Publications de Florence Graezer Bideau

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Multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, and making heritage in Malaysia: a view from the historic cities of the Straits of Malacca

Based on the 'universal' values of economic development, democratic governance and cultural diversity promoted by UNESCO, the official policy of the Federation of Malaysia, known as Wawasan 2020 (Vision 2020), promotes modernization with an emphasis on dem ...

Taylor & Francis2012

Re-creating Memories of Gulou: Three Temporalities and Emotions

Florence Graezer Bideau

In 2012, a project proposed by local authorities aimed to revitalise, after a century of interruption, the use of Beijing’s Bell and Drum Towers and the social traditions associated with them. As a result, more than 100 households living in 66 traditional ...

Routledge2021

Revitalizing Industrial Heritage: Mega-events and collective memory in public space transformation

Florence Graezer Bideau, Huishu Deng

For decades, mega-events have been employed as catalysts for urban development, transforming cityscapes, and generating socioeconomic growth. More recently, however, there has been a renewed focus on repurposing industrial heritage sites for hosting mega-e ...

Patrimonium2025

Planning: from model to modules

Florence Graezer Bideau

The tradition of planning in China is multisecular. The planning of the Chinese Imperial city was based on the model of the walled city that was reproduced and extended over several scales, from micro (courtyard) to macro (an entire city). The spatial revo ...

EPFL Press2020

Cultural Heritage and Urban Landscapes: an Anthropological Approach

Florence Graezer Bideau

This article examines the anthropological approach to study heritage in urban landscapes, focusing on how cultural assets are constructed, preserved, and contested. The discussion situates heritage within evolving institutional frameworks, questioning the ...

2025

Short-term field study programmes for developing interdisciplinary skills in engineering education

Florence Graezer Bideau, Roland John Tormey, Marc Laperrouza, Johanna Susette Gonçalves Martin, Eric Hoesli

Short-term field study involves groups of students working in an off-campus (sometimes international) setting, and often involves working on realistic, open-ended problems, in interaction with a host community. Such learning experiences are intended to dev ...

2019

Developing interdisciplinary and intercultural skills in engineers through short-term field experiences

Florence Graezer Bideau, Roland John Tormey, Marc Laperrouza, Johanna Susette Gonçalves Martin, Eric Hoesli

Short-term field study experiences are increasingly popular in engineering education. Where they include an international dimension, they can also develop skills and knowledge needed for working across cultures and in interdisciplinary teams. Such programs ...

INFONIA2020

China’s extended urbanization driven by the 'consumption city' in the context of financialized ecological civilization

Florence Graezer Bideau, Thierry Marcel Theurillat

This article seeks to address current debates on ongoing China’s urban development and makes a theoretical proposal that links financialization and ecological civilization through the perspective of the increasing role of consumption in today’s transition ...

2022

The Social Life of Heritage-Making: Cultural Representations and Frictions

Florence Graezer Bideau

The chapter explores the social and historic construction of heritage and the role played in this by institutions, from an anthropological perspective. Since state members ratified the UNESCO Conventions, national inventories have been collated so that can ...

Amsterdam University Press2020

Avalanche risks management as intangible cultural heritage

Florence Graezer Bideau, Chiara Maria Bortolotto

This paper tackles Avalanche Risks Management (ARM), nominated by Switzerland and Austria and inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2018. On the one hand, this nomination conventionally highlights how traditional em ...

2023

Heritage as new social engineering in China: (De)colonial avenues

Florence Graezer Bideau

2024

Dominant discourses framing the reuse of industrial heritage in the context of mega-events: a relationship matrix approach

Florence Graezer Bideau, Huishu Deng, Héléna Elisabeth Marguerite Roux

The reuse of industrial heritage sites has become increasingly prevalent in the context of hosting mega-events. This paper aims to investigate this trend, specifically in the context of Olympic Games or World Expos, and its impact on urban regeneration str ...

2024

Making the city: re-assembling spaces of manufacturing

Florence Graezer Bideau, Marc Laperrouza, Monique Stéphanie Bolli, Clément Luc Guillaume Renaud

This introductory paper questions how urban places emerging from the maker movement are re-assembling spatial settings in cities, with the example of the Shenzhen/Hong-Kong area. We discuss how the growing importance of assemblage in manufacturing processe ...

2017

Inventorier les ‘traditions vivantes’. Approches du patrimoine culturel immatériel dans le système fédéral suisse

Florence Graezer Bideau

L'article interroge le processus de patrimonialisation mis en œuvre suite à la ratification par la Suisse de la Convention pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel en 2008. Il présente une analyse des premiers résultats de l'enquête, menée entr ...

2012

Et après la ratification de la Convention de l’UNESCO pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel? Entretien avec David Vitali

Florence Graezer Bideau

2010

Industrial heritage in the hosting of mega-events: assessing the potential for urban redevelopment and social change?

Florence Graezer Bideau

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2024

Asian Theatres at work. Circulation, expression, politics

Florence Graezer Bideau

Anthropos Inst2014

Beijing from below stories of marginalized lives in the capitals center by Harriet Evans

Florence Graezer Bideau

2021

Towards a critical anthropology of the (de)creative turn in heritage

Florence Graezer Bideau, Peter Bille Larsen

Heritage processes are today increasingly entangled with multiple forms and discourses of creativity. Connections between creativity and heritage form part of a new consensual authorised discourse, where creativity and (heritage) entrepreneurship are proje ...

2024

Porter le temps. Mémoires urbaines d'un site horloger

Florence Graezer Bideau, Filippo De Pieri

Porter le temps Le temps est doublement protagoniste dans cet ouvrage : comme histoire et mémoire des transformations urbaines, mais aussi en tant que « matière première » d'un savoir-faire hautement spécialisé qui caractérise une région, celle de La Chaux ...

MētisPresses2021