Publications

2024

Les politiques du patrimoine : Archive documentaire et registre Mémoire du Monde de l’UNESCO – L’exemple du Montreux Jazz Festival

F. Graezer Bideau 

2024. Patrimoine(s) en question(s) – Rencontres de la FFA pour l’art 2024, Saint-Maurice, Suisse, 2024-10-10.

Intersecting trajectories: Cultural heritage policies and rural revitalisation in China

F. G. Bideau 

2024. European Association for Chinese Studies, 25th biennial Conference 2024, Tallinn, Estonia, 2024-08-27 – 2024-08-30.

The state-led approach to industrial heritage in China’s mega-events: capital accumulation, urban regeneration, and heritage preservation

M. Zhang 

Built Heritage. 2024. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. 1 – 14. DOI : 10.1186/s43238-024-00144-1.

Héritage, patrimoine, crise des savoirs

F. Graezer Bideau; C. Barrère; E. Eyebiyi; M. Girard 

2024. XXIIe Congrès international des sociologues de langue française (AISLF), Ottawa, Canada, 2024-07-08 – 2024-07-12.

Des héritages et des patrimoines : Critique et production des savoirs

F. Graezer Bideau; C. Barrère; E. Eyebiyi; M. Girard 

2024. XXIIe Congrès international des sociologues de langue française (AISLF), Ottawa, Canada, 2024-07-08 – 2024-07-12.

Exploring the Dominant Discourse in Mega-events Legacy and Industrial Heritage Reuse through a Relationship Matrix

H. Roux; H. Deng 

(Industrial) Heritage, Mega-events and Urban Regeneration: Empirical Study on Discourses, Function and Spatial Experience, Torino, Italy, May 22, 2024.

S’engager et transmettre en féministe : pour une éthique du care à l’université

F. Graezer Bideau; M. Lieber 

Engagements: Penser la responsabilité de l’anthropologie avec Ellen Hertz; Neuchâtel: Éditions Alphil – Presses universitaires suisses, 2024.

La gestion du risque d’avalanches

F. Graezer Bideau; C. M. Bortolotto 

Formation continue: Patrimoine culturel immatériel et développement durable, INP 2024, Musée de Salagon, France, 13-17 mai 2024.

Anthropological Insights into the Cultural Heritage and Landscape Surrounding Beijing’s Forbidden City

F. Graezer Bideau 

Open Fields Lunch: Landscape Habitats, EPFL, Switzerland, April 9, 2024.

Intangible culture in built heritage: Practices of heritage-making at international and national scales

F. Graezer Bideau 

Future Heritage, Kernfach Master FS24, ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland, 2024-03-14.

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

P. B. Larsen; F. G. Bideau 

Anthropological Theory. 2024. DOI : 10.1177/14634996241227272.

Chungking Express : Proximité physique et distance émotionnelle dans le Hong Kong des années 1990

F. Graezer Bideau 

Ecrans Urbains 2024 (Ville, architecture, paysage au cinéma), Lausanne, Suisse, 21 Février 2024.

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

F. Graezer Bideau; P. Bugnon 

American Anthropologist. 2024. DOI : 10.1111/aman.13950.

Discovering common perception of Beijing 2022 Big Air Venue through photos from WeChat Channel & Weibo: A computer-assisted approach

H. Deng 

2024. 

Avalanche Risk Management: from science to practice and from the ground to research

F. Graezer Bideau 

Webinar ICH and climate change, Paris, France, January 18, 2024.

La gestion du danger d’avalanches en patrimoine

F. Graezer Bideau; C. M. Bortolotto 

Formation patrimoine culturel immatériel: PCI et gestion des ressources naturelles, Garae Ethnopôle, Carcassonne, France, January 9, 2023.

2023

Financialized ecological civilization and cultural consumption: Mountain area development driven by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

M. Zhang 

« Trait d’Urbain » seminar, UNIL, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 30, 2023.

Science and technology in the sustainabilization of ICH: the case of Avalanche Risk Management

C. M. Bortolotto 

2023. Special Forum on Safeguarding Living Heritage for Sustainability, UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office for East Asia and World Bank, Dunhuang, RPC, September 7, 2023.

