Publications

2025. Anthropology & Sociology Conversation (2025), Geneva Graduate Institute, 2025-11-11.

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

Chinese Heritage in the Making: Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations; Taylor and Francis, 2025. p. 93 – 117.

Anthropologie critique de la réalité virtuelle : entre médiation patrimoniale et rapports de pouvoir

2025. Table ronde: Les expériences immersives pour la recherche et la valorisation du patrimoine-FIFAN, Nyon, Suisse, 2025-09-03.

P. B. Larsen; F. Graezer Bideau

Unveiling hidden heritage: Narratives, politics, and agency

Siracusa: LetteraVentidue, 2025.

Unvelling hidden heritage: narratives, politics, and agency

Siracusa: LetteraVentidue, 2025.

Resistance of the Stone and Fragmented Digital Collective Memory in Gulou, China

The Digitalisation of Memory Practices in China: Contesting the Curating State; Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2025. p. 99 – 119.

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

2025. The 18th International Congress of TICCIH : Industrial Heritage Reloaded, Montréal, Canada, 2022-08-28 – 2022-09-03.

Hop on the train! – Interactive platform to explore the collection of Montreux Jazz Memories interviews and synthesize interconnected stories

2025

Les stories du Montreux Jazz Festival

F. Graezer Bideau; A. Dufaux; D. Belfiore; C. Delvecchio

2025. Table-Ronde: Les Stories du Montreux Jazz Festival, Montreux, Switzerland, 2025-07-13.

An Anthropological Perspective on Heritage: Connecting the Tangible and the Intangible

The (theoretical) discourse : A future for whose past ?, Museum Swiss Architecture, Basel, Switzerland, 2025-06-12.

La gestion des risques d’avalanches: élément du patrimoine culturel immatériel au prisme du développement durable

Heritage for Sustainable Development, Genève, Suisse, 2025-04-02.

F. Graezer Bideau; A. K. De Almeida Milani

Regards anthropologiques sur les lieux de sociabilité dans les villes

Urban Legends Porto – Théorie et critique du projet BA3 (Gay et Menzel), Lausanne, Switzerland, 2025-03-25.

Governing by design: company towns and the biopolitical project

A. K. De Almeida Milani

Workshop: Human Autonomy, Spatial Design, and the Future of Work, Delft, The Netherlands, 2025-02-25.

Reconfiguring the Mountains: Mechanisms and Practices of Chongli’s Extended Urbanization Driven by the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

M. Zhang / F. Graezer Bideau; T. M. Theurillat (Dir.)

Lausanne, EPFL, 2025.

Cultural Heritage and Urban Landscapes: an Anthropological Approach

World Architecture. 2025. Vol. 417, num. 03-04, p. 37 – 44.

F. Graezer Bideau; C. Bortolotto

La gestion du risque d’avalanche : vers un nouveau modèle pour penser le PCI

2025. 9e colloque international CFPCI “Le patrimoine vivant en situation d’urgence: prévenir, résister, réparer et réconcilier”, Ethnopôle Centre français du patrimoine culturel immatériel (CFPCI), 2022-11-17 – 2022-11-18. p. 13 – 22.

The authentic city: uses of industrial heritage in large-scale regeneration projects, a comparative analysis

H. Roux / F. Graezer Bideau; T. M. Theurillat (Dir.)

Lausanne, EPFL, 2025.

2024

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

F. G. Bideau; H. Deng; H. Roux

Built Heritage. 2024. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. 45. DOI : 10.1186/s43238-024-00154-z.

Anthropological Insights into the Cultural Heritage and Urban Landscape

2024. 4th International Forum on Engineering Education & 2024 Tsinghua Design Science Conference, Shougang, Beijing, PRC, 2024-11-28 – 2024-11-29.

Chair – Discussant: Panel Patrimoines, collectionneurs et transmetteurs

F. G. Bideau

2024. Chinese Heritage Arenas. Territories and Heritage Practices in Contemporary Sinophone Worlds, Paris, France, 2024-11-21 – 2024-11-22.

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

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

F. Graezer Bideau; A-M. Broudehoux

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

Built Heritage. 2024. Vol. 8, num. 1. DOI : https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00157-w.

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.

Financialized ecological civilization and cultural consumption: extended urbanization in the mountains of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics

35th International Geographical Congress 2024, Dublin, 2024-08-24 – 2024-08-30.

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

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.

F. Graezer Bideau; M. Lieber

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

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

Résumé des interviews Montreux Jazz Memories

M. Mognol

2024.

F. Graezer Bideau; C. M. Bortolotto

La gestion du risque d’avalanches

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

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

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

H. Deng

2024. Cities’ Identity Through Architecture and Arts (CITAA) – 6th Edition, Pisa, Italy, 2022-12-05 – 2022-12-06. DOI : 10.1007/978-3-031-48517-6_6.

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

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

P. B. Larsen; F. G. Bideau

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

Anthropological Theory. 2024. DOI : 10.1177/14634996241227272.

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

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

F. Graezer Bideau; P. Bugnon

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

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

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

F. Graezer Bideau; C. M. Bortolotto

La gestion du danger d’avalanches en patrimoine

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

« 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.

Introduction : urban regeneration and industrial heritage

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

F. Graezer Bideau; P. B. Larsen

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

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

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

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

Requestioning heritage narratives and the politics of storytelling

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

Porter le temps : Mémoires urbaines d’un site horloger

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

F. Graezer Bideau; C. M. Bortolotto

Avalanche risks management as intangible cultural heritage

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

P. B. Larsen; F. Graezer Bideau

Pluralizing creativities in heritage governance

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.

Governing Heritage and Creativity: Frictions, Avenues and Questions

Siracusa: Lettera Ventidue, 2023.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Avalanche et UNESCO : rien à voir ?

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

T. Theurillat; F. Graezer Bideau

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

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

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

Uses of Cultural Heritage: The iconic case of Shougang

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

F. Graezer Bideau; F. De Pieri

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

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

F. Graezer Bideau; P. B. Larsen

Governance of Heritage and Creativity: an introductory framework

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

F. Graezer Bideau; T. Theurillat

Shougang ou la nouvelle icône du patrimoine industriel chinois

2022.

F. Graezer Bideau; P. Bizet

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

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

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

2021

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

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

F. Graezer Bideau; P. B. Larsen

Reframing Heritage, Creativity and Innovation

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

La Suisse en inventaire : politiques de sauvegarde du PCI

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

F. Graezer Bideau; T. Theurillat

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

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

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

F. De Pieri; F. Graezer Bideau

Porter le temps. Mémoires urbaines d’un site horloger

Genève: MētisPresses, 2021.

F. De Pieri; F. Graezer Bideau

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

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

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

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

Nurturing the socialist spiritual civilization: Interplay between anthropology and politics

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

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

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

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

Places in Common: An Ethnography of Public Gatherings in China

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

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

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

Re-creating Memories of Gulou: Three Temporalities and Emotions

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

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

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.

F. Graezer Bideau; C. L. G. Renaud

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

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

Planning: from model to modules

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

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.

F. Graezer Bideau; L. Ortelli

2019

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

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

Cultural heritage, leisure and Beijing Olympic Winter Games 2022

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

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

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

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

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

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”

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

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

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

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

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

2017

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

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