Theory and Practice in Heritage and Sustainability

Elizabeth Auclair is Assistant Professor in the geography department at Cergy-Pontoise University, France, where she is director of a Master's degree on cultural development and heritage valorization.

This book explores the relationships between heritage and sustainability in terms of both theory and practice. It examines the relationships between people and communities in the places where they live, and thus exemplifies the diverse ways in which heritage is used to forge identities and support and create memory, individually and collectively. The book encourages a view of heritage as a people-centred process and focuses on the aspects of cultural sustainability that help to support human well-being through socially- and culturally-sensitive policy and practice.

Living between past and futre: An introduction to heritage and cultural sustainability Part 1 Equity, Inclusion, Citizenship 1. Ordinary heritage, participation and social cohesion in suburban towns 2. 'Keeping it real': Social sustainability in the Homeless Heritage project in Bristol and York (UK) 3. The burden of history: Living heritage and everyday life in Rome 4. Remembering cities: The role of memory in the culturally sustainable development of Dubrovnik (Croatia) 5. The challenge of cultural sustainability in city museums: Showing the city and selecting past in Noyon (France) 6. Social sustainability in historic city centres: The Grand Place in Brussels Part 2 Construction, Recovery, Resilience 7. Language revitalisation, sonic activism and cultural sustainability: Voicing linguistic heritage on Jersey 8. Heritage resurrection: German heritage in the Southern Baltic cities 9. Sustainability through alteration: Eastern Baltic manors in the Estonian tradition 10. The potential space for cultural sustainability: Place narratives and place-heritage in Rjukan (Norway) 11. Politics, tourism and cultural sustainability: The construction of heritage in Cyprus 12. From dissonance to resilience: The heritage of Belgrade's staro sajmiste 13. Aftermath or futures: Concluding thoughts