The Spillover Effect of Intangible Cultural Heritage: Exploring the Impact of Intangible Cultural Heritage on Conservation Practices (Studies in Art, Heritage, Law and the Market, 13)

This edited volume examines the unforeseen effects of the notion of intangible heritage on conservation practices not only for urban contexts, but more generally for cultural practices.The notion of monumentality that UNESCO asserted focused on the material, tangible qualities of objects.It inevitably favoured European heritage sites and largely ignored forms of 'living' cultural heritage.This criticism not only came from scholars, but also from UNESCO member states from the Global South that addressed this omission and lobbied intensely for a more inclusive notion of World Heritage.One of the outcomes of these debates was the 2003 'Intangible Heritage Convention' - which was hoped to offer a remedy to the imbalanced global spread of World Heritage.Much academic research focuses on assessing whether or not the Convention indeed met its promises of broadening the heritage concept and ensuring a more even spread of World Heritage.Less attention has, however, been given to its unforeseen