Full Description
This Research Handbook explores contemporary intangible cultural heritage (ICH) from the perspectives of both law and heritage. It questions, probes and interrogates many different aspects of contemporary ICH, including the definitions and legal frameworks designed to safeguard it. In doing so the Research Handbook highlights not only gaps and inconsistencies, but also questions the relevance, of the legal framework as it applies to ICH itself.
Each chapter is concerned with a different aspect of contemporary ICH, international treaties and the law, including the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. A diverse range of contemporary examples are explored, ranging from the local and global identity of migrant children, to language and the Berlin techno music scene. Taken collectively, and with its focus on ''contemporary'' culture, this Handbook is a departure from the established discourse that tends to include some forms of heritage to the exclusion of others. The authors challenge the authority of existing legal instruments, expose their limitations and propose innovative ways in which contemporary forms of ICH can be safeguarded, whether via the law or other means.
This innovative Handbook will be of great interest to academics researching the legal protection of ICH and the relationship between ICH, human rights, communities, identity and international trade. Those with an interest in the protection of a-typical intellectual property will also find this Handbook to be a source of valuable information.
Contributors include: L. Belder, J. Blake, M. Blakely, A. Brown, J. Brown, N. Chipangura, L. Colomer, C. Cummings, Y. Donders, H. Enright, A. Figaroa, S. Harding, L. Lixinski, F. Macmillan, M. Pavis, J. Schofield, V. Vadi, J. van Donkersgoed, A. Vavaide, C. Waelde
Contents
Contents:
Introduction to the Research Handbook on Contemporary Intangible Cultural Heritage
Charlotte Waelde, Catherine Cummings, Mathilde Pavis and Helena Enright
Part I The Framework of Contemporary Intangible Cultural Heritage
1. Regional and International Treaties on Intangible Cultural Heritage: Between Tradition and Contemporary Culture
Lucas Lixinski
2. Contemporary ICH: Between Community and Market
Fiona Macmillan
3. Protection and Promotion of Cultural Heritage and Human Rights though International Treaties: Two Worlds of Difference?
Yvonne Donders
4. Contemporary ICH and the Right to Exclude
Sarah Harding
Part II Debates Within Contemporary Intangible Cultural Heritage
5. ICH, Cultural Diversity and Sustainable Development
Abbe E. L. Brown
6. ICH and Human Rights: ICH, Contemporary Culture and Human Rights
Charlotte Waelde
7. ICH as a Source of Identity: International Law and Deontology
Anita Vaivade
8. ICH and Identity: the use of ICH Among Global Multicultural Citizens
Laia Colomer
9. ICH and Authority: Lawless 'DIY' Approaches to Contemporary ICH
John Schofield
10. ICH and Authority: The Welsh Language and Statutory Change
Megan Rae Blakely
11. ICH and Safeguarding: Legal Dimensions of Safeguarding the ICH of Non-dominant and Counter-Culture Social Groups
Janet Blake
12. ICH and safeguarding: Museums and Contemporary ICH (Let the Objects out of their Cases and Make them Sing)
Catherine Cummings
13. ICH and Safeguarding: Uncovering the Cultural Heritage Discourse of Copyright
Mathilde Pavis
Part III Contemporary Intangible Cultural Heritage and its Uses
14. Living Cultural Heritage in the Netherlands: the Debate on the Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas
Lucky Belder and Aydan Figaroa
15. ICH as the Prime Asset of a Cultural Landscape and Seascape: A Case Study of the Banda Islands, Indonesia
Joëlla van Donkersgoed and Jessica Brown
16. Cultural Heritage Sites and Contemporary Uses: Finding a Balance between Monumentality and Intangibility in Eastern Zimbabwe
Njabulo Chipangura
17. ICH and Trade
Valentina Vadi
Index
