Description
Communities and Cultural Heritage explores the relationship between communities, their cultural heritage and the global forces that control most of the world’s wealth and resources in today’s world.
Bringing together scholars and heritage practitioners from nine countries, this book contributes to the ongoing dialogue on community heritage by analysing impediments to full community participation. The underminin of local communities comes at a high price. As the chapters in this book demonstrate, the knowledge embedded within traditional and Indigenous heritage creates communities that are more resilient to environmental and social stressors and more responsive to contemporary challenges such as climate change, environmental degradation, post-disaster recovery and relocation. Cultural heritage practices often fail to capitalise upon local knowledge and traditional skills and undervalue the potential contribution of local communities in finding creative and resourceful solutions to the issues they are confronting.
Arguing that the creation of successful community heritage project requires ongoing reflection on the aims, methods, financing and acceptable outcomes of projects, the volume also demonstrates that the decolonization of Western-focussed heritage practices is an ongoing process, by which subaltern groups are brought forward and given a space in the heritage narrative.
Reflecting on trends that impact communities and heritage sites across different geographical regions, Communities and Cultural Heritage will be of interest to academics, students and practitioners of cultural heritage,archaeology and anthropology around the world.
Table of Contents
Preface Valerie Higgins, Diane Douglas and George Smith1. Communities in Heritage: Global Issues, Local ValuesValerie Higgins and Diane DouglasSection 1: The Power of Living Heritage2. Cultural Heritage, Empowerment and the Social Transformation of Local Communities Fekri Hassan3. Defining ‘Heritage Communities’ in an Age of Migration: Urban Youths’ Narratives of TranslocalityKaja Hannedatter Sontum 4. Agricultural Heritage Systems, their Resilience and Climate Smart CommunitiesParviz Koohafkan and Thomas L. Price5. Historic Heritage Sites and Depopulation: Cities without CitizensValerie Higgins6. Identifying Local Communities’ Resilience and Power to Build Sustainable Futures: “Democracy starts here”Ibrahima Thiaw7. Local Craft Knowledge and Heritage-making in the Aftermath of a Capacity-building Project in Southern Africa: Who are the locals?Per Ditlef Fredriksen and Foreman Bandama8. Valuing and Protecting the Past in Contemporary SocietyGeorge S. Smith9. Archaeology, Communities, and Economic Development: A Pandora’s BoxK.Anne PyburnSection 2: Vertical and Horizontal Management of Resources10. Realities and Requisites in Community-based Heritage ManagementPeter G. Gould11. Cultural Heritage Stewardship: Challenges and New Approaches for an Uncertain FutureArlene K. Fleming 12. Tourism and Sustainability in the Historic City of Rome: Challenge or Threat?Barbara Staniscia13. Heritage Preservation and Indigenous Communities in the United StatesJoe Watkins 14. Local Engagement in Public-Private Partnerships for Heritage ManagementWilliam H. Jansen Section 3: Natural Hazards: Managing Heritage in the Face of Climate change and Natural Disasters 15. Understanding how Indigenous Knowledge can Contribute to Mitigating Global Climate Change: Seeing the forest and the treesDiane L. Douglas16. Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage through Community EngagementRohit Jigyasu17. People-centered Cultural Heritage First Aid: From Response to ResilienceAparna TandonEpilogueChristopher Prescott
