Designing Unesco Culture: Internationalism and the Global Imagination

Jamieson, Kirstie

Abstract

Amidst the rise of sensory rather than creative discourses that seek to categorise and re-evaluate cultural encounters with and within the city, it is timely to explore how frameworks produce ideals of authenticity, and how these ideals are bound up with historically idealized forms of sociability, durational intensity and ephemeral subjectivities. Since the mid-twentieth century UNESCO discourses have performatively instituted categories and content of culture: legitimising and funding institutionalized practices of codification and naming. This paper charts how, through its various regimes and networks of distinction, UNESCO has conspicuously shaped the identity, experience and landscape of culturally aspirational cities across the world.

Citation

Jamieson, K. (2010, June). Designing Unesco Culture: Internationalism and the Global Imagination. Paper presented at 8th Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference (Association of Cultural Studies), Hong Kong

• Presentation Conference Type: Conference Paper (unpublished)
• Conference Name: 8th Crossroads in Cultural Studies Conference (Association of Cultural Studies)
• Start Date: Jun 17, 2010
• End Date: Jun 21, 2010
• Deposit Date: Jul 19, 2023