Hao Zheng is a Ph.D. Candidate at the Australian National University. He obtained a bachelor of engineering (landscape architecture, Southwest Jiaotong University) and a master of architecture (Southwest Jiaotong University). Before his Ph.D. studying, he as a landscape architect participated in many rural plannings in China. His studying focuses on the dramatic reformation of cultural landscape in the southwest of China. Furthermore, he is a faithful reader of Foucault and interested in the genealogy, governmentality, and power in Foucault's literature.
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Saturday 14 December, 2019
This paper unpacks the language and corresponding classification system used when discussing heritage. Following a Foulcauldian logic, the results of this ever-changing lexicon mean that our understanding of "heritage" changes geographically, and over short spans of time, as new names come to supplant old ones, making others obsolete. The concrete results of this are that heritage is now made to fit these precise definitions, impacting real-world decisions and economics. This paper will share...