Urban heritage conundrum Urban built environments are spatial and material archives. Streets, buildings, open spaces, or infrastructures are registers of historical negotiations and repositories of ...data. Stories of power, geopolitics, economic systems, labour and culture can be revealed through road names and construction materials, portals and pediments, park benches and chimneys. Embodying our desires, needs, and resources, they condition how we live and interact with each other, and trigger countless reinterpretations and re-appropriations. Most of this dense layering is not immediately legible; it has not been decoded. Rather it is part of a more intuitive, lived sense of “urbanity” that generates contemporary individual and collective senses of identity and belonging. These complex urban palimpsests form the constitutive stages upon, with and against which everyday and extraordinary cultural life is performed.
This book takes as its object of investigation an array of traumatic heritage sites and spaces of memory, including museums, former detention camps, and sites of commemoration, in Europe, Argentina, ...and Colombia, to investigate how various traumatic pasts can be preserved and transmitted through space, and which kind of actions might be taken both to improve knowledge of the past and to serve as an opening to a discussion of current social issues.
The prevalent global heritage discourse has been primarily Euro-centric in its origin, premise, and praxis. Diverse cultural, historical, and geographical contexts, such as that of Asia, call for ...more context-specific approaches to heritage management. This book explores this complexity of managing the cultural heritage in Asia.
Case studies include sites of Angkor, Himeji Castle, Kathmandu Valley, Luang Prabang, Lumbini, and Malacca, and the book uses these to explore the religious worldviews, heritage policies, intangible heritage dimensions, traditional preservation practices, cultural tourism, and the notion of cultural landscape that are crucial in understanding the cultural heritage in Asia. It critiques the contemporary regulatory frameworks in operation and focuses on the issues of global impact on the local cultures in the region. The book goes on to emphasize the need for integrated heritage management approaches that encompass the plurality of heritage conservation concerns in Asian countries.
Themes are discussed from the vantage point of heritage scholars and practitioners in the South, Southeast, and East Asia. This book thus presents a distinctive Asian perspective which is a valuable source for students and practitioners of heritage within and beyond the Asian context.
Reclaiming the Past examines the post-antique history of Argos and how the city's archaeological remains have been perceived and experienced since the late eighteenth century by both local residents ...and foreign visitors to the Greek Peloponnese. The first western visitors to Argos—a city continuously inhabited for six millennia—invariably expected to encounter landscapes described in classical texts—yet what they found fell far short of those expectations. At the same time, local meanings attributed to ancient sites reflected an understanding of the past at odds with the supposed expertise of classically educated outsiders.Jonathan M. Hall details how new views of Argos emerged after the Greek War of Independence (1821–1830) with the adoption of national narratives connecting the newly independent kingdom to its ancient Hellenic past. With rising local antiquarianism at the end of the nineteenth century, new tensions surfaced between conserving the city's archaeological heritage and promoting urban development. By carefully assessing the competing knowledge claims between insiders and outsiders over Argos's rich history, Reclaiming the Past addresses pressing questions about who owns the past.
Diversity of Belonging in Europe analyzes conflicting notions of identity and belonging in contemporary Europe. Addressing the creation, negotiation, and (re) use of diverse spaces and places of ...belonging, the book examines their fascinating complexities in the context of a changing Europe. Taking an innovative interdisciplinary approach, the volume examines renegotiations of belonging played out through cultural encounters with difference and change, in diverse public spaces and contested places. Highlighting the interconnections between social change and culture, heritage, and memory, the chapters analyze multilayered public spaces and the negotiations over culture and belonging that are connected to them. Through analyses of diverse case studies, the editors and authors draw out the significance of the participation or exclusion of differing community, grassroots, and activist groups in such practices and discourses of belonging in relation to the contemporary emergence of identity conflicts and political uses of the past across Europe. They analyze the ways in which people’s sense of belonging is connected to cultural, heritage, and memory practices undertaken in different public spaces, including museums, cultural and community centres, city monuments and built heritage, neglected urban spaces, and online fora. Diversity of Belonging in Europe provides a valuable contribution to the existing bodies of work on identities, migration, public space, memory, and heritage. The book will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in contested belonging, public spaces, and the role of culture and heritage. Susannah Eckersley is Senior Lecturer at Newcastle University, UK, an Associated Research Fellow at the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF) in Potsdam, Germany, and the Project Leader of en/counter/points – a collaborative European research project on public spaces and belonging funded by HERA. Her expertise is in memory, museums, difficult heritage, migration, identities, and belonging. Claske Vos is an anthropologist and Assistant Professor in the Department of European Studies at the Humanities Faculty of the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Her current work focuses on the intersection of EU funding, cultural activism, and enlargement. Her expertise is in European cultural policy, cultural heritage, Southeast Europe, and European identity formation.
