism heritage from different angles, however, it does not exhaust the number of views and perspectives that exist on the topic. The research only records the British and Romanian perspectives on the topic. The topic is still in its infancy and more research is needed on communism heritage tourism and representation.Originality/valueThe research identifies and explores gaps, agreements and disagreements over the representation of communist and revolution heritage in Bucharest, Romania.

The cultural game of a noble life – (re)presenting historical manors Gatchina and Schloss Fall in comparative perspective

ABSTRACTThe historic manors of Gatchina and Schloss Fall provide excellent material for comparative study of heritage management and representation. Johan Huizinga’s theoretical framework for describing the ‘cultural game’ provides a stereoscopic vision of practices used at both sites to create desirable historical narratives and to sell them to tourists. Both museums have rich histories and offer a variety of visual attractions such as palaces and parks, however, we find the methods used to create intangible heritage as a marketable commodity to be more compelling. We argue that the history and stories behind the visual beauty are an inseparable part of the ‘historic play’ utilised at each site to involve tourists. Moreover, such ‘play’ is, to some extent, a key objective of heritage management in general and serious tasks such as restoration and research cannot be understood properly outside of this context.

‘We love the bands and we want to keep them on the walls’: gig posters as heritage-as-praxis in music venues

Gig posters and flyers have remained a reliable means of promoting musical performances well into the digital age. Although the primary function of posters is publicity for both musical acts and venues alike, they are often retained as memorabilia of a performance long after the last note has rung out. They are, however, an under-examined aspect of popular music’s culture and heritage. While posters have been included as part of the material items that make up popular music heritage when studies of this have been undertaken, the particular roles that they can play in this area have not yet been examined. However, when taken as an aspect of music heritage posters are significant as representations of an ephemeral ‘moment’ within local music history for both audiences and performers. Furthermore, as venue décor they align performance sites with a range of musical and aesthetic identifiers that act as visual representations of heritage. We argue that the posters are a form of heritage-as-praxis that helps to create a sense of identity and community in the venue, giving punters a clear idea of what the venue provides musically, and signifying the space as representative of a certain subsection of the city’s broader music scene.

Re-Imagine

Re-Imagine

ПРОЕКТНА ДІЯЛЬНІСТЬ ЯК ФОРМА СОЦІАЛЬНОЇ АКТИВНОСТІ СУЧАСНИХ МУЗЕЇВ

The purpose of the article is to consider museum as an important resource for investment in the future of society and to analyze project activity as a form of social activity of modern museums as a means of constructing cultural, communicative and educational space in the context of transformation and modification of museum activity. The research method ology was based on the general scientific principle of objectivity, culturological, structural-functional and analytical methods in the course of analysis of theoretical works on museology, cultural and educational work of museums, the subject field of which relates to project activity. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the first attempt in scientific literature to collect and analyze the facts concerning the influence of new forms of social activity of museum on the realization of its basic functions (conservation, research work, popularization). Conclusions. It was established that the theoretical basis for the development of social activity of modern museums rests upon the provisions of the «New Museology». It was proved that at the present stage museums act as intermediaries in solving complex social problems and conflicts; projects, as an effective form of implementing social activity of museums, contribute to the adaptation of museums and the museum industry as a whole to modern conditions of socio-economic and cultural life, support and promotion of the best examples of creative museum practices in Ukraine, identification, comprehension and wide representation of historical and cultural heritage, the expansion of partnership links between museums and the introduction of new tools and technologies.

Absence and presence: Lope’s and Shakespeare’s reception through cinema

Both Lope de Vega and Shakespeare enjoyed the favor of the public when they were alive; however, their posthumous fortunes have been very different. In this paper we use a statistical approach to analyse the impact that the cinematographic adaptations of their plays have had in diseminating Lope de Vega and Shakespeare's heritage during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We also addres the lack of cinematographical adaptations of Lope’s works, and explain the neglect suffered by this theatrical heritage in Spain and beyond.

Malaysia. Museums, history and culture in Malaysia By Abu Talib Ahmad Singapore: NUS Press, 2015. Pp. 328. Tables, Maps, Illustrations, Abbreviations, Glossary, Bibliography, Index.

