Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage Perspectives from the Margins of Europe

Introduction: Intangible cultural heritage at the margins of Europe

Laura Hodsdon, Kadri Koreinik, Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar, and Valts Ernštreits

Part I CONTEXT

1.       Revoicing intangible cultural heritage

Laura Hodsdon

2.       ‘By the community, for the community’: Boundary narratives, boundary work, and intangible cultural heritage

Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar, Bridget Moran-Nae, and Laura Hodsdon

3.       Heritage discourse and voices of change

Kadri Koreinik and Laura Hodsdon

Part II ANALYSES

Voices

4.       ‘Torches aloft’ to Glastonbury: The discursive construction of heritage events in Cornwall

Laura Hodsdon and Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar

5.         Intangible cultural heritage as a tool for sustaining language: A Livonian case study

Valts Ernštreits, Gunta Kļava, Anita Vaivade, Ieva Vītola, Lolita Ozoliņa, Karl Pajusalu, and Uldis Balodis

6.       ‘You get an upgrade in Frisian’: Processes of identity formation and negotiation around Frisian theatre

Antine Zijlstra, Berber Aardema, and Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar

Spaces

7.         What is the post-industrial rural for? Intangible cultural heritage, rural world-making, and core-periphery imaginaries

Joanie Willett

8.       Revoicing Livonian cultural landscapes on opposite sides of the Gulf of Rīga

Ieva Vītola, Lolita Ozoliņa, Laura Hodsdon, Kadri Koreinik, and Anita Vaivade

9.       Taking up space: Physical and affective geographies of intangible cultural heritage events

Lucy Frears and Laura Hodsdon

Negotiations

10.   Rules of engagement at intangible cultural heritage events

Laura Hodsdon, Lolita Ozoliņa, and Antine Zijlstra

11.   The filmmakers’ gaze: Navigating the zone of cultural osmosis in capturing heritage events

Denzil Monk, Felicity Tattersall, and Barbara Santi

12.   Negotiations and co-creations in the resourcing of intangible cultural heritage events

Natalie Semley and Laura Hodsdon

Part III FUTURES

13.   Revoicing beyond Europe? Conversations in global contexts

Ayano Ginoza, Pania Te Maro, and Brian Tweed in conversation with Laura Hodsdon

14.     Revoicing cultural landscapes: Towards resilient intangible cultural heritage and positive social relations

Laura Hodsdon, Valts Ernštreits, Sjoerd-Jeroen Moenandar, and Kadri Koreinik

Biography

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 Ernštreits 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.