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A Folklorist in the Soviet Spotlight
2019
Abstract The article seeks to illuminate the ideologically motivated circumstances of Latvian folklore studies during the period of unconditional Soviet totalitarianism. With the strengthening of the Soviet occupation regime in Latvia in the late 1940s, many interwar folklorists became victims of ideologically motivated disdain and subsequent career limitation. ‘Bourgeois’ scholarship and the methods applied in folklore studies during the interwar period were denounced and recognised as harmful to the new Soviet order. The central part of the article presents a case study of one individual folklorist of the time, Anna Bērzkalne (1891–1956). Both increasing criticism of Bērzkalne’s folklore …
Old Gibellina: the map, the world, the Aleph
2019
The present contribution intends to propose an epistemological reflection on the links and relationships that interweave the map, cultural heritage, landscape and places. I have identified an interpretative horizon that intersects the scientific geographic debate with the literary subject and proposed a specific reading of the site of Old Gibellina in Sicily, Italy, where reality and representation seem to converge. In 1968, Gibellina was razed to the ground by an earthquake. Then the site of Old Gibellina was covered by the ‘Grande Cretto’: the work of Land Art made by the artist Alberto Burri. In my perspective, the Cretto represents a unique place: it is a full-size map, it is landscape…
Heritage Diplomacy Discourses in the EU: Notions on Cultural Diplomacy, Cultural Heritage, and Intercultural Dialogue among EU Officials and Heritage…
2021
The European Commission has recently identified cultural heritage as one of the focus areas for EU cultural diplomacy. The article explores EU cultural diplomacy that deals with cultural heritage and discusses the concept of heritage diplomacy based on a discourse analysis of interviews with EU officials and heritage practitioners working at sites awarded the European Heritage Label. How do EU officials and heritage practitioners understand the role of cultural heritage for cultural diplomacy and what kinds of discourses do they use in talking about it? My analysis indicates that heritage diplomacy means different things for EU officials and heritage practitioners. Their discourses…
Participation, Involvement, and Application in the Field of Ethnological Research, Museums, and Cultural Heritage
2020
Introduction: Jewish cultural heritage, space and mobility in Spain, Portugal and North Africa
2021
Historical perspectives on preventive conservation: readings in conservation
2013
The book is a sixth volume of the Readings in Conservation series by the Getty Conservation Institute. The first volume, Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage...
The definition of culture in culture-based urban development strategies: antagonisms in the construction of a culture-based development discourse
2013
Implementing culture-based development strategies is a recent trend in large and small cities all over Europe. The definition of culture and the objectives of cultural strategies are highly contested in the public debate. Analysing the newspaper debates on the establishment of the Cultiva foundation in Kristiansand, Norway, this article discusses how and why the discursive debate on the definition of culture creates different discursive positions in the public debate on culture-based development. In the different discourses on what these strategies should be, there are a number of antagonisms that contribute to defining the relationships and interfaces between the different discursive posit…
The Role of UNIDROIT in Global Efforts to Protect Cultural Heritage
2019
Becoming Europeans: cultural identity and cultural policies
2011
by Monica Sassatelli, Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 248 pp., £52.00 (hardback), ISBN 9780230537422 In her introduction, Monica Sassatelli remarks that her book concentrates on the explicit i...
Sputniks cubanos. De cómo la URSS ocupó la imaginación de una generación
2015
Resumen: A pesar de la cierta marginalidad de la ciencia ficcion en Cuba, esta no estuvo exenta de la influencia cultural que sufrio la isla al sovietizarse. De la URSS y el entorno comunista llegaron cientos de obras del genero, al mismo tiempo que la produccion local se reducia a cero en los anos setenta. Los autores cubanos tomaron partido, unos defendieron los nuevos estilos e ideas venidos del Este; otros decidieron seguir su camino, algunas veces, a contracorriente. Abstract: Despite the somewhat marginalization of science fiction in Cuba, the genre could not avoid the cultural influence that the island experienced when it adopted Soviet cannons. From the USSR and the Communist allies…