The world has changed. Global increase in temperatures, uncertainty of regional climate features and escalated frequency of extreme weather events, apart from biophysical and economic phenomena, also have social consequences (Jigyasu 2020).
The panel focuses on the local way of perceiving, explaining, and reacting to the uncertainty of global climate change in the context of intangible cultural heritage (Rojas Blanco 2006, Milton 2008, Krauss 2009). We are interested in how local communities of various geographical sites understand and process visible changes in the local cultural landscape. What actions do people take towards heritage based on the human-environment relationship during natural and man-made disasters? How, in the presence of notable vegetation cycle shifts and extreme weather phenomena such as hydrological drought, heat waves and wildfires, do local communities practice rituals for which they need plants, water or certain weather conditions like rain or snow? What practices and worldviews are emerging in the post-disaster landscape? We would like to discuss ways of dealing with the values, threats, strategies and promises related to ways of coping with uncertainties.
We encourage speakers to submit papers concerning research methods and theoretical perspectives observed and experienced changes in the heritage practice, perception of the environment, presence of environmental protection activities in safeguarding strategies and the role of rituals, traditions, as well as other symbolic content in times of climate crisis.
This panel welcomes papers dealing with:
- Climate crisis’ and man-made disasters impact on intangible cultural heritage
- (new) Traditions, customs and rituals related to environment
- Safeguarding intangible cultural heritage based on human-environment relationship
- Non-urban environmental activism
- Intangible cultural heritage ties to mitigation and sustainability
- Deconstructing the nature-culture opposition
- New local ontologies (more than human ontologies)
- Research methods and theoretical perspectives
- Post-disaster (post-flood, post-fire, postmining) cultural landscape
- Impact of climate change on efforts in preserving cultural heritage
