ABSTRACT

Liverpool hosted the European Capital of Cultural (ECoC) in 2008, four years after the city was granted UNESCO World Heritage Site status. A decade later the city council celebrated the anniversary of hosting, while at the same time UNESCO debated the imminent delisting of the city’s world heritage site. Concentrating on data collected during this anniversary year, this paper critically examines the extent to which an ECoC legacy narrative in the city remains intrinsically linked to an economic regeneration-dominated understanding of the role of culture that has changed very little since the bidding and hosting process. Large scale events and visitor economy strategies dominate the cultural offer, whilst heritage, in particular the World Heritage Site, is at best drawn upon in property or tourism led redevelopment advertisement, or, at worst, seen as negatively competing with the progress of a perceived city ‘renaissance’. This article draws upon cross sector multi-stakeholder mapping workshops, interviews and document analysis to explore how a selective legacy narrative continues to affect the development of a more embedded approach to cultural heritage within the city.

摘要

利物浦于 2008 年举办了欧洲文化之都 (ECoC)，四年后该市被授予联合国教科文组织世界遗产地位。十年后，市议会庆祝了主办周年纪念，与此同时，联合国教科文组织讨论了该市世界遗产即将被除名的问题。本文集中在这个周年纪念年收集的数据，批判性地研究了城市中的 ECoC 遗产叙述在多大程度上仍然与以经济再生为主导的对文化作用的理解存在内在联系，这种理解自招标和托管过程以来几乎没有变化. 大型活动和游客经济战略主导着文化产品，而遗产，特别是世界遗产，充其量是在房地产或旅游业主导的重建广告中，或者，最坏的情况是，被视为与感知到的城市“复兴”的进程产生负面竞争。本文利用跨部门的多利益相关者绘图研讨会、访谈和文件分析来探索选择性的遗产叙述如何继续影响城市内更深入的文化遗产方法的发展。