Thursday, Feb 9, 2023

Intangible Cultural Heritage

Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture / Literatura Ludowa, vol. 68 (2024) no. 1

Guest Editors: Karolina Dziubata-Smykowska and Katarzyna Smyk

In connection with the tenth anniversary of Poland ratifying the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, and, simultaneously, the twentieth anniversary of establishing this convention, Journal of Folklore and Polulare Culture / Literatura Ludowa invites contributions of articles and reviews of academic publications undertaking interdisciplinary reflection on theoretical and practical issues connected with studying and safeguarding heritage in the context of the cultural landscape and various problems of late modernity.

 

We are particularly interested in issues concerning:

  • the ways of defining intangible heritage, and its relation to the categories of folklore, tradition, and cultural landscape;
  • the ways of defining depositaries of intangible cultural heritage;
  • the functions of intangible heritage perceived in the following contexts:
    • axiological (heritage as representation of certain values),
    • ethical (heritage as a system of rights and obligations),
    • economic (heritage as a variously comprehended product),
    • political (using heritage in local identity discourses as well as practices of power ad resistance),
    • spatial (heritage as a significant part of geographical, urban, tourist space);
  • intangible aspects of heritage that is difficult, unwanted, troublesome, embarrassing, rejected, etc.;
  • intangible heritage that is a source of conflicts (ethnic, religious, social, economic) and managing heritage as a tool for mitigating/solving conflict situations;
  • managing intangible heritage in the context of material resources and cultural goods (natural, historical, industrial heritage);
  • paradoxes and dangers resulting from the procedure of inscribing various aspects of intangible heritage into the UNESCO list (politicization, institutionalization, commercialization, trivialization, increase in tensions between depositaries).

 

Articles and reviews of academic books dedicated to the subject area described above can be submitted in Polish and in English by MAY 15th, 2023.

All texts submitted to Journal of Folklore and Popular Culture must meet the requirements specified in our Author Guidelines: https://apcz.umk.pl/LL/about/submissions#authorGuidelines