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This panel, part of the conference SIEF2023 (Société Internationale d´Ethnologie et de Folklore), is co-convened by Dr. Monica Mottin and Dr. Barbara Curda (UCA (université Clermont Auvergne), France, IFP (Institut Français de Pondichéry), India). The panel asks, “In times of crisis, documenting performance-based cultural heritage is crucial to foster individuals’ and communities’ sense of belonging and resilience. How is heritage performance documentation culturally and socially situated? For whom do we document and how?”
Two members of the HaP research team, Monica Mottin and Stefanie Lotter, co-convened a panel at the EASA (European Association of Social Anthropologists) Belfast 2022 Conference. Their panel, titled Alter-heritage: Imagining South Asian heritage from the margins, aimed to explore forms of erasure of subaltern heritage and whether/how solidarities and commoning may facilitate the repositioning of heritage to question dominant historiography. The panel saw six papers presented from Katja Mueller, Katja Mielke and Helena Cermeño, Cameron Warner, Sasi Kumar, Shobhit Shakya, Ulrik Hoj Johnson. Dr. Lotter and Dr. Mottin now plan on producing an edited special journal issue with the topic of alterity in focus.
Multiple researchers on the Heritage as Placemaking team co-organized a panel at the Annual Kathmandu Conference on Nepal and the Himalaya (27–29 July 2022). The panel took into account myriad and multifarious functions, uses, and values of heritage that are put to work for the purposes of governance, self-governance, sense of place, community as well as urban planning. These politics and practices are relationally co-constituted in the production of place, space and subjectivities with regressive and progressive possibilities. To this end, the papers in this proposed panel together document and examine the role of heritage in forming cleavages of divisiveness and difference on the one hand, and the possibilities for solidarity and commoning, on the other.
