In this presentation, Mike Robinson considers the changing ways in which communities talk about heritage and the differences between authorised discourses of heritage production, maintenance and management and the daily discourses of its consumption, experience and co-creation and the processes of translation, appropriation and adaptation that go on. As we negotiate superdiverse heritages, ever more complex and contested, the notion of an Authorised Heritage Discourse is becoming ever more fragmented and disconnected. Talking about heritage is an everyday act, blended with everyday talk. For the heritage sector and for the heritage scholar, listening to these daily conversations beyond the focused and precise confines of official heritage sites and how new vocabularies of identity, memory and place are exercised in ordinary spaces and times, is an important and revealing task. Through a more inductive process of listening to, and engaging with, the ordinary chat of superdiverse communities, we can begin to understand the shifting meanings of heritage and begin to re-think its wider values in policy and practical terms.
Mike Robinson is Professor of Cultural Heritage, working to develop NTU’s international, cross-disciplinary research portfolio in the cultural heritage field. With over 30 years’ experience of working at the interface between heritage, tourism and culture, Mike’s focus is upon research that makes a difference to communities and businesses across the world. Working across disciplinary boundaries to generate new thinking, he seeks to translate research and examples of best practice to share with the heritage and tourism sectors. He has advised governments, transnational and state organisations, museums and heritage attractions, NGOs and community groups. He has worked on heritage and tourism related projects in over 40 countries.
9 February 2022 14:00 - 15:00 via Teams
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