Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Archaeology, Society and Sustainable Development, Ankara, Türkiye, 05 Ekim 2017, ss.5
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hegemonic understandings of heritage governance imply positive correlation between
“conservation” and “sustainability” as categories of public policy. However, when
it comes to implementation and overall effectiveness, the connection between the
two turns out to be much more intricate and conflictual than it is assumed,
projected, or propagated. In this talk, I would like to problematize the conventional
understandings of conservation and their consequences for the sustainability of
social life, focusing on the case of Köprülü Canyon National Park. This paper
is based on a research I have been conducting in the ancient Pisidia region, as
part of the Living Amid the Ruins (LAR) Project carried out by the British
Institute of Archaeology at Ankara (BIAA), funded by British Academy
Sustainable Development Program (Dr. Lutgarde Vandeput, PI & Dr. Işılay
Gürsu, Co-I). My engagement with the larger project has two strands. As a team
member, I inquire into the socio-environmental conditions of “sustainable
development” peculiar to the heritage sites. At the same time, as a political
anthropologist, I am concerned with the socio-political implications of
heritage conservation policies, which frequently put local communities in
conflict with policy implementers over property rights, land-use and access to
natural resources. I also seek to understand the interactions of local
communities with agents of the state bureaucracy, archaeological and ecological
expertise, and heritage capitalism.