Negotiations and co-creations in the resourcing of intangible cultural heritage events

Semley, Natalie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6497-1947 and Hodsdon, Laura ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0817-4852 (2025) Negotiations and co-creations in the resourcing of intangible cultural heritage events. In: Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage. Routledge, London, pp. 191-204. ISBN 9781032597294

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Abstract / Summary

A frequent challenge to the resilience of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) events in minoritised cultures is the very practical question of resource: financial (funding) and human (volunteers). Navigating this inevitably brings insider-organisers into contact with broader socio-economic forces in order simply to make the events happen. Conversely, socio-economic forces may themselves impinge upon the way that an ICH event has previously been performed. The interplay between institutional or societal level drivers and local ones has been discussed widely in an ICH event context, for example in terms of: the impact of the tourist gaze (Fournier 2020; Picard & Robinson 2006; Barrera-Fernandez 2019) and commodification (Ballengee-Morris 2002; Bunten 2008); the relations between national or supranational policies and discourses ( e.g. Nie Craith 2008), and of course the changing relationships and meanings of the 'heritagisation' process via UNESCO (e.g. Testa 2020). But practical ambivalence about the best path for resilience by those most intimately involved in organising these events - as exemplified in the quotation above from an event insider in Penzance, Cornwall, discussing the town's winter solstice festival Montol - suggests that more needs to be done to understand (and communicate) the implications of practical issues of resourcing when navigating the barriers and opportunities it offers In the context of this book, while all of these speak broadly to insiders (as locals) and outsiders (as organisations), a more nuanced understanding of the relationships between the different actors involved, as resolutions to these issues are variously negotiated, could help to chart a course between pragmatism and idealism. In order to do this, in this chapter we apply the lens of critical events studies to consider the resilience of ICH events in the context of resource drivers at different scales. Specifically, we use stakeholder theory, where we translate 'stakeholders' to mean individuals and groups located on the insider-outsider continuum, to explore the dynamics of the interplay between them as they negotiate and co-create ICH in different ways.

Item Type:	Book Section
ISBN:	9781032597294
Subjects:	Business > Experience Design
Department:	Cornwall Business School
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Depositing User:	Natalie Semley
Date Deposited:	01 Jul 2025 09:57
Last Modified:	01 Jul 2025 11:28
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/5215

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