scholarly journals Keeping Watch on Intangible Cultural Heritage: Live Transmission and Sustainable Development of Chinese Lacquer Art

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 3868 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoting Song ◽  
Yongzhong Yang ◽  
Ruo Yang ◽  
Mohsin Shafi
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Reference Value ◽  
Final Conclusion ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
Countermeasures And Suggestions ◽  
Depth Interviews

Countries all over the world have been constantly exploring ways to rescue and protect intangible cultural heritage. While learning from other countries’ protection measures, the Chinese government is also constantly exploring ways that conform to China’s national conditions. As China’s first batch of intangible cultural heritage, lacquer art boasts a brilliant history, but many people are not familiar with it today. Moreover, in the process of modernization, the lacquer art transmission is declining day by day, and it is facing unprecedented major crises such as loss and division of history into periods. Hence, it is essential to verify and reveal the challenges and dilemmas in the lacquer art transmission, and come up with corresponding protection measures around these problems. First of all, this research, through literature review, “horizontally” explores the current research status and the universal problems of lacquer art transmission from the macro level. With a view to make up for the deficiencies of the existing research and further supplement the empirical evidence, the current research, with the transmission of “Chengdu lacquer art” as an example and through in-depth interviews, tracks and investigates the whole process of transmission of Chengdu Lacquer Art Training Institute, and “vertically” analyzes the survival situation of lacquer art transmission and the core problems affecting transmission behaviors from the micro level. In the final conclusion, the research comes up with corresponding countermeasures and suggestions for the identified key problems, which is of significant reference value for facilitating the live transmission and sustainable development of Chinese lacquer art.

scholarly journals The Effects of Tourism on Traditional Craftsmanship for The Sustainable Development of Historic Environments

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 380
Author(s):  
Özlem Karakul
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Transmission Of Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Life Conditions ◽  
United Nations General ◽  
Increasing Demand

Improving the quality of life and creating various economic benefits, conservation of cultural heritage can contribute to sustainable development as a concept having environmental, economic and socio-cultural aspects. Intangible cultural heritage as the chief reason of cultural diversity particularly guarantee sustainable development. In recent years, the increase in the concern about local ways of life, festivities, has motivated the conservation of intangible cultural heritage specifically, and contributed to the continuity of the implementation of traditional craftsmanship as a domain of intangible cultural heritage and guaranteed the sustainable development. The conservation of traditional craftsmanship necessitates providing the transmission of knowledge between master and apprentice and the continuity of practice. Through 20th century, rapidly changing life conditions, the demand for traditional craftsmanship has noticeably decreased causing the decrease in the number of practitioner craftsmen. It needs to regenerate the organic relationships of crafts with the changing life conditions for their conservation. Tourism can be a motivating force to regenerate interrelations with the increasing demand of tourists for traditional crafts. This paper aims to present the effects of tourism on crafts and discuss specific conservation approach focusing on the sustainable development of historic environments particularly focusing on 17 sustainable development goals highlighted within the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development published by United Nations General Assembly in 2015.Keywords: Traditional craftsmanship, tourism, conservation, historic environments, sustainable development

scholarly journals Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage: The Amazonian Kichwa People

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 1395
Author(s):  
Claudia Patricia Maldonado-Erazo ◽  
Nancy P. Tierra-Tierra ◽  
María de la Cruz del Río-Rama ◽  
José Álvarez-García
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Intergenerational Transmission ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Community Leaders ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Revitalization ◽  
Multiple Processes ◽  
Cultural Erosion ◽  
Depth Interviews

Indigenous communities express their concern about the weakening and low appreciation of their millenary and ancestral manifestations and knowledge, due to society’s accelerated globalization. This fact has caused intergenerational transmission to be minimal, resulting in a gradual cultural erosion and loss of collective memory of human groups. The purpose of this study is to safeguard of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) of the Amazonian Kichwa nationality through identification and records of cultural manifestations. The analysis corresponds to a descriptive process of all the information collected, which was built from the development of multiple processes of cultural revitalization that correspond to in-depth interviews with community leaders and participatory workshops with all members of the community. During the process, an increase in the exchange of knowledge was observed, in addition to constant cultural insurgency in which the peoples maintain themselves in order to safeguard their cultures.