This collection provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of the concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the issues surrounding its value to society. Critically engaging with the UNESCO ...2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage , the book also discusses local-level conceptualizations of living cultural traditions, practices and expressions, and reflects on the efforts that seek to safeguard them. Exploring a global range of case studies, the book considers the diverse perspectives currently involved with intangible cultural heritage and presents a rich picture of the geographic, socioeconomic and political contexts impacting research in this area. With contributions from established and emerging scholars, public servants, professionals, students and community members, this volume is also deeply enhanced by an interdisciplinary approach which draws on the theories and practices of heritage and museum studies, anthropology, folklore studies, ethnomusicology, and the study of cultural policy and related law. The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage undoubtedly broadens the international heritage discourse and is an invaluable learning tool for instructors, students and practitioners in the field.
Introduction Michelle Stefano and Peter Davis
A Decade Later: Critical Reflections on the UNESCO-ICH Paradigm
1. Development of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention: Creating a New Heritage Protection Paradigm? Janet Blake 2. The Examination of Nomination Files under the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Rieks Smeets and Harriet Deacon 3. A Conversation with Richard Kurin 4. Placing Intangible Cultural Heritage, Owing a Tradition, Affirming Sovereignty: the Role of Spatiality in the Practice of the 2003 Convention Chiara Bortolloto 5. Is Intangible Cultural Heritage an Anthropological Topic? Towards Interdisciplinarity in France Christian Hottin and Sylvie Grenet 6. The Impact of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention on National Policy-making: Developing a New Heritage Protection Paradigm? Janet Blake
Reality Check: The Challenges Facing ICH Safeguarding
7. From the Bottom Up: the Identification and Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Guyana Aron Mazel, Gerard Corsane, Raquel Thomas and Samantha James 8. Making the Past Pay? Intangible (Cultural) Heritage in South Africa and Mauritius Rosabelle Boswell 9. A Conversation with Yelsy Hernández Zamora on Intangible Cultural Heritage in Cuba 10. The Management of Intangible Cultural Heritage in China Tracey L-D Lu 11. Ageing Musically: Tangible Sites of Intangible Cultural Heritage Bradley Hanson 12. Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Czech Republic: Between National and Local Heritage Petr Janeček 13. Damming Ava Mezin: Challenges to Safeguarding Minority Intangible Cultural Heritage in Turkey Sarah Elliott 14. Documenting and Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: the Experience in Scotland Alison McCleery and Jared Bowers
Intangible Cultural Heritage Up Close
15. Officially Ridin’ Swangas: Slab as Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Houston, Texas Langston Collin Wilkins 16. Locating Intangible Cultural Heritage in Norway Joel Taylor 17. Intangible Cultural Heritage in India: Reflections on Selected Forms of Dance Parasmoni Dutta 18. Second-hand as Living Heritage: Intangible Dimensions of Things with History Staffan Appelgren and Anna Bohlin 19. A Conversation with Linina Phuttitarn on Safeguarding a Spiritual Festival in Thailand 20. Public Experiences and the Social Capacity of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Japan: Bingata, a Textile-Dyeing Practice from Okinawa Sumiko Sarashima 21. Stretching the Dough: Economic Resiliency and the Kinaesthetics of Food Heritage across the US-Mexico Border Maribel Alvarez
Intangible Cultural Heritage and Place
