GCRF Resilient Silk Route Cultural Heritage Network

GCRF 坚韧丝绸之路文化遗产网络

• 批准号: EP/T003790/1
• 负责人: Elmira Köchümkulova
• 金额: $ 19.09万
• 依托单位: University of Central Asia
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2019 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FT003790%2F1
• 关键词: GCRF; Resilient; Silk; Route; Cultural

The proposed network speaks to the cities and sustainable infrastructure theme, especially conservation and cultural heritage with the role (mountain) cities and towns play as constellations of knowledge and culture. It will deliver under SDG11 for inclusive, safe and resilient cities on sub-themes 11.3 on inclusive planning and 11.4 on cultural heritage. New transport connectivity driven by China One Belt One Road (OBOR) initiative offers new hopes and opportunities to communities in mountainous regions of Central Asia. However, increased connectivity also carries the potential to introduce significant new societal challenges in regard to benefits and their (possibly unequal) distribution, as well as challenges for socio-cultural resilience and the mobilisation and protection of intangible and tangible local cultural heritages. Rapid changes pose threats to the conservation of traditional practices but also opportunities to develop them as resources (such as craft production and tourism sites) and also mobilising and developing them further as heritage assets. All too often, rapid and externally driven development has commodified local cultures, to be packaged for sale - with both control and most economic benefits going to outside developers. This is especially true of mountain, borderland communities whose interests are very often subordinated to state imperatives for territorial control and security. The proposed GCRF network will address such needs and help to preserve the local cultural heritages of formerly isolated mountain towns and, furthermore, keep these cultural heritages alive - as integral aspects of modern societies with clearly articulated pathways of cultural continuity. The network will aim specifically to develop capacities for interventions that focus on empowering (formerly) remote mountain towns and cities, enabling them to maintain greater control over their own cultures, development, and economic benefits.The network takes this forward in the context of huge infrastructural development in terms of planned transit corridors to ask how this hard infrastructural development intersects with built heritage and the soft infrastructure of intangible heritages and culture. The current level of infrastructural planning largely has been driven at national levels by strategic regional visions, and most often has ignored or inadequately incorporated the needs and wishes of local communities. The resilience of local cultures to the 'shock' of the largescale development and increased connectivity currently affecting and rapidly changing the target region needs enhancing. Current ways of life and socio-cultural practices may be profoundly disrupted by all these changes, even as they bring new opportunities. Current infrastructural developments are introducing many, new economic imperatives, new contacts and new pressures and new demands on fragile socio-ecosystems systems - including encounters with tourists and traders alike, with all the new possibilities to sell products more widely. Immediate gains may be possible, for example through appropriate tourism and craft production opportunities, but these must be situated in the context of socio-cultural viability and global markets for products.

拟议的网络涉及城市和可持续基础设施主题，特别是保护和文化遗产，以及（山地）城镇作为知识和文化星座的作用。它将根据可持续发展目标 11 建设包容性、安全和有复原力的城市，实现关于包容性规划的子主题 11.3 和关于文化遗产的子主题 11.4。中国“一带一路”倡议推动的新型交通互联互通为中亚山区社区带来了新的希望和机遇。然而，连通性的增强也有可能在利益及其（可能不平等）分配方面带来重大的新社会挑战，以及对社会文化复原力以及动员和保护当地非物质和有形文化遗产的挑战。快速的变化对传统习俗的保护构成了威胁，但也带来了将其开发为资源（例如手工艺生产和旅游景点）以及进一步动员和开发它们作为遗产资产的机会。很多时候，外部驱动的快速发展已经将当地文化商品化，并打包出售——控制权和大部分经济利益都落入了外部开发商手中。对于山区、边境社区来说尤其如此，他们的利益往往服从于国家对领土控制和安全的要求。拟议的 GCRF 网络将满足此类需求，并帮助保护以前偏僻山区城镇的当地文化遗产，此外，使这些文化遗产保持活力 - 作为现代社会的一个组成部分，具有明确的文化连续性路径。该网络的具体目标是发展干预能力，重点是为（以前的）偏远山区城镇和城市赋权，使他们能够更好地控制自己的文化、发展和经济利益。该网络在巨大的背景下推动了这一进程。规划的交通走廊方面的基础设施发展，以询问这种硬基础设施发展如何与建筑遗产以及非物质遗产和文化的软基础设施相交叉。目前的基础设施规划水平在很大程度上是由国家层面的战略区域愿景驱动的，并且常常忽视或没有充分考虑当地社区的需求和愿望。当地文化对目前影响和迅速改变目标地区的大规模发展和互联互通增强所带来的“冲击”的恢复力需要增强。当前的生活方式和社会文化实践可能会受到所有这些变化的深刻破坏，尽管它们带来了新的机遇。当前的基础设施发展正在给脆弱的社会生态系统带来许多新的经济需求、新的联系、新的压力和新的需求——包括与游客和贸易商等的接触，以及更广泛地销售产品的所有新可能性。立竿见影的收益是可能的，例如通过适当的旅游业和手工艺生产机会，但这些必须置于社会文化活力和全球产品市场的背景下。