Urbanization Paradigm Shift in China’s Mountain Areas Driven by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics: Financialized Ecological Civilization and Cultural Consumption

M. Zhang; T. Theurillat 

2023 RSA Annual Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 14–17, 2023.

Platform-mediated live musical performance in China: New social practices and urban cultural spaces

M. Zhang; Z. Xiao 

Geoforum. 2023. Vol. 140, p. 103723. DOI : 10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103723.

Discovering perceived images of reused industrial heritage from user-generated photos: Three mega-event reinforced industrial heritage transformation cases

H. Deng 

2023. Cities’ Identity Through Architecture and Arts (CITAA) – 6th Edition, Pisa, Italy, December 5-6, 2022.

Governing Heritage and Creativity: Frictions, Avenues and Questions

 

Siracusa: Lettera Ventidue, 2023.

The Governance of creative heritage and neo-aesthetics: between entertainment and politics in Asia

F. Graezer Bideau; P. B. Larsen 

Governing Heritage and Creativity: Frictions, Avenues and Questions; Siracusa: Lettera Ventidue, 2023.

Introduction : Héritage et patrimoine au prisme du conjonctif et du disjonctif

F. Graezer Bideau; C. Barrère; M. Girard; E. Eyebiyi 

Journées d’études Héritage et Patrimoine, Marseille, France, June 15-16, 2023.

Introduction : urban regeneration and industrial heritage

F. Graezer Bideau 

Urban Regeneration and Industrial Heritage, EPFL, February 23-24, 2023.

The Leisure activities in community “vacant” lots: How the grassroots practices appropriate the public space in China

F. Graezer Bideau; H. Deng 

XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, RC21 Regional and Urban Development, Melbourne, Australia, June 25-July 1, 2023.

Porter le temps : Mémoires urbaines d’un site horloger

F. Graezer Bideau 

Table ronde, Le Locle, Suisse, February 24, 2023.

Requestioning heritage narratives and the politics of storytelling

F. Graezer Bideau 

Hidden/(un)told heritage narratives and the politics of storytelling, Swiss Institute in Rome, Italy, May 15-16, 2023.

Avalanche risks management as intangible cultural heritage

F. Graezer Bideau; C. M. Bortolotto 

2023. 19th IUEAS-WAU World Anthropology Congress, Marginalities, uncertainties, and world anthropologies: enlivening past and envision future, New Delhi, India, October 14-20, 2023.

Pluralizing creativities in heritage governance

P. B. Larsen; F. Graezer Bideau 

Governing Heritage and Creativity: Frictions, Avenues and Questions; Siracusa: Lettera Ventidue, 2023.

2022

WeChat as an unavoidable research tool for fieldwork, and its problems

M. Zhang 

WeChat Ethnography: New Practices and Limits of an Emerging Research Method, Geneva, Switzerland, October 7, 2022.

Analysis of Beijing 2022 Big Air Venue through data from WeChat Channel & Weibo

H. Deng 

WeChat Ethnography: New Practices and Limits of an Emerging Research Method. Part 1, Geneva, Switzerland, October 7, 2022.

The resistance of stone: thick and fragmented urban collective memory in Gulou

F. Graezer Bideau 

Digitalization of Memory in China, Bonn, Germany, 21-22 September 2022.

The state-led use of industrial heritage in mega-events in China

M. Zhang 

TICCIH 2022 Industrial Heritage Reloaded, Montreal, Canada, August 28 – September 3, 2022.

Mega Event Reinforced Industrial Heritage Transformation: A typological matrix between narratives and practices

F. Graezer Bideau; H. Deng 

TICCIH 2022 Industrial Heritage Reloaded, Montreal, Canada, 28 August – 3 September 2022.

Avalanche et UNESCO : rien à voir ?

F. Graezer Bideau 

Festival International du Film Alpin (FIFAD), Diablerets, Suisse, August 13-20, 2022.

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

T. Theurillat; F. Graezer Bideau 

Transactions in Planning and Urban Research. 2022. Vol. 1, num. 1, p. 1 – 15. DOI : 10.1177/27541223221101720.

Porter le temps: mémoires urbaines du Locle et de la Chaux-de-Fonds

F. Graezer Bideau 

The production of urban memory: an interdisciplinary roundtable, Milano, Italy, May 26, 2022.

Uses of Cultural Heritage: The iconic case of Shougang

F. Graezer Bideau 

Dialogue on Winter Olympic Games. From Beijing to Milan: Design Innovations for Sustainability, Virtual Event, May 12, 2022.