scholarly journals Research on countermeasures and suggestions of Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritance "entering campus"

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yanbing Yin ◽  
Chen Liu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Curriculum Design ◽  
Scientific Development ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Education Practice ◽  
Inheritance System ◽  
Policy Suggestions ◽  
Countermeasures And Suggestions ◽  
Resource Collaboration

Aiming at the problems that the current education practice of intangible cultural heritage is not fully implemented, and the campus curriculum system of intangible cultural heritage is not perfect, this paper puts forward some relevant policy suggestions, such as the construction of intangible cultural heritage education inheritance system, modular curriculum design, building resource collaboration platform and so on. It strengthens the important role of campus in the inheritance and protection of intangible cultural heritage, and provides a good scientific development system for the inheritance and protection of intangible cultural heritage in the campus channel

scholarly journals Coal Supply Sustainability in China: A New Comprehensive Evaluation Methodology

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pin Li ◽  
Hongyuan Yu ◽  
Jinsuo Zhang ◽  
Meiyang Du ◽  
Jing Xiong
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Carbon Capture ◽  
Comprehensive Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Reference Value ◽  
Evaluation Methodology ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Coal Supply

Coal is a major source of energy in China. Quantifying China’s coal supply sustainability is essential to track China’s efforts towards sustainable development and achieve carbon neutrality goals. In this research, in addition to availability, economic sustainability, environmental sustainability and technological sustainability, we specially considered health and security, and transport sustainability of China’s coal supply. We select 19 indicators from the above six dimensions to build a coal supply sustainability index and construct a novel optimized comprehensive evaluation model with level difference maximization to evaluate China’s coal supply sustainability. The results showed that the policies issued by the Chinese government have effectively improved coal supply sustainability. China’s coal supply sustainability level has improved significantly, with the figure nearly doubling from 0.338 in 2000 to 0.7004 in 2019. To improve the sustainability of China’s coal supply further fundamentally, it is still necessary to improve energy diversification. Since phasing out China’s coal reliance requires considerable time, the Chinese government needs to introduce more positive and effective policies to such as increase the research and development support for carbon capture, utilization and storage technology, etc. to improve the sustainability of coal supply. The results of this research presented in this paper will have reference value for both promoting the sustainable development of China and other coal-consuming countries in the world.

scholarly journals UNESCO, Intangible Cultural Heritage and the market: Controversies and stumbling blocks

Pravovedenie ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-92
Author(s):  
Chiara Bortolotto ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Commercial Practice ◽  
Moral Economies ◽  
Legal Frameworks ◽  
The Relationship

This article considers the relationship between Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and the market in the backdrop of the reorientation of UNESCO’s priorities regarding sustainable development. Based on ethnographic observations of the meetings of the governing bodies of the Convention for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage, this work analyses the controversies generated by “risks of over-commercialization” of ICH among actors with normative agency for designing “good” heritage governance. While the need to reconcile market and heritage is officially acknowledged, the inclusion of a particular commercial practice on the UNESCO ICH lists is qualified by many actors as “traumatic”. The debate spurred within the governing bodies of the Convention by the drafting of these documents sheds light on the controversial perception of the relationship between the market and ICH. In considering the idea of “commercialization without over-commercialization” suggested by actors to resolve the tension between heritage and market, this work highlights a constitutive ambiguity of the Convention. Based on the ideas of “misappropriation” and “decontextualization”, this concept is part of the logic of intellectual property. The Convention, however, was explicitly designed within an alternative paradigm emphasizing cultural dynamisms and shared belonging. While heritage entrepreneurs on the ground shift from one regime to the other making a pragmatic and strategic use of legal frameworks based on fundamentally different logics, this inconsistency generates normative conundrums among the actors involved with the official bodies of the Convention, torn between a proprietary and a heritage regime and their different moral economies. In the framework of the Convention, the principle of “commercialization without over-commercialization” embodies therefore a fragile compromise reflecting the tension between different regimes regulating traditional culture.

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