1st Edition
Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development Inside a UNESCO Convention
Introduction: The rise of sustainable development in the convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage
Chiara Bortolotto and Ahmed Skounti
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?
Janet Blake
2 The reorientation of a convention: UNESCO, intangible heritage, and sustainable development
Rieks Smeets
3 How and why the SDGs entered the paradigm of safeguarding intangible heritage: the “Sixth Chapter”
Marc Jacobs
PART II Ownership, intellectual property, commons
4 Ownership and rights: sustainable development ideals with inequalities of recognition and resource management
Kristin Kuutma
5 Misappropriation, intellectual property, and ethics
Benedetta Ubertazzi
6 Governing intangible cultural heritage commons
Hanna Schreiber
PART III Negotiating inclusiveness
7 No sustainability without materiality: complex paths to good practices in Switzerland
Julien Vuilleumier and Ellen Hertz
8 Safeguarding the intangible heritage of Indigenous peoples: a conceptual distance in intergovernmental discourses
Anita Vaivade
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
Chiara Bortolotto and Philipp Demgenski
10 Intangible cultural heritage, sustainability, and the COVID-19 in Marrakech
Ahmed Skounti and Aba Sadki
11 Popular music and heritage embarrassment in Brazil
Carlos Sandroni
Biography
Chiara Bortolotto holds UNESCO Chair in Intangible Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development at CY Cergy Paris University.
Ahmed Skounti is Professor of anthropology and heritage at the National Institute of Archaeology and Heritage Sciences (INSAP), Morocco.
