The Future of Cultural Heritage

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The Future of Cultural Heritage

Yaşar Tonta

Hace&epe University

Department of Informa5on Management Ankara, Turkey

yunus.hace&epe.edu.tr/~tonta/tonta.html yasartonta@gmail.com

@yasartonta

1st Interna5onal Conference DIM 2015, Valle&a, Malta

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(Balta, 2014, p. 196)

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What is Cultural Heritage?

“the legacy of physical ar5facts and intangible

a&ributes of a group or society that are inherited from past genera5ons, maintained in the present and bestowed for the beneﬁt of future

genera5ons”

•  Monuments

•  Group of structures

•  Sites

Source: h&p://whc.unesco.org/en/conven5ontext/

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Why is Cultural Heritage Neglected?

•  Deﬁni5on of “ci5zenship” of na5on-‐states

•  New na5onalism

•  Inten5onal collec5ve amnesia or denial contributes to na5on-‐

building eﬀorts . . .

(Van der Auwera, 2012)

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Although we are Rums, we don’t know Greek and we speak Turkish

We don’t write and we don’t read Turkish, and we don’t speak Greek either.

We are a mixture. Our alphabet is Greek and we speak Turkish

(Balta, 2012, p. 117)

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(Balta, 2012, p. 76, 78)

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It was mandatory to speak Greek during local elec5on campaigns to address

newly migrated Muslim popula5on acer the

popula5on exchange in 1923-‐1924

(Belli, 2004, p. 29)

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Birth in one place, growing old in another place.

And feeling a stranger in two places.

Ayşe Lahur Kırtunç

Twice a Stranger

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Destruc5on of cultural works, places of worship, and memory ins5tu5ons of libraries, archives and museums in wars and armed conﬂicts is a “war crime”. (1949 Geneva Conven5on, Ar5cle 53)

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“the Balkan Alzheimer’s disease”

Photo: Y. Tonta, CC-‐BY

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The Neglected Culture

Whose culture is it?

Why are we “selec5ve” about our cultural heritage?

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Gene5c Legacy of Anatolia

Less than 9% of the genes (Y-‐

chromosome) of Turkish people

inherited from the Turkic speaking people of Central Asia. . .

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States / civiliza5ons that existed in Anatolia

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1.07-‐2.26

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Preserva<on of cultural

heritage and game theory

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The payoﬀ matrix

The game tree

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Would this game scenario work in real life?

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Is it possible to preserve cultural heritage

collabora<vely?

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“rights rela<ng to cultural heritage are inherent in the right to par<cipate in cultural life”.

Universal Declara5on of Human Rights , Ar5cle 27

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Homo culturalis

(Güvenç, 1995, p. 196)

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