As políticas patrimoniais da UNESCO na geopolítica de colonialidades globais e a emergência de novos sentidos de interculturalidade do património na Andaluzia

Abstract

The objective of the present work is to analyze the international policies of the historical-cultural heritage from the perspective of the coloniality of power/ knowledge. This involves confronting the close links between discourses and representations of diversity in the nation-state and the identification and management of global and local heritage. The emergence of the intangible heritage at the local level and the elaboration of the intangible heritage of humanity list led us to rethink the debate of materiality vs. immateriality that dominates the representations of ‘East’ and ‘West’; as a manifestation of redefinition of the geopolitical notions of centre and periphery, which were formulated in terms of Eurocentrism and Asiacentrism. Consequently, it is questioned if we are truly witnessing a change in traditional heritage policies, or simply a struggle between opposed forms of colonialities. In contrast with the institutional dynamics, the interculturality discourses of the cultural heritage elaborated by local social movements demonstrate the emergence of new constructions based on the experience of cultural diversity and multiculturality; since the recognition of the symbolic and identitary to the memory of historical heritage which have been degraded by colonial modernity of Andalusia.