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Practitioner Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage provides an accessible introduction to the Intangible Cultural Heritage field. Summarising the major changes that have taken place over the last two decades, the book explores ongoing debates and changes in thinking about best practice. Drawing on the author’s own experience of operationalising the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in a variety of contexts, Orr also incorporates international case studies from practitioners and provides valuable insights about best practices. Demonstrating that the top-down, state-driven hierarchy for the safeguarding of heritage is starting to shift to a mo...
This anthology of seminal texts documents the development of the post-war anti-Soviet Ukrainian dissident movement. The collection is designed to introduce, via some crucial primary sources, Western and other non-Ukrainian readers to various forms of Ukrainian opposition to the communist regime. Stories of ideas and personal undertakings are unfolding before the reader in a vivid pulsation of texts that testify for themselves. The anthology gathers contributions from different genres. They range from poetry, public speeches, and samvydav—uncensored, self-published—texts to court speeches. They come from dissidents who were held in jails, special psychiatric hospitals (for not accepting t...
Globalisation trends have increased the transnational flows of cultural goods, media products and information, as well as human transnational migration. This publication considers how these developments are leading to greater and more complex patterns of diversity which are transnational and transcultural in nature, functioning across national frontiers and therefore creating new challenges for national policy frameworks, as well as for the role of the Council of Europe in this new transnational policy landscape.
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Aquest llibre inaugura la col·lecció de la Cà tedra Antoni Miró d’Art Contemporani. Aquesta col·lecció vol contribuir a l’estudi i la difusió de l’art, especialment de l’à mbit de creació més pròxim. En aquest sentit, volem apropar a la societat en general la labor artÃstica d’uns professionals compromesos amb la societat que els envolta. Aquesta primera publicació del professor Romà de la Calle n’és un bon exemple. Dià legs entre les imatges i les paraules. Estudis al voltant de setze artistes de les comarques del sud del PaÃs Valencià és una bona mostra del que pot arribar a representar l’art avui en dia, perquè, tal i com diu l’autor del llibre «l’art Ã...
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