22. Refuting Timelessness: Emerging Relationships to Intangible Cultural Heritage for Younger Indigenous Australians Amanda Kearney and Gabrielle Kowalewski 23. Common Ground: Insurgence, Imagination and Intangible Cultural Heritage Jos Smith 24. Indigenous Geography and Place-Based Intangible Cultural Heritage RDK Herman 25. ‘If there’s no place to dance to it, it’s going to die’: A Conversation on the Living Tradition of Baltimore Club Music and the Importance of Place Michelle L. Stefano with Christopher Clayton and Baronhawk Poitier 26. Landscape and Intangible Cultural Heritage: Interactions, Memories and Meanings Maggie Roe
Intangible Cultural Heritage, Museums and Archives
27. Making History Tangible: POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, Warsaw Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 28. A Conversation with Clifford Murphy on Archives and Intangible Cultural Heritage 29. Bin Jelmood House: Narrating an Intangible History in Qatar Scott Cooper and Karen Exell 30. Standing in the Gap: Lumbee Cultural Preservation at the Baltimore American Indian Center Ashley Minner 31. A Conversation with Tara Gujadhur on the Traditional Arts and Ethnology Center in Laos 32. Museums and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Lusophone Countries Ana Mercedes Stoffel and Isabel Victor
Alternative Approaches to Safeguarding and Promoting Intangible Cultural Heritage
33. Safeguarding Maritime Intangible Cultural Heritage: Ecomuseum Batana, Croatia Dragana Lucija Ratković Aydemir 34. Reflections of a Heritage Professional: Intangible Cultural Heritage at the Ecomuseum of Terraces and Vineyards, Italy Donatella Murtas 35. Conveying Peruvian Intangible Heritage through Digital Environments Natalie Underberg-Goode 36. Growing Ecomuseums on the Canadian Prairies: Prospects for Intangible Cultural Heritage Glenn Sutter 37. The Intangible Made Tangible in Wales Einir M. Young, Gwenan H. Griffith, Marc Evans, S. Arwel Jones 38. A Conversation with Paula dos Santos and Marcelle Pereira on Intangible Cultural Heritage and Social and Ecological Justice
"It is a most welcome addition to literature, and a must-have for all who want to deepen their understanding of the scholarly research into and safeguarding practice of Intangible Cultural Heritage. (...) With the publication of this Routledge Companion, Intangible Cultural Heritage has certainly reached a new level of scholarly recognition. And that is a very good thing."
- Steven Engelsman, Director, Weltmuseum Wien, Austria "The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritgae provides asnapshop- or rather, a whole picture album- of the evolution of a profoundly important cultural policiy and paradigm... The editors have assembled here a massive and varied set of essays- 38 individual chapters written by 54 authors, including anthropologists, folklorists, legals scholars, museum professionals, ethomusicologists, and community members." - Michael Dylan Foster, University of California, USA
Michelle L. Stefano is a Folklife Specialist (Research and Programs) at the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC. From 2011-2016, Stefano worked for Maryland Traditions, the folklife program of the state of Maryland, of which she was its Co-Director from 2015-2016. From 2012-2016, she led the partnership between Maryland Traditions and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, where she was Visiting Assistant Professor in American Studies. She co-edited Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage (2012) with Peter Davis and Gerard Corsane.
Peter Davis is Emeritus Professor of Museology in the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies at Newcastle University, UK. He is honorary editor of Archives of Natural History , the journal of the Society for the History of Natural History, and a series editor for Heritage Matters . His research interests include the interactions between nature, culture and concepts of place and space. He has published widely on ecomuseums and intangible cultural heritage.
