CALL FOR PAPERS
SPECIAL ISSUE
“Heritage, Law and Discourse:
A Triadic Dimension in Protection, Regulation & Identity”
International Journal for the
Semiotics of Law
Guest Editors: Anne Wagner &
Cheng Le
The past four decades has witnessed
the remarkable extension of enthusiasm in cultural heritage or property from
the perspective of international laws, or international legal framework as the
multilevel legal instruments for safeguarding, protection and maintenance of
cultural heritage, property, or rights. In our project, the identification of
“Heritage” employs specific discourses, codes, transcending values, and images
that conceal assumption about members of a people comprising a people within a
nation. Heritage narrates constructions of belongings that become tethered to
negotiations for power and resistance over time and throughout a people’s
history leading to powerful discursive narratives. While such likeness may be
preserved, conserved or even perpetuated, the idea of “Heritage” may be
socially, politically, culturally, and historically contested to reveal
competing pasts, presents, and futures, esp. with innovation in arts leading to
new social norms and identities.
Besides, the visual decoding of heritage
is evocative and ideologically representative with meanings that prescribe a
story of Protection, Regulation and Identity, since these meanings are subject
to multiple interpretations and reinterpretations related to Rights, among the
integrity of heritage right and human rights, and the integrated framework of
right in rem and right in personae. Yet, through semiotic accumulation,
evolution and confrontation, there may be different interdisciplinary paths
leading to different truths, to tensions (contestation and/or negotiation), and
applications of significance. We should then investigate these transmitted
values, discourses over time and space.
We should therefore investigate
these transmitted values under various perspectives (amongst others but not
limited):
- How
to transmit Heritage and which values are being transmitted?
- How
are the narratives created?
- Is
there a social stratification in transmitting, preserving and conserving
Heritage?
- What
are the cognitive and symbolic aspects of Heritage through different temporal
parameters? Is there a shift in cultural and/or collective meaning from one
space to another?
- What
are the sources?
- What
is the relationship between law and “heritage” (tangible or intangible
elements) in visual representations?
- What
is the shared collective and/or cultural memory beyond this visual
representation?
- How
Heritage is connected to the preservation and conservation of a people’s
memory?
- How
Heritage is interpreted within legal settings or international legal framework
from temporality and spatiality?
- What
are the interactions between cultural heritage and human rights within the
diversity and tolerance within socio-legal contexts?
Considering the complexity and
diversity in the building of a common memory or discourse community through
tangible and intangible cultural heritage, we would suggest our contributors interrogate
the complex sign system of a particular country or region and their meanings
attentive to a complex configuration of historical, social and cultural
conditions that shift over time and space.
Keywords: Heritage, Sign System,
Law, Discourse Narratives, Conservation, Preservation.
Please send your proposal to Anne
WAGNER (valwagnerfr@yahoo.com) by
late April 2020.
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