Waelde, Charlotte; Cummings, Catherine; Pavis, Mathilde; Enright, Helena --- "Introduction to the Research Handbook on Contemporary Intangible Cultural Heritage" [2018] ELECD 720; in Waelde, Charlotte; Cummings, Catherine; Pavis, Mathilde; Enright, Helena (eds), "Research Handbook on Contemporary Intangible Cultural Heritage" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 1

Book Title: Research Handbook on Contemporary Intangible Cultural Heritage

Editor(s): Waelde, Charlotte; Cummings, Catherine; Pavis, Mathilde; Enright, Helena

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781786434005

Section Title: Introduction to the Research Handbook on Contemporary Intangible Cultural Heritage

Author(s): Waelde, Charlotte; Cummings, Catherine; Pavis, Mathilde; Enright, Helena

Number of pages: 13

Extract:

Introduction to the Research Handbook on Contemporary Intangible Cultural Heritage
Charlotte Waelde, Catherine Cummings, Mathilde Pavis and Helena Enright
Cultural traditions are constantly in the process of selection and reselection of certain aspects of that society and within this state of continuation, existing ones fade out and new ones are introduced during different stages of change. In the analysis of contemporary culture, the existing state of the selective tradition is of vital importance, for it is often true that some change in this tradition ­ establishing new lines with the past, breaking or re-drawing existing lines ­ is a radical kind of contemporary change.1
There are a whole range of reasons why research handbooks come into being. One is that a particular area is considered, by publishers and academics, to be of significant, and increasing, interest to a range of readers, another is where intellectual curiosity is stimulated, an academic event convened, papers submitted, edited and published as a collection. This collection arises from a combination of those, along with serendipitous meetings between its four co-editors. Charlotte Waelde, Catherine Cummings, Mathilde Pavis and Helena Enright came together from working on different projects. Charlotte and Mathilde worked on InVisible Difference: Disability, Dance and Law, an AHRC funded project which ran from 2013­15; Charlotte and Catherine worked on RICHES, Renewal, Integration and Change: Heritage and European Society, an EU funded project which ran from 2014­16. Mathilde and Helena met after Mathilde saw a play at the Bike Shed Theatre ...