Will Heritage Save Us? - Intangible Cultural Heritage and the Sustainable Development Turn

"Drawing on extensive ethnographic engagement with the social world of the UNESCO Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage, this Element explores the mainstreaming of sustainable development principles in the heritage field"--

List of contents

Introduction: ICH, endangerment, and prospective loss; 1. ICH as an object of change; 2. ICH as an object for change; 3. The sustainabilization of heritage; 4. Diversity and standardization; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Chiara Bortolotto, Chiara (Centre National De La Recherch Bortolotto, Chiara (Cy Cergy Paris University) Bortolotto
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2025
• EAN: 9781009509107
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0950910-7
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Critical Heritage Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology, History and Archaeology, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies