Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage

Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage draws upon an original, wide-ranging dataset to show that the dynamics and ethics of participation in European national minority cultures' intangible cultural heritage (ICH) are more nuanced than has previously been articulated.

Autorentext

Laura Hodsdon is Associate Professor in Heritage, Culture & Society at Falmouth University. She was Project Leader of the Re:voice project and its UK Principal Investigator. Her research focuses on heritage and landscapes, with particular interests in social justice and how different people engage with heritage.

Valts Erntreits is Director of the University of Latvia Livonian Institute, Culture Policy Advisor to the Minister of Culture of the Republic of Latvia, and was Latvia Principal Investigator for Re:voice. Being Livonian himself, he has been involved in Livonian revitalisation efforts, and his research interests include building digital resources and developing approaches for the research, safeguarding, and accessibility of Livonian language and cultural sources, as well as lexicography, language standardisation, and intangible heritage.

Kadri Koreinik is Associate Professor of Language Sociology at the Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics at the University of Tartu, and was Re:voice's Estonia Principal Investigator. With a background and training in social sciences, she is interested in extralinguistic factors (ideologies, policies, migration) which have impacts on (socio)linguistic and social change.

Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar is Assistant Professor at the Minorities & Multilingualism programme at the University of Groningen and led the Frisian Re:voice team. He is a narratologist and has a special interest in how storytelling is used to create individual and collective identities.

Klappentext

Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage draws upon an original, wide-ranging dataset to show that the dynamics and ethics of participation in European national minority cultures' intangible cultural heritage (ICH) are more nuanced than has previously been articulated.

Inhalt

Introduction: Intangible cultural heritage at the margins of Europe; Part I CONTEXTS; 1. Revoicing intangible cultural heritage; 2. 'By the community, for the community': Boundary narratives, boundary work, and intangible cultural heritage; 3. Heritage discourse and voices of change; Part II ANALYSES; Voices; 4. 'Torches aloft' to Glastonbury: the discursive construction of heritage events in Cornwall; 5. Intangible cultural heritage as a tool for sustaining language: a Livonian case study; 6. 'You get an upgrade in Frisian'. Processes of identity formation and negotiation around Frisian theatre; Spaces; 7. What is the post-industrial rural for? Intangible cultural heritage, rural world-making and core-periphery imaginaries; 8. Revoicing Livonian cultural landscapes on opposite sides of the Gulf of R ga; 9. Taking up space: physical and affective geographies of intangible cultural heritage events; Negotiations; 10. Rules of engagement at intangible cultural heritage events; 11. The filmmakers' gaze: navigating the zone of cultural osmosis in capturing heritage events; 12. Negotiations and co-creations in the resourcing of intangible cultural heritage s: Towards resilient intangible cultural heritage and positive social relationsevents; Part III FUTURES; 13. Revoicing beyond Europe? Conversations in global contexts; 14. Revoicing cultural landscape