Robert J Shepherd
Biographic Data
| ID | 1302271 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert J Shepherd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert J |
| FAMILY NAME | Shepherd |
| SIGNATURE | SHEPHERD R J |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Washington University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Unesco's Tangled Web of Preservation
In the past two decades the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has broadened its focus on heritage from tangible sites to intangible cultural practices. It has also, according to supporters, advocated for the inclusion of local residents at heritage sites in management plans, emphasised the need to promote and protect human rights, and sought to balance preservation and conservation with what it terms "soci…
Faith in Heritage
Using the example of China’s Wutai Shan—recently designated both a UNESCO World Heritage site and a national park—Robert J. Shepherd analyzes Chinese applications of western notions of heritage management within a non-western framework. What does the concept of world heritage mean for a site practically unheard of outside of China, visited almost exclusively by Buddhist religious pilgrims? What does heritage preservation mean for a site whose int…
Why Heidegger did not travel
Nature, Culture, and Civilization
Heritage Management, Tourism, and Governance in China
Historicity, fieldwork, and the allure of the post-modern
Perpetual Unease or Being at Ease? \-\- Derrida, Daoism, and the 'Metaphysics of Presence'
Interesting work has been done on the striking similarities between the key arguments of the late Jacques Derrida and Daoism. While named otherwise, such Derridean signposts as the metaphysics of presence, the duality of language, and logocentrism are found in Daoist views of the relationship between reality, speech, writing, and knowledge. However, where the limits of language lead Derrida is different from where they take the authors of the Zhu…
Age of the law's end
This article examines the rise and fall of the Falun Gong movement in China and its subsequent rebirth abroad. To make sense of Falun Gong requires situating the movement within the social context of post-Maoist China and its appearance at a time when the space of everyday life was, and continues to be, radically transformed by market forces in the name of, paradoxically, ‘scientific Marxism’. After examining the central role a reified view of sc…
Is Taiwan Chinese
Melissa J. Brown, Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities. University of California Press, 2004, 349 pp. Melissa Brown offers a timely analysis of an issue of central importance in the debate over the relationship between China and Taiwan—namely, the question of a uniquely "Taiwanese" identity. As Brown notes, some scholars, politicians, and nationalists in Taiwan have argued for such an identity mark…
Why Heidegger did not travel
Historicity, fieldwork, and the allure of the post-modern
Unesco's Tangled Web of Preservation
In the past two decades the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has broadened its focus on heritage from tangible sites to intangible cultural practices. It has also, according to supporters, advocated for the inclusion of local residents at heritage sites in management plans, emphasised the need to promote and protect human rights, and sought to balance preservation and conservation with what it terms "soci…
Is Taiwan Chinese
Melissa J. Brown, Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities. University of California Press, 2004, 349 pp. Melissa Brown offers a timely analysis of an issue of central importance in the debate over the relationship between China and Taiwan—namely, the question of a uniquely "Taiwanese" identity. As Brown notes, some scholars, politicians, and nationalists in Taiwan have argued for such an identity mark…
Is Taiwan Chinese
Melissa J. Brown, Is Taiwan Chinese? The Impact of Culture, Power, and Migration on Changing Identities. University of California Press, 2004, 349 pp. Melissa Brown offers a timely analysis of an issue of central importance in the debate over the relationship between China and Taiwan—namely, the question of a uniquely "Taiwanese" identity. As Brown notes, some scholars, politicians, and nationalists in Taiwan have argued for such an identity mark…
Age of the law's end
This article examines the rise and fall of the Falun Gong movement in China and its subsequent rebirth abroad. To make sense of Falun Gong requires situating the movement within the social context of post-Maoist China and its appearance at a time when the space of everyday life was, and continues to be, radically transformed by market forces in the name of, paradoxically, ‘scientific Marxism’. After examining the central role a reified view of sc…
Perpetual Unease or Being at Ease? \-\- Derrida, Daoism, and the 'Metaphysics of Presence'
Interesting work has been done on the striking similarities between the key arguments of the late Jacques Derrida and Daoism. While named otherwise, such Derridean signposts as the metaphysics of presence, the duality of language, and logocentrism are found in Daoist views of the relationship between reality, speech, writing, and knowledge. However, where the limits of language lead Derrida is different from where they take the authors of the Zhu…
Historicity, fieldwork, and the allure of the post-modern
Heritage Management, Tourism, and Governance in China
Nature, Culture, and Civilization
Why Heidegger did not travel
Faith in Heritage
Using the example of China’s Wutai Shan—recently designated both a UNESCO World Heritage site and a national park—Robert J. Shepherd analyzes Chinese applications of western notions of heritage management within a non-western framework. What does the concept of world heritage mean for a site practically unheard of outside of China, visited almost exclusively by Buddhist religious pilgrims? What does heritage preservation mean for a site whose int…
Unesco's Tangled Web of Preservation
In the past two decades the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has broadened its focus on heritage from tangible sites to intangible cultural practices. It has also, according to supporters, advocated for the inclusion of local residents at heritage sites in management plans, emphasised the need to promote and protect human rights, and sought to balance preservation and conservation with what it terms "soci…
Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · China (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works)