Co-Constructing Digital Archiving Practices for Community Heritage Preservation in Egypt and Iraq

2021 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-96
Author(s):  
James Baker ◽  
Sofya Shahab ◽  
Mariz Tadros
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Digital Archiving ◽  
Training Support ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Community Heritage

Abstract We document cultural heritage to preserve cultural heritage, to ensure its survival by pushing back against the entropic forces of forgetting and neglect. These entropic forces are particularly acute for intangible cultural heritage preserved in digital form and produced in fragile and conflict-affected settings. And whilst professionals from across the “memory” professions have responded to these challenges, based on our experience of development work with young people in Egypt and Iraq, they have done so in ways that are ill-suited to the worldviews, cultural practices, educational experience and learning models of those outside centres of archival power. This paper describes the delivery of “digital archiving” workshops, training, support and resources developed by an interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral collective of academics, practitioners, community leaders and community participants. Working at the intersection of development studies, heritage management and digital preservation, this paper argues that cultural heritage practices are enriched by foregrounding particular place-based and contingent activities that productively peel back the provincialism of the canons of enlightenment memory work.

scholarly journals Intangible cultural heritage: a benefit to climate-displaced and host communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gül Aktürk ◽  
Martha Lerski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Action Planning ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Resilient Communities

AbstractClimate change is borderless, and its impacts are not shared equally by all communities. It causes an imbalance between people by creating a more desirable living environment for some societies while erasing settlements and shelters of some others. Due to floods, sea level rise, destructive storms, drought, and slow-onset factors such as salinization of water and soil, people lose their lands, homes, and natural resources. Catastrophic events force people to move voluntarily or involuntarily. The relocation of communities is a debatable climate adaptation measure which requires utmost care with human rights, ethics, and psychological well-being of individuals upon the issues of discrimination, conflict, and security. As the number of climate-displaced populations grows, the generations-deep connection to their rituals, customs, and ancestral ties with the land, cultural practices, and intangible cultural heritage become endangered. However, intangible heritage is often overlooked in the context of climate displacement. This paper presents reflections based on observations regarding the intangible heritage of voluntarily displaced communities. It begins by examining intangible heritage under the threat of climate displacement, with place-based examples. It then reveals intangible heritage as a catalyst to building resilient communities by advocating for the cultural values of indigenous and all people in climate action planning. It concludes the discussion by presenting the implications of climate displacement in existing intangible heritage initiatives. This article seeks to contribute to the emerging policies of preserving intangible heritage in the context of climate displacement.

scholarly journals Cultural rights and “Masterpieces” of Local and Translocal Actors

Ethnologies ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 297-324
Author(s):  
Hélène Giguère
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Mediterranean Area ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Rights ◽  
Social Divisions

This paper deals with European experiences of inscription of traditional cultural practices on UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). It will first establish the institutional context of the UNESCO’s listing within the framework of reflections on cultural rights. Then, the author briefly presents four European masterpieces in the Mediterranean area. A comparative analysis follows which specifically focuses on the multiplication of practitioners and on translocality; on the overlapping between institutions and artisans; on the use of intangible cultural heritage as a driver for local development via cultural tourism; and on the multimedia “museification” of the intangible. The comparative study of the listing of these intangible cultural heritage traditions also questions the value of customary law versus freedom of expression and creation. It reveals the tensions between the “purity” and “impurity” of cultural practices and social agents, as well as exclusions related to ethnicity, sex or territory. These tensions create new social divisions and remodel the link people have with cultural practices. An examination of gender sheds light on the marginality of women in public space.

scholarly journals Strengthening the Capacity of Partnership-Based Cultural Heritage Management to Increase Tourism Visits

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Titi Darmi ◽  
Iqbal Miftakhul Mujtahid ◽  
Ledyawati Ledyawati
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Classification Analysis ◽  
Cultural Heritage Management ◽  
The City ◽  
Cultural Heritage Preservation

This article discusses the extent to which Cultural Heritage management involving various sectors can contribute to increasing tourist visits. The research was conducted in the city of Bengkulu, the location of the research was the legacy of Bung Karno's house. Data collection was carried out through secondary data and primary data. Primary data was carried out by interviewing related parties, namely two of Bung Karno's house staff, the Head of the Jambi Cultural Heritage Preservation Agency (BPCB), the Head of the Bengkulu Province Education Office, one cultural expert, four tourism activists, and six communities. members who were visiting Bung Karno's house. The steps in this research are data collection, classification, analysis, and data processing, making conclusions, then narrating in depth. The results of the study explain that the Heritage of Bung Karno's House is one of the historical tourist objects visited by many tourists. Bung Karno's heirloom house is a historical tourism object that has an attraction and has an important role in increasing tourist visits. For optimal Cultural Heritage management, it is important to strengthen the capacity of Cultural heritage management sustainably by optimizing technology and involving five partnership sectors, namely government, private sector, universities, media, and society. 

PRINCIPLES OF DIGITALIZATION FOR THE CULTURAL HERITAGE PRESERVATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 8-18
Author(s):  
Natalia V. Lopatina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Digital Development ◽  
Applied Informatics ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
Coordination Principle ◽  
Organizational Principles ◽  
Cultural Heritage Preservation

The paper sets a scientific problem of updating the theoretical foundations for digitalization of the cultural heritage preservation. It carries out an analysis of modern risks that determine the need to modernize approaches to the preservation of cultural heritage and presents the levels, approaches, and tools for preserving cultural heritage in the context of digital transformation of cultural development and cultural practices. The tasks and key areas of applied informatics in culture related to the digitalization of cultural heritage preservation are specified. Principles of digitalization for the cultural heritage preservation are presented in four groups: technological principles, organizational principles, specialized principles of sectoral digitalization, principles of the digitalization projects effectiveness. The group of technological principles includes the compliance with standards, scalability of the applied methods and solutions, and the dialectics principle of universal and professionally oriented IT solutions. The group of organizational principles includes the unity principle for the digital space of culture, the coordination principle for the digitalization of cultural heritage preservation, and the principle of strategic unity. Specialized principles of sectoral digitalization are highlighted due to the nature of economic and digital development in the cultural sphere. The effectiveness principles for the digitalization projects determine the feasibility of investing to digitalization for the cultural heritage preservation. Digitalization of cultural heritage is a combination of new IT solutions, new design of the cultural information space, new relationships in the professional and social environment, and new economic models.

Cultural Heritage Preservation in a Modernizing Africa

2019 ◽  
pp. 28-47
Author(s):  
Floribert Patrick C. Endong
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Cultural Factor ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Cultural Heritage Preservation

Cultural heritage preservation is a sine qua non for the effective technological, scientific, and economic development of nations across the world. This follows the theory stating that culture is life and that there is a cultural factor in technological development. In view of this truism, most African states and social institutions have these last years embarked on multifaceted tactics aimed at heritage conservation in their respective national territories. These preservation efforts have yielded only patchy fruits as they are confronted to the forces of modernism and globalization. Thus, modernism and globalization have continued to represent big threats to heritage preservation in many African countries. This chapter illustrates this thesis through a comparative study of cultural heritage management in Cameroon and Nigeria. The chapter begins by examining the extent to which heritage preservation is feasible in an era governed by modernism and globalization before exploring similarities and differences in the ways modernism and globalization affect heritage preservation in Nigeria and Cameroon.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document