The failed struggle for heritage ownership in an Indian village

The residents of Hampi village, located within a UNESCO World Heritage site in southern India, benefited from local material heritage by developing the informal tourism sector. However, since 2011 they have been undergoing forced displacement, and their dwellings and small businesses have been demolished. Their entrepreneurial skills and economic self-sufficiency – which can be interpreted as a grassroots form of pro-poor tourism – have not been acknowledged by authorities and experts. The otherwise emancipating counter-narratives – such as sustainability, intangible heritage, or cultural rights – usually employed by native peoples in the Global South in their struggles for recognition, including the right to heritage ownership, in the case of Hampi failed. As an entrepreneurial community that had emerged from mobility, Hampi villagers did not fit the heritage framework shaped by the categories of ‘culture’ and ‘nativeness’. The article offers insights into a failed struggle for heritage ownership and the right to benefit from heritage-based tourism through critically analysing the sedentarist and culturalist notion of heritage that excludes certain communities instead of emancipating them

Archaeology · Business · Cultural heritage · Ethnology · Geography · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies

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