Geopolitics in the Heritage: The Cultural Routes of Silk Roads

In this study, Wang proposes to study the new spatiality of heritagization through institutional territory, which examines how particular norm and identity is assembled by a constant (re-)configuration of people-things-place relationship (cite Adam A. Smith). Special attention will be paid to the agency of forming specific relations that holds the elements together: first, the complexity of actants in this process and their distributed agency and second, how these distributed agency were channeled to across borders and territorialised to form an arrangement of heterogenous elements that gives a degree of consistency to the overall identity.