Description
1. The book focuses on the interconnections between Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and Sustainable Development (SD), to demonstrate that the ICH Convention is currently at a crucial crossroads.
2. The book will be of interest to academics and students working in heritage studies, development studies, anthropology, archaeology, international law, political science, international relations and sociology.
3. The proposed book will be the first to focus on ICH and its relationship with SD.
Table of Contents
The rise of sustainable development in the convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage PART I The international legal and policy framework: sustainability as a political and moral imperative 1 Sustainable development and human rights in safeguarding ICH: positive goals or an internal contradiction? 2 The reorientation of a convention: UNESCO, intangible heritage, and sustainable development 3 How and why the SDGs entered the paradigm of safeguarding intangible heritage: the “Sixth Chapter” PART II Ownership, intellectual property, commons 4 Ownership and rights: sustainable development ideals with inequalities of recognition and resource management 5 Misappropriation, intellectual property, and ethics 6 Governing intangible cultural heritage commons PART III Negotiating inclusiveness 7 No sustainability without materiality: complex paths to good practices in Switzerland 8 Safeguarding the intangible heritage of Indigenous peoples: a conceptual distance in intergovernmental discourses PART IV Intangible cultural heritage economics:decontextualization, precarity, and entrepreneurship
9 Decontextualization from UNESCO to China: the embarrassment and empowerment of economic uses of intangible cultural heritage 10 Intangible cultural heritage, sustainability, and the COVID-19 in Marrakech11 Popular music and heritage embarrassment in Brazil
