خلاصة:
This paper examines the potentials and pitfalls of the requirement of sustainable development as part of the definition of intangible cultural heritage in the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICHC). It argues that the requirement of sustainability can have the effect of excluding communities from the management of their own heritage, which stands in tension with the spirit of the ICHC, meant to be more community-centric with respect to cultural heritage. In this respect, sustainability, as a requirement meant to help safeguard heritage for future generations, may in fact contribute to its disappearance if it is not fully integrated with the views of communities.
ملخص الجهاز:
In limiting the definition of ICH to only those practices that engage with sustainable development, the ICHC advances the conversation about the relationship between cultural heritage and the environment in significant ways.
This connection between intangible cultural heritage and sustainable development is also representative of the more general relationship between intangible heritage and development, to the extent that the survival of ICHC depends on the survival of the way of life of a certain community or group and therefore on its economic viability.
Article 49 reads: The design, execution and coordination of the plans, programs and projects of economic and social development that the government and the Technical International Cooperation may put forward for the benefit of the Black Communities to which this Law refers should be carried out with the participation of the representatives of said communities, in order to respond to their particular needs, the preservation of the environment, the conservation and qualification of their traditional practices of production, the eradication of poverty and the respect and recognition of their social and cultural life.
‟58 With respect to sustainable development, the 2015 Nomination File states that “the element is involved in all aspects of family and community life relating, among other things, to respect for nature and the sustainable 52 UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, Nomination File for Inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2015, 10th sess, Document No 01099 (November 2015) 3 (‘Marimba Nomination File (2015)’), 2.