Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Movements and the Politics of Intangible Heritage

博士论文研究：社会运动与非物质遗产政治

• 批准号: 1523973
• 负责人: Vincent Crapanzano
• 金额: $ 1.26万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-15 至 2017-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1523973&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Social; Movements

Throughout the world, communities suffering from socioeconomic inequalities and discrimination join social movements to voice their concerns. Recently, social scientists have observed a new phenomenon: these social movements are deploying the symbolic power of specific cultural practices for their organizing goals while, at the same time, the governments against which they are organizing are seeking recognition from UNESCO for the same practices as Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). This convergence of political strategizing and nation building from above and social mobilization from below raises new questions about the role of culture in human society and the nature of contemporary political systems.City University of New York doctoral student Laura B. Carter, supervised by Dr. Vincent B. Crapanzano, will undertake research on these questions. She has chosen to conduct the research in France and in the French overseas territory of Guadeloupe, where a recent UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage designation provides an apt site for investigating both ends of this process. In Guadeloupe, she will collect data through participant observation, interviews, and oral histories in two separate regions, in order to document and analyze how practitioners and cultural stewards create, maintain, and vary the heritage tradition. In France (with non-NSF funding support), she will investigate changes in France's cultural policies and how they produced the Intangible Cultural Heritage nomination. Findings from this research will further social scientific understanding of the workings of social movements, the multiple meanings of heritage projects, and the changing nature of political forms in the contemporary world.

在全世界，遭受社会经济不平等和歧视的社区加入了社会运动，以表达他们的关注。最近，社会科学家观察到了一种新现象：这些社会运动正在为组织目标部署特定文化实践的象征力量无形文化遗产（ICH）。政治战略化和国家从上面建立的国家的融合以及从下面的社会动员提出了有关文化在人类社会和当代政治体系本质的新问题。纽约大学博士生劳拉·卡特（Laura B. Vincent B. Crapanzano将对这些问题进行研究。她选择在法国和法国海外领土上进行研究，瓜德罗普岛最近的一家联合国教科文组织无形的文化遗产指定为研究这一过程的两端提供了一个恰当的地点。 在瓜德罗普（Guadeloupe），她将通过参与者观察，访谈和口述历史收集数据，以记录和分析从业者和文化管家如何创造，维护和改变遗产传统。在法国（在非NSF资金支持的情况下），她将调查法国文化政策的变化，以及他们如何制作无形的文化遗产提名。这项研究的结果将进一步对社会运动的运作，遗产项目的多种含义以及政治形式在当代世界中的不断变化。