TY - JOUR
KW - intangible heritage
KW - Lesotho
KW - Lesotho (LS)
KW - UNESCO
KW - cultural geography
KW - cultural heritage
KW - cultural landscape
KW - dam construction
KW - development
KW - heritage conservation
KW - policy approach
KW - project management
KW - social impact assessment
KW - southern Africa
AU - Luiseach Eoin
AU - Rachel King
AB - After ten years and extensive debate of UNESCO s Convention on the Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage (2003), workable definitions and frameworks for safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) are either emergent or non-existent. This is particularly significant in the case of heritage mitigation associated with large-scale construction projects: where these entail population resettlement and/or landscape loss, recording ICH is necessary both for impact assessment and mitigation and for helping impacted-upon communities cope with trauma. Nevertheless, there is little discussion of how to implement ICH safeguarding frameworks in salvage contexts.This paper focuses on attempts to record ICH impacted upon by western Lesotho s Metolong Dam. We highlight the practical shortcomings of existing ICH definitions and safeguarding protocols. We discuss the methodology used at Metolong and its ethical entailments, and take inspiration from UNESCO policy (and debates thereupon) and other sources in an attempt to find a workable framework for ICH recording in development contexts.
DO - 10.1080/00438243.2013.823885
M1 - 4
N2 - After ten years and extensive debate of UNESCO s Convention on the Safeguarding of the Intangible Heritage (2003), workable definitions and frameworks for safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) are either emergent or non-existent. This is particularly significant in the case of heritage mitigation associated with large-scale construction projects: where these entail population resettlement and/or landscape loss, recording ICH is necessary both for impact assessment and mitigation and for helping impacted-upon communities cope with trauma. Nevertheless, there is little discussion of how to implement ICH safeguarding frameworks in salvage contexts.This paper focuses on attempts to record ICH impacted upon by western Lesotho s Metolong Dam. We highlight the practical shortcomings of existing ICH definitions and safeguarding protocols. We discuss the methodology used at Metolong and its ethical entailments, and take inspiration from UNESCO policy (and debates thereupon) and other sources in an attempt to find a workable framework for ICH recording in development contexts.
SP - 653
EP - 669
TI - How to develop Intangible Heritage: the case of Metolong Dam, Lesotho
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84888012550&doi=10.1080%2f00438243.2013.823885&partnerID=40&md5=38f4300387ebb8a12d6cc64f6ed989e7
VL - 45
SN - 00438243 (ISSN)
ER -