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Riina Haanpää

University of Turku, Finland
Participates in 1 Session
Biography Riina Haanpää, PhD University of Turku; Finland School for Cultural Production and Landscape Studies Cultural Heritage Studies Riina Haanpää is a university lecturer in cultural heritage studies at the University of Turku. In her doctoral thesis she has focused on cultural research, memory, oral history and especially the questions about intangible heritage. Now her studies are based on oral history and deal with the interaction between official and unofficial knowledge for example in the process and questions of significance of cultural heritage. Haanpää, Riina & Puolamäki, Laura & Raike, Eeva (becoming): ”Tapaus Eurajoki – ihmisen ja kulttuuriympäristön vuorovaikutussuhde tutkimuskohteena”. – Soveltava kulttuurintutkimus. University of Oulu, Oulu. Haanpää, Riina 2008: ”From a Fratricide to Family Memory”. – Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics. Ed. Art Leete. Estonian National Museum & University of Tartu. Co-authors Eeva Karhunen, PhD, post doc researcher, Cultural Heritage Studies, University of Turku, Finland. Narrating Cultural Heritage in the Sixth District of Pori. Doctoral dissertation, Faculty of Humanities, School of History, Culture and Arts Studies Degree Program of Cultural Production and Landscape Studies, Cultural Heritage Studies. University of Turku 2014. Rakennusperintö ja arjen arvot. Nylundin yleinen sauna aineettomana kulttuuriperintönä. In: Mitä on kulttuuriperintö? Ed. Outi Tuomi-Nikula, Riina Haanpää &Aura Kivilaakso. SKS, Helsinki 2013. Laura Puolamäki, PhD student, Landscape Research, University of Turku, Finland. Puolamäki, L (2011): Individual views and shared landscapes of folklore in Reykholtsdal, Iceland. European Countryside, vol. 4, p. 162-178. Versita, Warsaw. DOI 10.2478/v10091-012-0021-8 Virta, K, Puolamäki, L, Raike, E, Ernst, E & Uotila, K (2014): Reaching a sustainable cultural landscape through pedagogical evaluation of technology. Archäologische Informationen 36 (2013), 55-64 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11588/ai.2013

Sessions in which Riina Haanpää participates

Tuesday 7 June, 2016

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Sessions in which Riina Haanpää attends

Friday 3 June, 2016

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13:00 - 15:00 | 2 hours
Heritage as an Agent of Change (Epistemologies, Ontologies, Teaching)

This forum will explore the current directions of critical heritage studies and what makes ACHS distinctive. Panel members will discuss what the term critical means to them, and what directions they would like to see develop in the future. To help develop an open dialogue, the session will also give considerable time to contributions from the audience.  

Saturday 4 June, 2016

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9:00 - 10:00 | 1 hour
Public event
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What if we changed our views on heritage? And if heritage has already changed? While, on the global scene, states maintain their leading role in the mobilization of social and territorial histories, on the local scale, regions, neighbourhoods and parishes have changed. Citizens and communities too: they latch on to heritage to express an unprecedented range of belongings that no law seems to be able to take measures to contain, often to the discontent of...

18:30 - 20:00 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Public event
Simultaneous translation - Traduction simultanée

Most of what we experience as heritage emerges into conscious recognition through a complex mixture of political and ideological filters, including nationalism.  In these processes, through a variety of devices (museums, scholarly research, consumer reproduction, etc.), dualistic classifications articulate a powerful hierarchy of value and significance.  In particular, the tangible-intangible pair, given legitimacy by such international bodies as UNESCO, reproduces a selective ordering of cul...

Sunday 5 June, 2016

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14:00 - 15:30 | 1 hour 30 minutes
Co-Construction and Community Based HeritageHeritage Changes the Social OrderCitizenshipPublic event
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"What does heritage change?" is a multifaceted  question to which the answer(s) are in primary respects related to real-life negotiations among different groups of citizens, cultures, races, ethnic groups, sexual identities, and social classes about received, official and/or widely accepted or accomodated intangible attributes, cultural traditions, historic monuments, buildings, and other transmitted or revived historical legacies. Heritage designated by and for whom, for what motivations, an...