Le Locle/La Chaux-de-Fonds: Public histories and industrial heritage in contemporary cities

F. Graezer Bideau; F. De Pieri 

Open Fields Lunch–Productive habitats, Lausanne, Switzerland, April 14, 2022.

Governance of Heritage and Creativity: an introductory framework

F. Graezer Bideau; P. B. Larsen 

Governing Heritage and Creativity: frictions, avenues and questions, Rome, Italy, April 4-5, 2022.

Shougang ou la nouvelle icône du patrimoine industriel chinois

F. Graezer Bideau; T. Theurillat 

2022.

Rumba congolaise et enjeux de l’inscription au patrimoine culturel immatériel de l’UNESCO

F. Graezer Bideau; P. Bizet 

Table ronde at the Black Movies Festival, Genève, 27.01.2022.

L’art d’accommoder les ancêtres de la nation : Analyse du processus patrimonial national des tombeaux musulmans dans le Sud-est chinois (Canton, Quanzhou et Yangzhou)

P. Bugnon / F. Graezer Bideau (Dir.)  

University of Geneva, 2022. 

Mega-Event Reinforced Industrial Heritage Transformation: The making of public space between narratives and practices

F. Graezer Bideau; H. Deng 

2022. TICCIH 2022 Industrial Heritage Reloaded, Montreal, Montreal, Canada, August 28 – September 3, 2022.

2021

Les anthropologues face aux “traditions vivantes”: l’exemple suisse

F. Graezer Bideau 

Colloque international Nommer / Normer : Approches pluridisciplinaires du patrimoine culturel immatériel, Paris, France, November 25-26, 2021.

Reframing Heritage, Creativity and Innovation

F. Graezer Bideau; P. B. Larsen 

Heritage, Creativity and Innovation Nexus: an international workshop, Lausanne, Switzerland, November 4-5, 2021.

La Suisse en inventaire : politiques de sauvegarde du PCI

F. Graezer Bideau 

Patrimoine culturel immatériel : Cadres international et national, réseaux, territoires, Vitré, France, 12-13 octobre 2021.

Beijing Winter Olympic Games 2022: ecological civilization as a new step for extended urbanization to enhance consumption

F. Graezer Bideau; T. Theurillat 

The 2021 annual conference of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 21 on Urban and Regional Development (RC21 Conference): Sensing the city, [Online edition] Antwerpen, Belgium, July 14-16, 2021.

Explorer la micropolitique de transformation à Pékin : le patrimoine culturel vu à travers le prisme de la mémoire collective d’un quartier historique

F. Graezer Bideau 

Assises de l’Anthropologie des Mondes Chinois, Paris, France, Juin 16-18, 2021.

Temporalité et savoirs urbains: une recherche située autour d’un processus patrimonial

F. De Pieri; F. Graezer Bideau 

Porter le temps. Mémoires urbaines d’un site horologer; Genève: MētisPresses, 2021.

Porter le temps. Mémoires urbaines d’un site horloger

F. De Pieri; F. Graezer Bideau 

Genève: MētisPresses, 2021.

Une pluralité des formes patrimoniales pour une reconnaissance sur les listes de l’UNESCO, 2002-2020

F. Graezer Bideau 

Porter le temps. Mémoires urbaines d’un site horologer; Genève: MētisPresses, 2021.

Nurturing the socialist spiritual civilization: Interplay between anthropology and politics

F. Graezer Bideau 

Swiss Anthropological Association Annual Meeting Reviewing “the field”: contemporary debates and approaches to fieldwork, Ascona, Switzerland, April 22-24, 2021.

Property rights redistribution and the spatial evolution of the Chinese danwei compound: a case study in Beijing

M. Zhang; T. Zhang; Z. Xiao; Y. Chai 

Journal Of Housing And The Built Environment. 2021. Vol. 36, p. 1585 – 1602. DOI : 10.1007/s10901-020-09810-z.

Cultivating public space and yangge dance

F. Graezer Bideau 

Symposium XJTLU Public Space Forum, Suzhou, PRC, Live Zoom Event,

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

F. Graezer Bideau 

The China Quarterly. 2021. Vol. 248, p. 1234 – 1236. DOI : 10.1017/S0305741021001272.

Heritage as new social engineering in China: a re-colonializing perspective

F. Graezer Bideau 

Heritage and Decoloniality: the Geneva exchanges, Geneva, Suisse, October 21-22, 2021.

