PROF. MARIA TERESA MILICIA
The course unit Space, Cities and Development 2023-2024 has been renamed COMMUNITY, LOCALITY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE.
The content of the new course concerns the process of heritage-making which communities perform within the safeguarding cultural policy of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization).
"Transhumance, the seasonal droving of livestock along migratory routes in the Mediterranean and in the Alps" is the case study I selected to provide a deeper understanding of the key notion of Intangible Heritage.
In 2003, the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage represented a landmark shifting from the eurocentric notion of monumental heritage, fixed in an enclosed space/time, to a more inclusive grid of classification thus focusing on living cultural practices of local communities traditions.
This course adopts critical and constructivist approach to cultural heritage. The primary aim is to critically explore the ways in wich cultural identity discourses and practices are performed within UNESCO and heritage communities, considering in particular issues of authenticity, tradition, sustainable development.
The course unit Space, Cities and Development 2023-2024 has been renamed COMMUNITY, LOCALITY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE.
The content of the new course concerns the process of heritage-making which communities perform within the safeguarding cultural policy of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization).
"Transhumance, the seasonal droving of livestock along migratory routes in the Mediterranean and in the Alps" is the case study I selected to provide a deeper understanding of the key notion of Intangible Heritage.
In 2003, the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage represented a landmark shifting from the eurocentric notion of monumental heritage, fixed in an enclosed space/time, to a more inclusive grid of classification thus focusing on living cultural practices of local communities traditions.
This course adopts critical and constructivist approach to cultural heritage. The primary aim is to critically explore the ways in wich cultural identity discourses and practices are performed within UNESCO and heritage communities, considering in particular issues of authenticity, tradition, sustainable development.
- Docente: Maria Teresa Milicia