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Title: | “Only so that my daughter gets exposure to the culture”: Ethnic leisure practices and intangible cultural heritage in British Indian diasporic families |
Authors: | Mukherjee, U |
Keywords: | intangible cultural heritage;Indian diaspora;children’s leisure;family leisure;leisure and ethnicity;patrimoine culturel immatériel;diaspora indienne;loisirs des enfants;loisirs en famille;loisirs et ethnicité |
Issue Date: | 31-Jan-2021 |
Publisher: | Presses de l'Université du Québec |
Citation: | Mukherjee, U. (2022) '“Only so that my daughter gets exposure to the culture”: Ethnic leisure practices and intangible cultural heritage in British Indian diasporic families', Loisir et Société / Society and Leisure, 0 (in press), pp. 1-16, doi: 10.1080/07053436.2021.1999089. |
Abstract: | Copyright © 2022 The Author(s). Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) as a concept has received considerable scholarly attention in recent years. However, empirical understanding of how ICH migrates, and is transmitted within diasporic communities is sparse. This paper draws upon a qualitative study with middle-class British Indian families living in and around London to unpack the ways in which ICH is enacted, interpreted, and transmitted from across generation through the construction of diasporic leisure spaces. Based on interviews with parents and children and observation of festival sites, it is argued that the leisure–ICH nexus in the diaspora materializes through two interlinked processes: “transmission of ethnic cultural capital” and “place-making.” These processes draw upon and contribute to diasporic social networks. In exploring these intersections, the paper further draws attention to how the internal differentiations within diasporic communities inflect the (re)production of diasporic leisure and ICH in the context of contemporary urban multi-culture in London. Le patrimoine culturel immatériel (PCI) en tant que concept a reçu une attention scientifique considérable ces dernières années. Cependant, la compréhension empirique sur la manière dont le PCI transmet au sein des communautés diasporiques est rare. Cet article s’appuie sur une étude qualitative à menée auprès de familles indiennes britanniques de la classe moyenne vivant à Londres et dans sa banlieue. Il présente l’analyse de la mise en œuvre, de l’interprétation et de la transmission du PCI de génération en génération au travers de la construction d’espaces de loisirs diasporiques. Sur la base d’entretiens menés auprès de parents et de leurs enfants, de même que de l’observation de sites de festival, il semble que le lien loisirs-PCI dans la diaspora se matérialise par le biais de deux processus interconnectés : « la transmission du capital culturel ethnique » et « la création de lieux ». |
URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/23298 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/07053436.2021.1999089 |
ISSN: | 0705-3436 |
Appears in Collections: | Dept of Education Research Papers |
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