Places in Common: An Ethnography of Public Gatherings in China

F. Graezer Bideau 

China Perspectives. 2021. num. 3, p. 75 – 76.

Re-creating Memories of Gulou: Three Temporalities and Emotions

F. Graezer Bideau; H. Yan 

People-Centered Methodologies for Heritage Conservation: Exploring Emotional Attachment to Historic Urban Places; London and New York: Routledge, 2021.

2020

Innovators in Urban China: Makerspaces and Marginality with Impact

M. Bolli 

Urban Planning. 2020. Vol. 5, num. 4, p. 68 – 77. DOI : 10.17645/up.v5i4.3218.

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

F. Graezer Bideau 

The Heritage Turn in China. The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage; Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020.

Le rôle des experts dans la création de l’inventaire du patrimoine culturel immatériel en Suisse

F. Graezer Bideau 

Le patrimoine culturel immatériel au seuil des sciences sociales. Actes du colloque de Cerisy-la-Salle, septembre 2012; Paris: Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme, 2020.

Le maker, construction d’une figure politique de l’innovation en Chine urbaine

F. Graezer Bideau; C. L. G. Renaud 

EspacesTemps.net. 2020.  p. 24 pages. DOI : 10.26151/espacestemps.net-t0f8-r859.

La mémoire collective et l’espace. Traces, récits et expériences autour d’un paysage urbain romain

L. Bordone / F. Graezer Bideau; F. De Pieri (Dir.)  

Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. 

Planning: from model to modules

F. Graezer Bideau 

Realtime: making digital China; Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2020.

2019

Ville éphémère : la Fête des Vignerons aujourd’hui et demain

F. Graezer Bideau; L. Ortelli 

Ecosystème de Lavaux. Lavaux Patrimoine mondial, Grandvaux, Suisse, November 5, 2019.

Cultural heritage, leisure and Beijing Olympic Winter Games 2022

F. Graezer Bideau 

Workshop at the Beijing Municipal Institute of City Planning and Design, Beijing, PRC, October 28, 2019.

Historic Urban Landscape as an opportunity for change? Evidence from Beijing

F. Graezer Bideau 

Globalized Heritage in Asia: regional articulations, silences, contestations, Université de Genève, Suisse, May 24, 2019.

Entangled Memories in the Bell and Drum Towers in Beijing

F. Graezer Bideau 

ACC Lecture Architecture: conjectures and refutations, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, March 14, 2019.

Vous avez dit: “traditions vivantes urbaines” en Suisse?

F. Graezer Bideau 

2019. Colloque international: Une approche interdisciplinaire du patrimoine culturel immatériel, Museum Fünf Kontinente, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Deutschland, Mars 7-8, 2019.

2018

Re-creating Memories of Gulou: Three Temporalities and Emotions

F. Graezer Bideau; H. Yan 

Association of Critical Heritage Studies 4th Biennal conference, Heritage Across Boarders, Hangzhou, China, September 1-6, 2018.

Inventories without archives: the list of “Living Traditions in Switzerland”

F. Graezer Bideau 

Archiving Intangible Cultural Heritage & Performing Arts – a Symposium for Living Traditions, Artlab, EPFL, Lausanne, August 6-7, 2018.

Politiques de la tradition. Le patrimoine culturel immatériel

E. Hertz; F. Graezer Bideau; W. Leimgruber; H. Munz 

Lausanne: Presses Polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2018.

Historic Urban Landscape in Beijing: The Gulou Project and Its Contested Memories

F. Graezer Bideau; H. Yan 

Chinese Heritage in the Making: Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations; Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

Resistance to places of collective memories: A rapid Transformation Landscape in Beijing

F. Graezer Bideau 

The Palgrave Handbook of Urban Ethnography; London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. p. 259 – 278.

2017

The thickness and fragmentation of urban collective memory: the “resistance of the stones” in Gulou, Beijing

F. Graezer Bideau 

International Symposium on Anthropology undergoing the evolution of communities, Beijing, PRC, September 23, 2017.

Redéfinitions du patrimoine culturel par les marges : Résistances à la Recommandation sur les paysages historiques dans le quartier de Gulou, Beijing

F. Graezer Bideau 

Colloque International Le Patrimoine Mondial : une valeur universelle exceptionnelle ?, Centre des Monuments nationaux, Cité de Carcassonne, France, 4-5 Décembre, 2017.

