Utilitarian Humanism: Culture in the Service of Regulating "We Other Humans"

Narkunas, J. Paul

doi:10.1353/tae.2007.0082

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Progress and The ‘Right’ Kinds Of Culture: From Cultural Unity To Cultural Diversity1

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“…Those are key values, necessities and normative representations for producing a better world, for fulfilling the organization’s goal of world solidarity, freedom and peace (see e.g. Lentin, 2005; Narkunas, 2007; Wright, 1998b). Such progressive imaginaries work through stating contrasts towards phenomena which must be condemned.…”

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UNESCO and the ‘right’ kind of culture: Bureaucratic production and articulation

Nielsen

2011

Critique of Anthropology

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There has been much debate on ‘culturespeak’ and the politics of culture, but the bureaucratic articulation of specific representations of culture has not received much attention. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, this article presents a double take on bureaucracy. On the one hand, I focus on the outcome of UNESCO’s bureaucracy: UNESCO promotes an all-inclusive culture perspective for ‘We the Peoples of the United Nations’, but there are limits to tolerance in this culture ideology. On the other hand, I focus on the social and pragmatic adaptation to the bureaucratic field and towards UNESCO’s keywords, as they are embedded with institutional authority in everyday practice. In conclusion, I briefly situate UNESCO’s culture ideology in relation to questions of recognition and redistribution.

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confidence: 99%