[Commlist] CFP - Intangible Cultural Heritage

*Call for Papers – Intangible Cultural Heritage *

Dear Colleagues,

We are seeking contributions for a forthcoming multidisciplinary edited 
volume (Intellect) that examines intangible cultural heritage. The book 
will be open to scholarship from any discipline in the humanities and 
social sciences including practice as research and provide a critical 
forum for dialogue on the theoretical, methodological, and empirical 
issues central to an understanding of media, memory and public history 
today.

Cultural heritage is not limited to museums and monuments anymore but 
also encompasses oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, 
rituals, artefacts, film and media, and cultural spaces. Intangible 
cultural heritage stands for the collective cultural expressions of the 
everyday culture; it is inclusive and community-based. It is closely 
linked to communities, groups, or even individuals who create, recreate, 
and transmit it from generation to generation. According to UNESCO, 
“intangible cultural heritage” (ICH) is important in safeguarding 
cultural diversity in the age of globalisation. It is “transmitted from 
generation to generation, is constantly recreated by communities and 
groups, and provides them with a sense of identity and continuity, thus 
promoting respect for cultural diversity and human creativity.” 
(ich.unesco.org <http://ich.unesco.org>, 2021)

Intangible cultural heritage is a lived phenomenon. It constantly 
changes and diversifies, advances and develops, transitions, transforms, 
adapts, and is passed down to future generations. Hence, as a lived 
cultural reality, it cannot be preserved through regular or conventional 
means, namely by safeguarding it from any form of change. At the same 
time, what is important is not only how and in what way intangible 
cultural heritage is articulated, expressed and transmitted, but also 
the cultural framework in which it prospers, as well as how it is preserved.

The scope of this book will focus on exploring the concept of intangible 
cultural heritage and the new academic, artistic and creative directions 
of intangible cultural heritage that emerge from the public sphere and 
are part of public history. The aim will be to present scholarship that 
engages with aspects of intangible cultural heritage of the 
international arena as well as possibilities of their digital future.

You are invited to submit a 250-word abstract and a short biography by 
*October 20, 2021*. We welcome theoretical, empirical, or professional 
contributions of the highest standard on the following topics related to 
intangible cultural heritage with case studies and examples from all 
over the world including but not limited to:

• issues of terminology

• theory and local or global narratives

• issues of methodology

• what forces shape, create, recreate, and transmit intangible cultural 
heritage

• the local vs the national and the international

• globalisation and its effect (s) on intangible cultural heritage

• intangible cultural heritage and gender studies

• intangible cultural heritage and ethnicities

Chapters will be 6,000 to 7,000 words in length. The timeline for the 
chapter submission and peer-review process is as follows:

•Deadline for abstract submission: October 20, 2021

•Notification of acceptance: November 19, 2021

Ph.D. candidates with original empirical research are also encouraged to 
submit an abstract.

Prospective authors should submit an abstract directly by email to

(intangibleculturalheritagebook /at/ gmail.com)

Editors:

Dr Eleftheria Rania Kosmidou, University of Salford (UK)

Dr Leslie McMurtry, University of Salford (UK)


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