Heritage Regimes and the State

Contributors
UNESCO Convention for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in Switzerland.
Ullrich Kockel is Professor Emeritus of Ethnology, University of Ulster, Professor
of Culture and Economy, Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, and Visiting
Professor of European Ethnology at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas. His
current research focuses on cultural resource development, place memory and
human ecology, especially in Germany, the Baltic region and the British Isles.
Kristin Kuutma is Professor of Cultural Research at the University of Tartu, Estonia.
Her research and teaching focus on cultural theory, cultural history and anthropology,
ethnographic studies and knowledge production, and critical studies of
cultural heritage and representation. She is the head of the UT program of the
Graduate School of Culture Studies and Arts.
Anaïs Leblon completed a PhD in anthropology at Aix-Marseille University focused
on the process of heritagization of Fulani pastoral institutions in Mali. She is
currently a postdoctoral fellow at Lahic (Laboratoire d’Anthropologie et d’Histoire
de l’Institution de la Culture) in Paris, within the framework of a French research
consortium: the “Labex CAP” (Créations, Arts et Patrimoines).
Gabriele Mentges is a Professor at the Institute of Art and Material Culture, at
the Technical University of Dortmund. Her current research interests include the
Uzbek textile culture as a cultural and economic resource.
Máiréad Nic Craith is Professor of European Culture and Heritage at Heriot
Watt University in Edinburgh. Her research interests include cultural translation,
cultural policy and Intangible Cultural Heritage in a European context.
Arnika Peselmann is a PhD candidate in the field of cultural anthropology within
the Research Group on Cultural Property at the University of Göttingen. Her research
interests include a comparative approach to the implementation of
UNESCO conventions (Czech Republic, Germany), civil society in post-socialist
states, and border studies.
Adelheid Pichler is currently working as a lecturer at the Department of Social
and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Vienna, Austria. Her research covers
memories of slavery in Afro-Cuban religions, education and adaptive capacity
to climate change and the comparative study of social vulnerability patterns to
hurricanes in Cuba and the Dominican Republic (within the IIASA – International
Institute for Applied System Analysis, Laxenburg–Vienna).
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