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The economics of uniqueness Licciardi, Guido; Amirtahmasebi, Rana
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In a world where half of the population lives in cities and more than 90 percent of urban growth is occurring in the developing world, cities struggle to modernize without completely losing their ...unique character, which is embodied by their historic cores and cultural heritage assets. As countries develop, cultural heritage can provide a crucial element of continuity and stability: the past can become a foundation for the future. This book collects innovative research papers authored by leading scholars and practitioners in heritage economics, and presents the most current knowledge on how heritage assets can serve as drivers of local economic development. What this book tries to suggest is a workable approach to explicitly take into account the cultural dimensions of urban regeneration in agglomerations that have a history and possess a unique character, going beyond an approach based solely on major cultural heritage assets or landmarks. The knowledge disseminated through this book will help stakeholders involved in preparation, implementation, and supervision of development investments to better assess the values of cultural heritage assets and incorporate them in urban development policies.
Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums…we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling ...up of historic materials in the present? How did heritage grow from the concern of a handful of enthusiasts and specialists in one part of the world to something which is considered to be universally cherished? And what concepts and approaches are necessary to understanding this global obsession?
Over the decades, since the adoption of the World Heritage Convention, various ‘crises’ of definition have significantly influenced the ways in which heritage is classified, perceived and managed in contemporary global societies. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the many tangible and intangible ‘things’ now defined as heritage, this book attempts simultaneously to account for this global phenomenon and the industry which has grown up around it, as well as to develop a ‘toolkit of concepts’ with which it might be studied. In doing so, it provides a critical account of the emergence of heritage studies as an interdisciplinary field of academic study. This is presented as part of a broader examination of the function of heritage in late modern societies, with a particular focus on the changes which have resulted from the globalisation of heritage during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Developing new theoretical approaches and innovative models for more dialogically democratic heritage decision making processes, Heritage: Critical Approaches unravels the relationship between heritage and the experience of late modernity, whilst reorienting heritage so that it might be more productively connected with other pressing social, economic, political and environmental issues of our time.
Rodney Harrison is a Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He has a broad range of experience teaching, researching and working across the fields of cultural and natural heritage management in the UK, Australia and North America. Prior to his current position, he worked for the Open University, where he was responsible for teaching, research and public broadcasting in global heritage studies.
List of Figures List of Tables Preface and Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Heritage everywhere 2. Some definitions: Heritage, modernity, materiality 3. Prehistories of World Heritage: The emergence of a concept 4. Late modernity and the heritage ‘boom’ 5. Critical heritage studies and the discursive turn 6. Intangible heritage and cultural landscapes 7. Heritage, diversity and human rights 8. Heritage and the ‘problem’ of memory 9. Dialogical heritage and sustainability 10. A future for the past? Notes References Index
Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national,
geographical, and historical contexts. This volume is unique in
that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage
through the ...concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest
developments in the field of social movements, the chapters examine
the formation, use and contestation of heritage by various
official, non-official and activist players and the spaces where
such ongoing negotiations and contestation take place. By bringing
social movements into heritage studies, the book advocates a shift
of perspective in understanding heritage, one that is no longer
bound by (at times arbitrary) divisions such as those assumed
between the state and people or between experts and
non-experts.
In 1978, UNESCO Secretary General Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow compared cultural colonial objects to ‘witnesses to history’. Their treatment is one of the most debated questions of our time. Calls for a novel ...international cultural order go back to decolonization. However, for decades, the issue has been treated as a matter of comity or been reduced to a Shakespearean dilemma: to return or not to return. This book seeks to go beyond these classic dichotomies. It argues that contemporary practices are at a tipping point. It shows that cultural takings were material to the colonial project throughout different periods (early takings, birth of modern nation state, nineteenth-century scramble for objects) and went far beyond looting. It relies on micro histories and object biographies to trace recurring justifications and contestations of takings and returns, and the complicity of anthropology, racial science, and professional networks in colonial collecting. It demonstrates the dual role of law and cultural heritage regulation in enabling colonial injustices, and mobilizing resistance thereto. It challenges the argument that takings were acceptable according to the standards of the time. Drawing on the interplay between justice, ethics, and human rights, it develops a theory of entanglement to rethink contemporary approaches. It shows that future engagement requires a reinvention of knowledge systems and relations towards objects, including new forms of consent, provenance research, partnership and a rethinking of the role of museums themselves. It proposes principles of relational cultural justice to confront ongoing historic, legal, and economic entanglements and enable normative transformation.
