Theory and practice in heritage and sustainability : between past and future / edited by Elizabeth Auclair and Graham Fairclough

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Series: Routledge studies in culture and sustainable development | Routledge studies in culture and sustainable developmentPublication details: London : Routledge, 2015Edition: 1st edDescription: xvii, 218 pISBN:

9781138778900 (hardback)

Summary: 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. (Font: Editor)

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC Sala	General	S 01646	Available		1900107783

List of figures and tables -- List of contributors -- COST statement -- series introduction by Katriina Soini and Joost Dessein -- Living between past and future: an introduction to heritage and cultural sustainability / Elizabeth Auclair, Graham Fairclough -- Part 1. Equity, Inclusion, Citizenship: 1. Ordinary heritage, participation and social cohesion in suburban towns / Elizabeth auclair ; 2. 'Keeping it real': Social sustainability in the Homeless Heritage project in Bristol and York (UK) / Rachael Kiddey, John Schofield ; 3. The burden of history: Living heritage and everyday life in Rome / Anna Laura Palazzo, Antonio Pugliano ; 4. Remembering cities: The role of memory in the culturally sustainable development of Dubrovnik (Croatia) / Anka Misetic, Sara Ursic ; 5. The challenge of cultural sustainability in city museums: Showing the city and selecting past in Noyon (France) / Anne Hertzog ; 6. Social sustainability in historic city centres: The Grand Place in Brussels / Maria Leuz, Leen Kosatka -- Part 2. Construction, Recovery, Resilience: 7. Language revitalisation, sonic activism and cultural sustainability: Voicing linguistic heritage on Jersey / Henry Johnson ; 8. Heritage resurrection: German heritage in the Southern Baltic cities / Mariusz Czepczynski, Michal Czepczynski ; 9. Sustainability through alteration: Eastern Baltic manors in the Estonian tradition / Tonu Viik, Linda Kaljundi, Anu Printsmann, Hannes Palang ; 10. The potential space for cultural sustainability: Place narratives and place-heritage in Rjukan (Norway) / Inger Birkeland ; 11. Politics, tourism and cultural sustainability: The construction of heritage in Cyprus / Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert, Nikolaos Boukas, Alexandra Bounia ; 12. From dissonance to resilience: The heritage of Belgrade's staro sajmiste / Nevena Dakovic, Ljiljana Rogac Mijatovic, Mirjana Nikolic ; 13. Aftermath or futures: Concluding thoughts / elizabeth Auclair, Graham Fairclough -- Index

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