Malaysia. Museums, history and culture in Malaysia By Abu Talib Ahmad Singapore: NUS Press, 2015. Pp. 328. Tables, Maps, Illustrations, Abbreviations, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. - Volume 48 Issue 1

Theatrical Heritage: Challenges and Opportunities ed. by Bruno Forment and Christel Stalpaert

Theatrical Heritage: Challenges and Opportunities ed. by Bruno Forment and Christel Stalpaert

Inglês

This article deals with form in a circle as the African position themselves to dance, and that this legacy is manifested in Candomble in Brazil in the concluding moments of his beliefs to the Orishas, seek to highlight the representation and symbolism of dance, rhythm and body in religious moments in the holy yards. Describe the dance associated with the orishas and their stories through gestural, these acts born of a peculiar symbology to a religious space that carries in its African heritage representations. In this context, we discuss that religious moments of Candomble dances are organized into choreography is during the celebration or the incorporation of-saint children-, and that they are distinct, and only a long coexistence as ritual, those who attend consent know them and describes them, that is, what the orisha being represented. However, the corner will also address historical issues and stages experienced by orishas on the earth plane and touches performed on percussion instruments will give the style tone to be danced at the time that the orishas present in candomble yard. Moreover, we evidenced the body's relationship to religion in an intense and extensive learning process, which are internalized according to the dogmas, religious foundations and the archetype of the orishas, bequests that are transmitted to the initiated in Candomble by older religious of community.

El secreto, esencia de la comedia lopesca-calderoniana, y su intensificación en Sor Juana

Secrets, the essence of drama as a genre since its classical origins, characterize Medieval popular theatre and tipify Lope's comedia which Calderon perfects. Reworking their theatrical heritage, Sor Juana carries this genre beyond the horizon of expectation, as she intensifies the techniques that generate the complication of secrets from the first act of both of her comedies, Los empenos de una casa («Pawns of a House») and Amor es mas laberinto («Love is a Greater Labyrinth»).

Angkor, lost city or inhabited site? Understanding the building process of tourist imaginaries

Taking the case of Angkor in Cambodia, inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List since 1992, this paper explores the coexistence of shifted representations of heritage between two social groups ; the visitors and the local population. After having exposed their representations of Angkor through interviews and mental maps realized in situ, this article tackles the process of building tourist imaginaries. This approach shows how interactions between images and tourist imaginaries draw Angkor as...

Scalar politics of border heritage: an examination of the EU’s northern and southern border areas

ABSTRACTThis paper studies the production and representation of border heritage in tourist sites and events. Understanding heritage as a form of collective memory, subject to continual active renegotiation in which past events and artifacts are portrayed selectively, border heritage is a focal element in the shaping of spatial identities. The empirical focus is on the EU border regions that have become arenas for collaborative tourism development. Since the internal border regions are the key sites of the territorial cohesion policy of the EU, the selection of a particular heritage may be indicative of the development of the spatial identities in the area. Yet the type of the border has an impact on the modes of heritage-making. Drawing on various materials, documents and fieldwork at sites of heritage tourism, the study examines how the traditions and past events of the Finnish-Swedish and Spanish-Portuguese borders are memorialized in EU-funded tourism development. The approaches of geographical scale and scalar politics are employed as an analytical lens through which the sites and events of border heritage-making are examined. The study shows that border heritage in the EU border areas is constructed through multiple scales, thus offering parallel versions of the past.

The Heritage of Displacement: Forced Migration in the Mediterranean through History

The Heritage of Displacement: Forced Migration in the Mediterranean through History

Bilingual children and adult heritage speakers: The range of comparison

This paper compares the language of child bilinguals and adult unbalanced bilinguals (heritage speakers) against that of bilingual native speakers of their home language (baseline). We identify four major vectors of correspondence across the language spoken by these three groups. First, all varieties may represent a given linguistic property in a similar way (child bilinguals = adult heritage speakers = bilingual native speakers of their home language). This occurs when either (i) the property in question is highly robust and is acquired by learners without difficulty or (ii) the property is already in decline in the baseline. We illustrate scenario (i) with data from Russian count forms, which are morphologically quite complex. The preservation of these forms in child bilinguals and adult heritage speakers suggests that simplicity of encoding is not the only factor determining robustness of retention. Second, child and heritage speakers may share a linguistic structure that differs from the one found in the baseline (bilingual native speakers of their home language ≠ child bilinguals = adult heritage speakers). This scenario occurs when incipient structural changes in the baseline become amplified in the language of next-generation bilinguals, or when a given structure is rare, confined to a specific register, and/or reinforced through literacy. Third, a structure may be acquired by bilingual children faithfully, but undergo reanalysis/attrition in the adult heritage language (bilingual native speakers of their home language = child bilinguals ≠ adult heritage speakers). Russian relativization illustrates this scenario; child bilinguals show native-like performance on relative clauses but adult heritage speakers show an exaggerated subject preference in the interpretation of gaps. Finally, a structure that is not fully learned by child speakers may be reanalyzed by adult heritage speakers following general principles, thus bringing the adult heritage representation closer to that of the baseline (bilingual native speakers of their home language = adult heritage speakers ≠ child bilinguals). Heritage speakers’ production and comprehension of psychological predicates in Spanish illustrates this possibility.

