Publications by Florence Graezer Bideau

Revitalizing Industrial Heritage: Mega-events and collective memory in public space transformation

For decades, mega-events have been employed as catalysts for urban development, transforming cityscapes, and generating socioeconomic growth. More recently, however, there has been a renewed focus on repurposing industrial heritage sites for hosting mega-e ...

Patrimonium2025

Cultural Heritage and Urban Landscapes: an Anthropological Approach

Florence Graezer Bideau

This article examines the anthropological approach to study heritage in urban landscapes, focusing on how cultural assets are constructed, preserved, and contested. The discussion situates heritage within evolving institutional frameworks, questioning the ...

2025

Dominant discourses framing the reuse of industrial heritage in the context of mega-events: a relationship matrix approach

Florence Graezer Bideau, Huishu Deng

The reuse of industrial heritage sites has become increasingly prevalent in the context of hosting mega-events. This paper aims to investigate this trend, specifically in the context of Olympic Games or World Expos, and its impact on urban regeneration str ...

2024

Industrial heritage in the hosting of mega-events: assessing the potential for urban redevelopment and social change?

Florence Graezer Bideau

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2024

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

Florence Graezer Bideau

Éditions Alphil - Presses universitaires suisses2024

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

Florence Graezer Bideau

2024

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

Florence Graezer Bideau, Peter Bille Larsen

Heritage processes are today increasingly entangled with multiple forms and discourses of creativity. Connections between creativity and heritage form part of a new consensual authorised discourse, where creativity and (heritage) entrepreneurship are proje ...

2024

Avalanche risks management as intangible cultural heritage

Florence Graezer Bideau, Chiara Maria Bortolotto

This paper tackles Avalanche Risks Management (ARM), nominated by Switzerland and Austria and inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2018. On the one hand, this nomination conventionally highlights how traditional em ...

2023

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

Florence Graezer Bideau, Thierry Marcel Theurillat

This article seeks to address current debates on ongoing China’s urban development and makes a theoretical proposal that links financialization and ecological civilization through the perspective of the increasing role of consumption in today’s transition ...

2022

Porter le temps. Mémoires urbaines d'un site horloger

Florence Graezer Bideau, Filippo De Pieri

Porter le temps Le temps est doublement protagoniste dans cet ouvrage : comme histoire et mémoire des transformations urbaines, mais aussi en tant que « matière première » d'un savoir-faire hautement spécialisé qui caractérise une région, celle de La Chaux ...

MētisPresses2021