@article{9416,
  author = {Filomena Sousa},
  title = {Is  Bottom-Up  a Condescending Expression? Tales of Indignation and Reflexivity},
  abstract = {In this essay, the author discusses the empowerment of practitioners of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and, from a conceptual perspective, the bottom-up model. To contextualize this reflection, she refers to two episodes, ephemeral and apparently irrelevant, but which helped her to rethink concepts and procedures that we often consider  definitive  or even  unquestionable . One of these episodes is related to her collaboration on the ICH Inventory held in the municipality of Elvas (2013-2014), in Portugal. The other episode refers to a journalistic report about the presence of a Choral Group of Cante Alentejano in Paris, in the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2014, when this cultural expression was inscribed in the Representative List.},
  volume = {121},
  number = {3},
  pages = {373},
  issn = {0042-8523},
}