Protest, Bodies, and the Grounds of Memory: Taksim Square as ‘heritage site’ and the 2013 Gezi Protests

This paper examines heritage representations within the 2013 “Gezi” protests in Turkey, focusing on the contest over the historical, social, and political significance of Gezi Park in Taksim, Istanbul. Gezi Park is a multi-layered urban space, once associated with the Armenian community, then with the Ottoman military and finally, from the 1930s, with the modernist urbanism of the secular Republic. Prior to the protests, the conservative Islamist administration planned to erase and refashion Gezi Park as a site of neo-Ottoman nostalgia. While the protests were associated with ecological and civil society concerns, the contest between protestors and state actors was also characterized by competing mobilizations of histories and notions of legitimate heritage over a range of representational sites and forms, from political speeches to protestors’ performances. Combining an analysis of these representations with interview data we explore Taksim-Gezi as a site of “ground memories” that are selectively articulated and strategically renewed by different groups. The state attempt to erase and remake place in a specific historical image was countered by people's diverse mnemonic and socio-ideological relations to place histories, that became repertories for reaction. We argue that civil crises like protests may help us to understand and problematize the spatio-temporal, multi-relational articulations of heritage, and, vice versa, a view through heritage and memory opens critical exposures of socio-political conflict.

Contesting conservation-planning: insights from Ireland

In most European countries, the 20th Century witnessed a growing interest in urban conservation as both a social movement and public policy domain, and by the 1960s urban conservation had emerged as a key planning and urban policy goal and a central feature of how cities positioned themselves within the globalised economy. However, where it evolves in contentious political contexts, urban conservation can be framed by competing priorities reflecting collective remembering, cultural politics and identities intertwined with the symbolic representation of the built environment. Ireland provides a unique lens to examine these themes in a western European context. Ireland is the only western European country to experience colonial domination. In relation to built heritage, Ireland’s urban centres have their historical roots in successive waves of colonial settlement, and buildings within these urban centres were inevitably perceived as tools of colonial oppression, representing the colonial state and power and domination of colonial capital interests. The built environment was also shaped by the tastes and preferences of the colonial elite, particularly in relation to prominent residences in the urban landscape, and outside of the main urban centres, landlord estates represented domination of landownership and agricultural production, manifested in large estate houses (referred to as the ‘big house’) and remodelled rural villages. This context provides an important backdrop to the evolution of conservation policy and practice in Ireland and to how representations of heritage have been continually (re)shaped in the urban development process. The aim of this paper is to chart the shifting representations of built heritage in Ireland, and their relevance in the emergence of conservation and heritage policy, set in the context of broader social, political and economic change over time. This is achieved, firstly, by a review of secondary source material to identify key events, eras and trends. Discourses of heritage are then examined in debates of the Oireachtas (the Irish legislature), which provide a consistent record of national heritage debates in the Irish state. This identifies tensions around the emergence of built heritage policy in a historic environment largely associated with colonial power and identity, and shifts in how the historic built environment was represented in different eras. These representations range from outright antipathy, towards a more positive revalorisation of heritage, and a recent awakening amongst policymakers to the potential of heritage as a driver of urban regeneration. We then relate these shifting discourses to policy evolution, particularly the late adoption of comprehensive legislative framework for conservation (in 1999) and the important influence of international charters rather than bottom-up or national priorities in policy agenda-setting. Finally, conclusions are developed to identify wider lessons from the production of urban conservation priorities in the context of contested heritage.

Editorial Note

Abstract. A case of plagiarism: This editorial note regards the formally withdrawn article "Documentation, Multi-scale and Multi-dimensional Representation of Cultural Heritage for the Policies of Redevelopment, Development and Regeneration".