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[Commlist] CFP: Mediating Cultural Heritage: Narrative Strategies and Tactics

Tue Feb 27 09:59:46 GMT 2024




A reminder of the call for papers for '*Mediating Cultural Heritage: Narrative Strategies and Tactics*' which *closes 29^th  February.*


Mediating Cultural Heritage: Narrative Strategies and Tactics


This conference stream is concerned with the role of both media and narrative in the way that cultural heritage is defined, represented, contested and promoted. Taking de Certeau’s notion of /strategies /and /tactics /as a starting point, the aim is to consider the different ways that individuals, collectives and institutions employ and engage with particular media, in order to produce, inhabit, rework and challenge narratives of and about places, objects and practices of cultural significance.


In contemporary cultures and in common with other sectors, cultural heritage institutions typically consider the production of narratives to be a core activity. This relates both to their interpretation strategies and to how they construct their own institutional narrative. They may employ many types of media and work with a variety of creative practitioners to construct and share these narratives with audiences.


Meanwhile, many forms of cultural heritage are maintained outside hegemonic cultural institutions, by a range of individuals, groups and organisations, who also employ different creative methods and media to produce narratives that may, explicitly or implicitly, question, refute or defy official narratives and make visible what such narratives ignore.


Largely in response to such counter-hegemonic practices, institutional discourses of cultural heritage have started to include a wider scope of tangible and intangible culture in designations of cultural heritage, from which preservation and promotion strategies proceed. Moreover, cultural heritage institutions have begun to produce different narratives about long established sites, artefacts and practices of cultural heritage, with the aim of acknowledging problematic histories and/or marginalised experiences. Such changes are not always easily accommodated within existing norms of cultural heritage conservation and interpretation, however, creating tension both within cultural heritage institutions and in their relations with other actors, including governmental bodies and different community sectors.


If, as in de Certeau’s formulation, hegemonic institutions serve to circumscribe the ‘proper place’ of cultural heritage, then we might see such attempts to change and multiply the narratives they produce as strategies to redraw the boundaries of the institution. What opportunities and limits for tactical ‘insinuations’ might this process of redrawing offer? Does this destabilising of the boundaries constitute a temporary or a permanent process?


When considering cultural heritage narratives produced outside such institutions, how might we consider them to operate as tactics of creative resistance? Might we also see them as attempts to circumscribe a rival ‘proper place’?


In what ways do contemporary cultural heritage narrative strategies actively seek to encourage/co-opt tactical transformations by cultural heritage ‘consumers’ and what are the implications of this?


This stream invites presentations from both practitioners and theorists, which may take the form of artworks and practice-based research, as well as more traditional presentations. Areas/questions to explore might include, but are not limited to:


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    Creative media as strategy/tactic in cultural heritage narratives

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    Artistic practices and practitioners in cultural heritage

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    The role of the ‘consumer’ in cultural heritage narratives

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    Contested and multiple narratives and cultural heritage

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    Cultural heritage narratives as a way of imagining potential futures

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    The limits of narrative as a way to engage with cultural heritage

This stream is running as part of the *London Conference in Critical Thought, at the University of Greenwich, London 28 & 29^th  June, 2024*. Abstracts should be submitted by *29^th  February* as Word documents, max 250 words to *(londoncritical /at/ gmail.com). Please indicate the stream title 'Mediating Cultural Heritage: Narrative Strategies and Tactics' in the subject line*.

Full details of the conference and all the subject streams running in the conference can be found here https://www.londoncritical.co.uk <https://www.londoncritical.co.uk>


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