Local cultures, global heritage: surveying, collecting, communicating - new information models for knowledge and dissemination of cultural heritage

• Autores: Paola Puma
• Localización: Paisaje cultural urbano e identidad territorial: 2° Coloquio Red Internacional de pensamiento crítico sobre globalización y patrimonio construido, Florencia 2012 / Olimpia Niglio (ed. lit.), Vol. 1, 2012, ISBN 978-88-548-4841-2, págs. 600-608
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • At the end of the twentieth century, the outbreak of the globalization of trade in Europe was perceived as a problem but, well established phenomenon, can we find positive aspects or even look at globalization as a resource that will globalize also the knowledge and the spreading of the cultural heritage? There is, maybe, the possibility that globalization may indeed become a cultural phenomenon that goes deeper than just the expansion and increasing tourist markets, but we need to change strategy.

    Things, in fact, are not easy because we can no longer think in sharp oppositions, as local/global terms, as modern society is no longer characterized by categories, but from flows (increasingly elusive and forever more powerful). Flows that are all cultural, economic and social lateral that overcome the geographical locations: against which the contribution of knowledge of the scientific communities working in the field of cultural heritage is called a strong challenge