Doctoral Dissertation Research: Social Movements and the Politics of Intangible Heritage

博士论文研究：社会运动与非物质遗产政治

• 批准号: 1523973
• 负责人: Vincent Crapanzano
• 金额: $ 1.26万
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-15 至 2017-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1523973&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Social; Movements

Throughout the world, communities suffering from socioeconomic inequalities and discrimination join social movements to voice their concerns. Recently, social scientists have observed a new phenomenon: these social movements are deploying the symbolic power of specific cultural practices for their organizing goals while, at the same time, the governments against which they are organizing are seeking recognition from UNESCO for the same practices as Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). This convergence of political strategizing and nation building from above and social mobilization from below raises new questions about the role of culture in human society and the nature of contemporary political systems.City University of New York doctoral student Laura B. Carter, supervised by Dr. Vincent B. Crapanzano, will undertake research on these questions. She has chosen to conduct the research in France and in the French overseas territory of Guadeloupe, where a recent UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage designation provides an apt site for investigating both ends of this process. In Guadeloupe, she will collect data through participant observation, interviews, and oral histories in two separate regions, in order to document and analyze how practitioners and cultural stewards create, maintain, and vary the heritage tradition. In France (with non-NSF funding support), she will investigate changes in France's cultural policies and how they produced the Intangible Cultural Heritage nomination. Findings from this research will further social scientific understanding of the workings of social movements, the multiple meanings of heritage projects, and the changing nature of political forms in the contemporary world.

在世界各地，遭受社会经济不平等和歧视的社区加入社会运动，表达他们的关切。最近，社会科学家观察到一个新现象：这些社会运动正在利用特定文化习俗的象征力量来实现其组织目标，而与此同时，他们组织起来反对的政府正在寻求联合国教科文组织承认与非物质文化遗产（ICH）相同的做法。这种自上而下的政治战略和国家建设与自下而上的社会动员的融合，对文化在人类社会中的作用和当代政治制度的本质提出了新的问题。纽约城市大学博士生劳拉B。卡特，由文森特B博士监督。Crapanzano将对这些问题进行研究。她选择在法国和法国海外领土瓜德罗普进行研究，那里最近被联合国教科文组织指定为非物质文化遗产，为研究这一过程的两端提供了一个合适的地点。 在瓜德罗普，她将通过参与者观察，访谈和口述历史在两个不同的地区收集数据，以记录和分析从业者和文化管家如何创建，维护和改变遗产传统。在法国（非NSF资助），她将调查法国文化政策的变化以及他们如何产生非物质文化遗产提名。这项研究的结果将进一步社会科学的理解社会运动的运作，遗产项目的多重意义，以及当代世界政治形式的变化性质。