scholarly journals Consent, agreement, communities and holders: the issue of social participation in the field of cultural heritage and the dialogue between the Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Heritage and the intangible heritage policy of Brazil

2021 ◽  
pp. 77-86
Author(s):  
Simone Toji
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Participation ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
Cultural Policies ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Unesco Convention ◽  
Heritage Policy

This article considers some modes of activation and operationalization of the idea of social participation in the field of intangible cultural heritage. It regards the newest proposal of operating participation established by the UNESCO Convention on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage and the experience of its implementation in Brazil. By analyzing how the issue of participation was developed through dialogue between the international and national levels, the paper also shows how the emergence of categories of social actors such as “communities” and “bearers” has been consolidated within the mentioned intangible cultural policies.

scholarly journals The American Folklore Society-China Folklore Society Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage Project, 2013-2016

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Kurt Dewhurst ◽  
Timothy Lloyd
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
The United States ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
American Folklore ◽  
Henry Luce ◽  
Heritage Policy

Emphasizing its museum-focused sub-project, this report describes the second phase of the China-US Folklore and Intangible Cultural Heritage Project (2013-2016). Supported by the Henry Luce Foundation, the larger project links these two national scholarly societies in a program of professional exchanges, scholarly meetings, and joint inquiry around issues of intangible cultural heritage policy and practice. The museum sub-project has included joint exhibition development work, travel to local communities in the United States and in Southwest China, and other collaborative initiatives. This report describes the project's history, funding, outcomes, and some lessons learned.

scholarly journals Safeguarding. A key dispositif of UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Arantes
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
The Political ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Turbulent Process ◽  
Heritage Policy

Abstract The expression ‘safeguarding intangible cultural heritage’ was formed within the context of transformations in the instruments and strategies for protecting cultural elements usually designated ‘folklore and traditional (and popular) culture’.1 The adoption of a ‘cultural heritage approach’ to this subject was a somewhat turbulent process that drew, since the mid-twentieth century, a winding path of dialogues with, and divergences from, common sense notions and mainstream preservationist culture. Throughout this process, political and conceptual possibilities for social engineering were envisaged, some were discarded, choices were legitimized and, no less importantly, networks were formed of agents and narrators of the political and legal negotiations that eventually lead to designing UNESCO ICH Convention as officially adopted. This path will be explored in the following comments on the formation of safeguarding as a cultural heritage policy dispositive2 and significant contrasts to other instruments, in relation to which it has acquired specificity, meaning and scope.

Curatorial Conversations

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Representation ◽  
Cultural Pluralism ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
International Recognition ◽  
Cultural Democracy ◽  
Heritage Policy ◽  
First Time ◽  
Over Time

Since its origins in 1967, The Smithsonian Folklife Festival has gained national and international recognition as a model for the research and public presentation of living cultural heritage and the advocacy of cultural democracy. Festival curators play a major role in interpreting Festival principles and shaping its practices. Curatorial Conversations brings together for the first time in one volume the combined expertise of Festival curatorial staff—past and present—in examining the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage’s cultural heritage representation practices and their critical implications for issues of intangible cultural heritage policy, cultural pluralism, and identity. This volume represents the first concerted project by Festival staff curators to systematically examine institutional principles and philosophical underpinnings and claims as they have evolved over time, and to address broader debates on cultural representation from their own experiences at the Festival.

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