Sengupta, Tania;
(2022)
'Kolkata's Durgapuja Festival and Thinking Through UNESCO's 'Intangible Heritage' in Special Issue 'Space and Heritage: On the Generativity of Environing Worlds'.
Future Anterior
, 19
(2)
pp. 104-109.
10.1353/fta.2022.a940806.
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Abstract
This roundtable position paper (presented at Dept. of Architecture, University of Cambridge, Nov 2022) critically reflects on the recent (Dec 2021) UNESCO inscription of Kolkata's (India) annual Durgapuja Festival in its Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, in order to raise a larger critique of UNESCO's articulation of the category of 'intangible heritage' per se. Briefly unpacking some of the on-ground material processes and temporalities involved in the festival on the one hand, and analysing the broad patterns of intangible heritage lists since their inception, the paper argues that the conceptual formulation of intangible heritage builds on deeply problematic a colonial trope - of marking difference in relation to non-western cultures and practices.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | 'Kolkata's Durgapuja Festival and Thinking Through UNESCO's 'Intangible Heritage' in Special Issue 'Space and Heritage: On the Generativity of Environing Worlds' |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1353/fta.2022.a940806 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1353/fta.2022.a940806 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | UNESCO Intangible heritage, Kolkata's Durgapuja, Ephemeral architecture and urbanism |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10200122 |
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