Intangible Heritage and the Complexities of Inequality in the Politics of Belonging
摘要
This article elaborates on marked silences and inadequate affordances of belonging for minorities in the UNESCO-related living heritage framework. How is the ICH Convention implementation addressing possibilities for reduction of inequalities? What role does academic research play in generating a representation of minorities in the living heritage configuration? Our discursive perspective on the academic heritage scholarship in policy-making contexts, and analysis of the politics of belonging or marked representational silences draws on ethnographic examples mostly from Estonia—an East European setting where identity construction and claims reflect the twentieth century changes in the socio-political history and positions.