Heritages Research I

Recommended Prerequisites

English skills at least B1 are essential.

Teaching Methods

The teaching methods are those adequate to a doctoral seminar. They are essentially based on collective debate on relevant topics and texts proposed along the semester. Specifis tasks (e.g. oral presentations, position papers) will be assigned to each student in the course of the semester. The development of the different tasks will be encouraged according to the thematic focus in which each student intends to build his dissertation.

Learning Outcomes

In recent years, culture, especially in what relates to heritage, has become a central field of thought and action for sustainable development policies. The diversity and speed of the updates regarding the concepts and norms focused on the subject, essentially coming from international organizations, requires permanent attention and a specific training. The student must develop competences in these issues and demonstrate interest in following up and intervening in these processes, namely in what regards a capacity to build up argumentative systems and proposals for applied research.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The construction of cultural heritage as an area of knowledge and action: from the monument to the Historic Urban Landscape.

2. Development, colonialism and post-colonialism.

3. International Organizations: contexts of creation, mission and evolution.

4. The theoretical and political convergence of the interdisciplinary fields of heritage and environment in the building of the sustainable development concept.

5. Cultural heritage as a synonym for sustainability.

Head Lecturer(s)

Walter Rossa Ferreira da Silva

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 50.0%
Participation (including reading reports): 50.0%

Bibliography

BANDARIN, Francesco; OERS, Ron (ed.) (2015), Reconnecting the City: the Historic Urban Landscape approach and the future of urban heritage. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell

HODGE Joseph (2015/6), Writing the History of Development: the first wave (part 1 ). Humanity 6-3/ 7-1 (Winter 2015, Spring 2016): 429-463/ 125-174

KEOUGH, Elizabeth Betsy (2011), Heritage in Peril: a critique of UNESCO's World Heritage Program. Washington University Global Studies Law Review. 10/3

LABADI, Sophia (ed.) (2020), The cultural turn in international aid. Oxon: Routledge. 2020

SCOTT, Cynthia (2019), Cultural Diplomacy and the Heritage of Empire. London: Routledge

SMITH, Laurajane (2006), The uses of heritage. London: Routledge

STANEK, Lukas (2020), Architecture in Global Socialism. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

UNGER, Corinna R. (2018), International development: a postwar history. London: Bloomsbury.