Chiara Bortolotto, Author at Allegra Lab

Author: Chiara Bortolotto

Chiara Bortolotto is the principal investigator of the project “UNESCO frictions: Heritage-making across global governance” at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris). Her research focuses on global heritage governance and is based on multiscale and multipositioned ethnography. She has edited Le patrimoine culturel immatériel: enjeux d'une nouvelle catégorie (Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris, 2011) and published several articles on UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage policies.

Virtual roundtable: “Collaborative dilemmas” in the age of uncertainty

June, 2017 / By Chiara Bortolotto

“Collaborative dilemmas” was the title of a workshop held last April at EHESS in Paris under the framework of “UNESCO […]

Roundtable: Answers by Chiara Bortolotto

June, 2017 / By Chiara Bortolotto

For more than ten years I have been exploring UNESCO policies in the field of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). My

Threads UNESCO Frictions

Workshop: Collaborative dilemmas

September, 2016 / By Chiara Bortolotto

Policymaking and implementation across state institutions, international organisations and transnational networks of civil-society organisations are expanding fields of anthropological research.

Threads UNESCO Frictions

UNESCO frictions: Heritage-making across global governance

September, 2016 / By Chiara Bortolotto

Destroyed under global media coverage, exalted as identity symbol, traded and purchased, heritage is taking on a growing and controversial