Le bassin minier, paysage culturel évolutif vivant. Le paradoxe temporel derrière l’apparente uniformité spatiale ?

Abstract

This contribution analyzes the temporality of the patrimonialization of mining heritage in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais mining basin, based on thesis work carried out between 2013 and 2019, and regular fieldwork since then, combined with ongoing heritage policies. I will first attempt to identify how the patrimonialization of the mining heritage, observed over a long period of time, helps to differentiate logics and drivers for heritage development, depending on the play of and scale issues, while at the same time retaining a stabilizing function. The second part is to reflect on the Unesco category of “continuing cultural landscape” which involves a temporal paradox, and to put it in dialogue with conceptual propositions such as omnipatrimonialization, landscape-time and patrimonialism. These two lines of thought were conceived as complementary to consider the new temporalities of heritage in this area.

Keywords

• world heritage
• Unesco
• patrimonialization
• continuing cultural landscape
• Nord-Pas de Calais Mining Basin