Heritage on the Ground

A Thirdspace Reading of Calle Crisologo, Vigan City, Philippines

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ID18965356
AuthorsMark Louie Tabunan (0000-0002-4145-9737, University of the Philippines Baguio, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume15
Issue2
Pages179-198
Publication date2022-05-04
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueHeritage & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2159-032X • E-ISSN: 2159-0338
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/2159032x.2022.2126233
OpenAlexW4304775962
LanguageEN
References cited43

Christoph Brumann and David Berliner, in their book World Heritage on the Ground: Ethnographic Perspectives (2016), ask what World Heritage (WH) does on the ground far away from the meeting halls of the WH Committee. This article explores the ways in which WH moves and breathes on the ground of Calle Crisologo, Vigan City in northern Philippines. Utilizing participant observation and key informant interviews and building on Edward Soja’s notion of Thirdspace, it aims to unpack differences of meanings with regard to the ways WH gets negotiated by locals. The themes of remembrances, counter-memory, impacts and meanings of WH, rootedness and counter practices, and postcoloniality problematize and enrich WH’s relationship with local histories, memories, societies, identities, and economies. Shown through the variegated accounts are the ways in which people’s engagement with the street turns it into a fecund and volatile, real and imagined lifeworld of experiences. Findings and lessons relate well to heritage’s meaning, value, and significance – such as, for instance, the ways that local people’s voices can be better valued for more sustainable and inclusive heritage, culture, and memory of Vigan City and elsewhere

Geography · Linguistics · Asian Culture and Media Studies · History · Philippine History and Culture · Philosophy · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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