O’Brien-Kop, K., Ren, X. orcid.org/0000-0002-6086-616X and Rippa, A. (Accepted: 2024) Cultural mobilities and cultural heritage: concepts for an Asia-centric approach. Journal of the British Academy, 12. ISSN 2052-7217 (In Press)
Abstract
This article sets out an original and exploratory framework for examining emerging concepts of cultural mobilities and heritage with a key focus on the infrastructure and spatialities of cultural mobilities in, of, and through Asia – specifically China. To date, the scholarly analysis of mobilities has been dominated by the social sciences in relation to central themes of migration, national borders, crisis and transnational flows of objects and people. This paper seeks to expand the focus in mobilities discourses to humanities, not only to research how infrastructures and spatialities are shaped by culture and heritage but to also to analyse cultural mobility through infrastructure and spatialities. We set out epistemic considerations for approaching cultural mobilities through an interdisciplinary lens that seeks to address heritage studies of diverse kinds, from environmental to religious to architectural. By centering Asian epistemes, the paper also challenges recognition and interpretation biases in the humanities and social sciences that continue to privilege Eurocentric hegemonies. Together, the co-authors examine: how Asian cultures operate through material and non-material infrastructures that defy singular location in geo-political crossings and networks; how culture is mobilised in different ways through infrastructure; the entanglement of cultural heritage with political infrastructure and living practice as well as embedded intangible values.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2024 The Author(s). | ||||
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield | ||||
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Architecture (Sheffield) | ||||
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Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield | ||||
Date Deposited: | 05 Apr 2024 15:04 | ||||
Last Modified: | 05 Apr 2024 15:04 | ||||
Status: | In Press | ||||
Publisher: | British Academy | ||||
Refereed: | Yes |