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Réf.
42842
Type
conference item
Titre
Heritage as resilience: the role of minority communities in post-war Sri Lanka
Langues
English
Auteurs
Melathi Saldin, Ezra
Lieu de publication
Charenton-le-Pont
Pays de publication
France
Maison d'édition
ICOMOS
Date
2018
Titre de conférence
ICOMOS 19th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium "Heritage and Democracy"
Lieu de conférence
New Delhi, India
Date de conférence
13-14th December 2017
Mots-clés
minorities / Islamic cultures / cultural heritage / conflicts / conflict resolution / recovery / reconciliation / identity / resilience / economic aspects / social aspects / public awareness / education / ethnology / post-war situation / religions
Pays mentionnés
Sri Lanka
Résumé en anglais
The surge in conflicts on a global scale has resulted in protection and reconstruction of heritage emerging asan important but highly challenging concept in the 21st century. Post-war nations such as Sri Lanka, therefore, are at a critical juncture both in terms of post-conflict recovery and reconciliation. As a country emerging from civil war,heritage constitutes a vital aspect of the island’s national identity as well as its emotional, political, and economic landscape.Sri Lanka’s post-war period however, has witnessed an escalation in violence against other ethno-religious minorities,
particularly the island’s Muslim community, with heritage-centred contestations questioning their legitimacy, belongingand citizenship. These developments are particularly significant as the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC)2 identified heritage contestation between different ethnic groups as an obstacle to the path of reconciliation.
To date, much of the popular and scholarly debates on the politics of Sri Lankan heritage have dealt with the sociopoliticalentanglements of heritage pertain ing to the majority ethnic group the Sinhalese and its largest minority, theTamils, rendering the heritage of other ethno-religious minorities less visible within mainstream heritage narratives.
Much of these scholarly debates also focus on these issues through lenses of dissonance, destruction, and disputes. Aframework of heritage/ cultural resilience opens up productive avenues from which to explore these complex entanglements. Within wider arguments of democratizing heritage in a post-war context, this paper aims to explore thesignificance heritage or cultural resilience of minority ethno-religious communities, paying close attention to how an ethnically diverse religious minority such as the Sri Lankan Muslims utilise heritage as a means for building resilienceand communal wellbeing within the process of post-war reconciliation.
particularly the island’s Muslim community, with heritage-centred contestations questioning their legitimacy, belongingand citizenship. These developments are particularly significant as the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission (LLRC)2 identified heritage contestation between different ethnic groups as an obstacle to the path of reconciliation.
To date, much of the popular and scholarly debates on the politics of Sri Lankan heritage have dealt with the sociopoliticalentanglements of heritage pertain ing to the majority ethnic group the Sinhalese and its largest minority, theTamils, rendering the heritage of other ethno-religious minorities less visible within mainstream heritage narratives.
Much of these scholarly debates also focus on these issues through lenses of dissonance, destruction, and disputes. Aframework of heritage/ cultural resilience opens up productive avenues from which to explore these complex entanglements. Within wider arguments of democratizing heritage in a post-war context, this paper aims to explore thesignificance heritage or cultural resilience of minority ethno-religious communities, paying close attention to how an ethnically diverse religious minority such as the Sri Lankan Muslims utilise heritage as a means for building resilienceand communal wellbeing within the process of post-war reconciliation.
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