Memory and historic urban landscapes: An interdisciplinary research in Mexico-City, Rome and Beijing

F. Graezer Bideau; Y. Pedrazzini; L. Bordone; L. A. Herrera Quiroz; F. De Pieri 

2017

Urban Scars, Ghosts and Collective Memories : Heritage and Resistance to Patrimonialization in Beijing and Mexico City

F. Graezer Bideau; Y. Pedrazzini; L. A. Herrera Quiroz 

School of Architecture / Anna University, Chennai, India, January 27, 2017.

Heritage in the Making: a genealogy of successive attempts for UNESCO lists

F. Graezer Bideau 

Public Seminar Memory and the city: An ongoing collective research on the Unesco site of Le Locle and La Chaux-de-Fonds, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, June 27, 2017.

Regards sur les politiques du PCI en Suisse

F. Graezer Bideau; E. Hertz 

Patrimoine culturel immatériel; Liège: Presses universitaires de Liège, 2017. p. 317 – 328.

The Practices of World Heritage-Making: Chinese National Hegemony and UNESCO Narratives

F. Graezer Bideau 

Lecture series Master Degree in Architecture Construction City, Turin, Italy, May 17, 2017.

2016

Tourisme et patrimoine dans la ville de Malacca, Malaisie: un couple bien assorti?

F. Graezer Bideau; M. Kilani 

Ethnologies. 2016. Vol. 38, num. 1-2, p. 83 – 105. DOI : 10.7202/1041588ar.

Cartographier les mémoires collectives à Gulou ou la difficulté d’allier les volontés politiques et les voix populaires dans le centre historique de Pékin

F. Graezer Bideau 

Séminaire de l’Institut d’Asie Orientale, ENS-Lyon, France, Novembre 17, 2016.

Beijing Danwei: from the Memory of the City to New Regeneration Plans

M. Bonino; F. Graezer Bideau 

Forum Architecture in China and Italy: From Ancient Towns to Low-Carbon Towns, Firenze, Italy, March 18, 2016.

2015

Hutongs – Transformations: A Battle between memories

A. Pagani 

International workshop Architecture and Resistance, Lasur (ENAC), Iags (CdH), EPFL, Switzerland, December 14-15, 2015.

Process of patrimonialisation and collective memories in Gulou communities

F. Graezer Bideau 

International workshop: Mapping controversial memories project in Beijing, Beijing Design Week, BaiTaSi ReMade, Beijing, China, September 25-28, 2015.

Gulou communities between the historical Drum and Bell Tower square

F. Graezer Bideau 

International workshop Architecture and Resistance, Lasur (ENAC), Iags (CdH), EPFL, Switzerland, December 14-15, 2015.

Eduquer les masses par la culture: l’exemple de la danse du yangge

F. Graezer Bideau 

Conférence, cours Enjeux sociaux en Chine contemporaine, Université de Genève, Suisse, Mars 17, 2015.

Identifying ‘living traditions’ in Switzerland

F. Graezer Bideau 

International conference Das Immaterielle Kulturerbe in Österreich. Interaktionen von Kultur, Politik und Ökonomie, Museum für Volskunde, Institut für Kultur and Sozialanthropologie, Universität Wien, Austria, June 10-12, 2015.

Zhangjiakou sustainable projects for 2022 Winter Olympic Games: a critical overview from anthropological perspective

F. Graezer Bideau 

Review of the Joint studio Tsinghua PoliTO 2015: Zhangjiakou sustainable projects for 2022 Winter Olympic Games, Castello del Valentino, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, June 15, 2015.

Mapping collective memories in Beijing: emerging controversies within Gulou communities

F. Graezer Bideau 

International conference Cultural heritage in China: Contested Understandings, Images and Practices, Lund University, Sweden, June 17-18, 2015.

The mapping controversial memories (MCM) project

F. Graezer Bideau 

Kick-off meeting of the Mapping controversial memories in the historic urban landscape: a multidisciplinary study in Beijing, Mexico City and Rome, Istituto Svizzero di Roma, Italy, February 18-20, 2015.

Discussants on Beijing Danwei: Industrial Heritage in the Contemporary City (Berlin, Jovis, 2015) edited by Michele Bonino and Filippo De Pieri

F. Graezer Bideau; F. Frassoldati 

Launch Book, Beijing Design Week, Relay Factory, Dashilar, Beijing, China, September 25, 2015.