Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development: Inside a UNESCO Convention (Key Issues in Cultural Heritage)

By: Chiara Bortolotto and Ahmed Skounti

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Synopsis: Drawing on debates about intangible cultural heritage (ICH) safeguarding at the local and international levels, Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development: Inside a UNESCO Convention, explores the theoretical and practical implications of the intertwinement between these policy fields. Considering how sustainable development (SD) priorities are influencing representations of ICH, the volume questions how they are expanding the frontiers of the heritage realm and unsettling accepted understandings of the social uses of heritage. The contributing authors, who hail from a variety of different contexts and disciplinary backgrounds, explore these issues from a unique vantage point as both scholars and actors of the processes they analyze. Playing different roles in the implementation of the Convention, their positioning as insiders allows for a unique analytical perspective that is based on first-hand engagement with the practices of the Convention. Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development: Inside a UNESCO Convention sheds light on the complexity, potential, and consequences of combining ICH and SD at the policy-making level and in heritage practices on the ground. It will be of interest to academics and students working in heritage studies, development studies, anthropology, archaeology, international law, political science, international relations, and sociology.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781003825197
Related ISBNs:: 9781003244158, 9781032154336, 9781032154343
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 12/19/23
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Chiara Bortolotto and Ahmed Skounti
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Business and Finance, Earth Sciences
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Chiara Bortolotto
Edited by:: Ahmed Skounti