Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability

Between past and future

Elizabeth Auclair, Graham Fairclough (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

218 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-77890-0 (ISBN)

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This book explores cultural sustainability and its relationships to heritage from a wide interdisciplinary perspective. By examining the interactions between people and communities in the places where they live it exemplifies the diverse ways in which a people-centred heritage builds identities and supports individual and collective memories. It encourages a view of heritage as a process that contributes through cultural sustainability to human well-being and socially- and culturally-sensitive policy.

With theoretically-informed case studies from leading researchers, the book addresses both concepts and practice, in a range of places and contexts including landscape, townscape, museums, industrial sites, every day heritage, ‘ordinary’ places and the local scene, and even UNESCO-designated sites. The contributors, most of whom, like the editors, were members of the COST Action ‘Investigating Cultural Sustainability’, demonstrate in a cohesive way how the cultural values that people attach to place are enmeshed with issues of memory, identity and aspiration and how they therefore stand at the centre of sustainability discourse and practice. The cases are drawn from many parts of Europe, but notably from the Baltic, and central and south-eastern Europe, regions with distinctive recent histories and cultural approaches and heritage discourses that offer less well-known but transferable insights. They all illustrate the contribution that dealing with the inheritance of the past can make to a full cultural engagement with sustainable development.

The book provides an introductory framework to guide readers, and a concluding section that draws on the case studies to emphasise their transferability and specificity, and to outline the potential contribution of the examples to future research, practice and policy in cultural sustainability. This is a unique offering for postgraduate students, researchers and professionals interested in heritage management, governance and community participation and cultural sustainability.

Elizabeth Auclair is Assistant Professor in the geography department at Cergy-Pontoise University, France, where she is director of a Master’s degree on cultural development and heritage valorization. Graham Fairclough is a Principal Research Associate in the McCord Centre for Historic and Cultural Landscape in Newcastle University, UK, having previously worked for English Heritage (one of the UK’s national heritage agencies) and its predecessors until 2012.

Living between past and futre: An introduction to heritage and cultural sustainability Part 1 Equity, Inclusion, Citizenship 1. Ordinary heritage, participation and social cohesion in suburban towns 2. 'Keeping it real': Social sustainability in the Homeless Heritage project in Bristol and York (UK) 3. The burden of history: Living heritage and everyday life in Rome 4. Remembering cities: The role of memory in the culturally sustainable development of Dubrovnik (Croatia) 5. The challenge of cultural sustainability in city museums: Showing the city and selecting past in Noyon (France) 6. Social sustainability in historic city centres: The Grand Place in Brussels Part 2 Construction, Recovery, Resilience 7. Language revitalisation, sonic activism and cultural sustainability: Voicing linguistic heritage on Jersey 8. Heritage resurrection: German heritage in the Southern Baltic cities 9. Sustainability through alteration: Eastern Baltic manors in the Estonian tradition 10. The potential space for cultural sustainability: Place narratives and place-heritage in Rjukan (Norway) 11. Politics, tourism and cultural sustainability: The construction of heritage in Cyprus 12. From dissonance to resilience: The heritage of Belgrade's staro sajmiste 13. Aftermath or futures: Concluding thoughts

Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Culture and Sustainable Development
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white; 3 Line drawings, black and white; 30 Halftones, black and white; 33 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	476 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Reisen ► Reiseführer ► Europa
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
	Technik ► Architektur
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-138-77890-7 / 1138778907
ISBN-13	978-1-138-77890-0 / 9781138778900
Zustand	Neuware