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'Kolkata's Durgapuja Festival and Thinking Through UNESCO's 'Intangible Heritage' in Special Issue 'Space and Heritage: On the Generativity of Environing Worlds'
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.
'Kolkata's Durgapuja Festival and Thinking Through UNESCO's 'Intangible Heritage' in Special Issue 'Space and Heritage: On the Generativity of Environing Worlds'
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.
'Kolkata's Durgapuja Festival and Thinking Through UNESCO's 'Intangible Heritage' in Special Issue 'Space and Heritage: On the Generativity of Environing Worlds'
Sengupta, Tania (author)
2022-12-01
Future Anterior , 19 (2) pp. 104-109. (2022)
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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