Sistemi tassonomici dell’immaginario globale. Prime ipotesi di ricerca a partire dal caso Unesco

Autore: Berardino Palumbo
In: Meridiana. 68, 2010
doi:10.1400/171120
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Abstract

Studying the Global Imagination from an Ethnography of the Unesco WHLs
In this paper I intend to start thinking about what I propose to call GTS (Global Taxonomic Systems): institutionalized taxonomic systems through which transnational agencies shape, and organize a global imagery, acting, as well as tools of planetary governance able to mould attitudes, values and emotions of millions of people. Among these taxonomic systems, the universe of sport, with its world federations, the apparently less formalized world tourism (with its stereotyping and areal specializations), the even widening space covered by the classifications of typical food. These scenarios are united by a cross-border character, by the presence of institutional agencies capable of giving organization in the world through precise taxonomic schemes, and by sharing an often implicit support to – and an equally implicit ability to mould a – «moral economy», a «global hierarchy of values» closely linked to the spread of neoliberal ideologies. Much of the analysis will be carried out, however, beginning with the case of the Unesco material and immaterial WHLs