scholarly journals Conserving the Past for Today: Politics of Georgian Government towards Cultural Heritage Protection in the context of Political Uncertainty

2019 ◽  
pp. 93-108
Author(s):  
Nikoloz Kavelashvili ◽  
Aldona Wiktorska-Święcka

Ochrona dziedzictwa kulturowego ma nie tylko konsekwencje społeczne, ale także polityczne i gospodarcze. Podczas gdy treść tożsamości narodowej i osobistej jest ściśle związana z odziedziczonym dziedzictwem kulturowym, dziedzictwo to, jeśli chodzi o kulturę materialną, wymaga wsparcia politycznego często poza środkami zainteresowanych krajów. Międzynarodowe wsparcie udzielane jest przez organizacje takie jak UNESCO z listą światowego dziedzictwa, która obejmuje światowe skarby kultury oraz pomniki przyrody. Politycznie dziedzictwo kulturowe może być zarówno spójne, jak i dzielące, gdy wykorzystywane jest do celów politycznych ukierunkowanych na polityczną hegemonię. Z ekonomicznego punktu widzenia koszt zachowania dziedzictwa kulturowego może być intratnym źródłem dochodów w wyniku globalnej promocji turystyki kulturalnej. Dzięki tym badaniom możemy dojść do wniosku, że państwo powinno ułatwić wzmocnienie pozycji społeczności poprzez zachowanie i rozwój dziedzictwa kulturowego – jego środowiska organicznego, ponieważ bez ochrony środowiska kulturowego i niewłaściwego wykorzystania oferowanych przez niego możliwości nie możemy osiągnąć tego prawa, tzn. możliwy, trwały rozwój społeczny i gospodarczy kraju.

Bosniaca ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (25) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Maša Miloradović

Na primeru nedavno uspostavljene saradnje između Narodne biblioteke Srbije i Zadužbine Milana Mladenovića; jugoslovenskog muzičara i pesnika poslednjih decenija 20. veka; pokazan je model udruživanja tradicionalne baštinske ustanove i privatne institucije u oblasti zaštite kulturne baštine. Posvećena je pažnja načinima na koje se memorijalizuju i muzealizuju ličnosti i pojave iz nedavne prošlosti iz domena “popularne” kulture. Ukazuje se na neophodnost aktivnije uloge tradicionalnih ustanova u “otkrivanju” baštine; proširivanju na netradicionalne oblike stvaralaštva.--------------------------------------------Place of the Popular Music in the System of Cultural Heritage Protection – The Example of Cooperation between National Library of Serbia and Milan Mladenović EndowmentThe Example of recently established cooperation between National Library of Serbia and Endowment of Milan Mladenović (Yugoslav poet and musician from the last decades of 20th century) shows a model of joining traditional heritage institution and a private endowment in the area of cultural heritage protection. Attention is paid to the ways of memorialisation and musealisation of personalities and phenomenons of the past in the domain of “popular” culture. The more active role of traditional institutions in “discovering” heritage is needed; as well as action towards coverage of wider range of non-traditional cultural creations.


2020 ◽  
pp. 187-192
Author(s):  
S.A. Popov

The article deals with the problem of collecting, preserving and researching the disappeared names of localities in the subjects of the Russian Federation, which for centuries have become an integral part of the historical and cultural heritage of the peoples of our country. The author believes that only a comprehensive analysis of the past oikonyms in nominational, lexical-semantic, historical-cultural, historical-ethnographic, local history aspects will restore the linguistic and cultural systems of different time periods in different microareals of the Russian Federation. The author comes to the conclusion that in order to preserve the historical memory of the disappeared names of geographical objects, local researchers need the support of regional state authorities and local self-government.


Author(s):  
Marie-Sophie de Clippele

AbstractCultural heritage can offer tangible and intangible traces of the past. A past that shapes cultural identity, but also a past from which one sometimes wishes to detach oneself and which nevertheless needs to be remembered, even commemorated. These themes of memory, history and oblivion are examined by the philosopher Paul Ricoeur in his work La mémoire, l’histoire, l’oubli (2000). Inspired by these ideas, this paper analyses how they are closely linked to cultural heritage. Heritage serves as a support for memory, even if it can be mishandled, which in turn can affect heritage policies. Memory and heritage can be abused as a result of wounds from the past or for reasons of ideological manipulation or because of a political will to force people to remember. Furthermore, heritage, as a vehicule of memory, contributes to historical knowledge, but can remain marked by a certain form of subjectivism during the heritage and conservation operation, for which heritage professionals (representatives of the public authority or other experts) are responsible. Yet, the responsibility for conserving cultural heritage also implies the need to avoid any loss of heritage, and to fight against oblivion. Nonetheless, this struggle cannot become totalitarian, nor can it deprive the community of a sometimes salutary oblivion to its own identity construction. These theoretical and philosophical concepts shall be examined in the light of legal discourse, and in particular in Belgian legislation regarding cultural heritage. It is clear that the shift from monument to heritage broadens the legal scope and consequently raises the question of who gets to decide what is considered heritage according to the law, and whether there is something such as a collective human right to cultural heritage. Nonetheless, this broadening of the legislation extends the State intervention into cultural heritage, which in turn entails certain risks, as will be analysed with Belgium’s colonial heritage.


2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Dzemila Sero ◽  
Isabelle Garachon ◽  
Erma Hermens ◽  
Robert Van Liere ◽  
Kees Joost Batenburg

Fingerprints play a central role in any field where person identification is required. In forensics and biometrics, three-dimensional fingerprint-based imaging technologies, and corresponding recognition methods, have been vastly investigated. In cultural heritage, preliminary studies provide evidence that the three-dimensional impressions left on objects from the past (ancient fingerprints) are of paramount relevance to understand the socio-cultural systems of former societies, to possibly identify a single producer of multiple potteries, and to authenticate the artist of a sculpture. These findings suggest that the study of ancient fingerprints can be further investigated and open new avenues of research. However, the potential for capturing and analyzing ancient fingerprints is still largely unexplored in the context of cultural heritage research. In fact, most of the existing studies have focused on plane fingerprint representations and commercial software for image processing. Our aim is to outline the opportunities and challenges of digital fingerprint recognition in answering a range of questions in cultural heritage research. Therefore, we summarize the fingerprint-based imaging technologies, reconstruction methods, and analyses used in biometrics that could be beneficial to the study of ancient fingerprints in cultural heritage. In addition, we analyze the works conducted on ancient fingerprints from potteries and ceramic/fired clay sculptures. We conclude with a discussion on the open challenges and future works that could initiate novel strategies for ancient fingerprint acquisition, digitization, and processing within the cultural heritage community.


2016 ◽  
Vol 91 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mauro F. La Russa ◽  
Natalia Rovella ◽  
Monica Alvarez de Buergo ◽  
Cristina M. Belfiore ◽  
Antonino Pezzino ◽  
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