Heritage in Depopulated European Areas

该项目涉及欧洲周边地区的衰落，导致无形文化的丧失，建筑物和景观的遗弃和退化，以及在人口稀少地区努力赋予生活意义的人们。该项目的主要目标是探索脆弱的当地社区如何抵御人口变化的后果。基本的理论出发点是，个人和集体对过去的记忆不可避免地是复杂的，涉及到一个和解，记忆和遗忘的过程-过去的幽灵不可避免地影响了今天的价值观。我们将探讨人口减少的社区和行动者如何在政策，监管和经济资源方面理解新的现实和权力结构，以及这些如何影响行动和互动。我们还将重点关注重新利用过程的刺激因素以及废弃遗产的后续影响、后果和潜力。研究的主要主题将是受人口减少威胁地区的人口趋势与非物质文化遗产之间的关系，特别强调其可持续性。近几十年来，全球和国际社会以及国家和地方倡议的趋势日益从对传统生态知识、民间传说、口头传统、语言等的专门关注转向对保护所谓的非物质文化遗产的关注。对非物质文化遗产而言，它强调地方或区域社区形式的承载者、代际传承和与地点的联系绝对至关重要;人口减少对它们来说自然是比自然或物质遗产更危险的因素。该研究的目的是提供当地人口的主位观点，确定在某些地点导致人口稳定性改善的情况，该项目的潜在价值是改变地方、区域和国家利益攸关方在人口减少对文化遗产的威胁方面的行为。主要希望的变化是，这些利益攸关方考虑到当地的声音，即人口减少社区的当地行为者的声音。利益相关者应与当地社区和其他利益相关方沟通，制定针对具体地区的文化政策，以应对人口减少的威胁。学术界和不同的相关伙伴参与该项目将保证该项目将对人口稀少的欧洲地区、捷克共和国的赫拉德茨-克拉洛韦地区、立陶宛的设得兰群岛和考纳斯产生重要的社会影响。

The project deals with the decline of the European periphery resulting in the loss of intangible culture, abandonment and the degradation of buildings and landscapes, and people who struggle to give meaning to their lives in depopulated areas. The primary goal of the project is to explorehow fragile local communities resist the consequences of demographic change. The basic theoretical point of departure is that individual and collective remembering of the past is inevitably complex and involves a process of conciliation, remembrance, and oblivion-ghosts of the past inevitably impact present day values. We will explore how depopulated communities and actors make sense of new realities and power structures in terms of policy, regulation and economic resources, and how these influence both actions and interactions. We will also focus on the stimuli of repurposing processes and the ensuing effects, consequences and potential of abandoned heritage.The main themes of the research will be the relationship between demographic trends and intangible cultural heritage in regions threatened by depopulation, with special emphasis on its sustainability. In recent decades, the tendencies of the global and international community and national and local initiatives have increasingly shifted from an exclusive interest in traditional ecological knowledge, folklore, oral tradition, language, etc. to an interest in safeguarding the so-called intangible cultural heritage. For intangible cultural heritage, its emphasis on bearers in the form of local or regional communities, intergenerational transmission and the link to the location are absolutely crucial; depopulation is naturally a much more risky factor for them than for natural or material heritage. The aim of the research is toprovide an emic perspective of the local population, identifying the circumstances that, in someof the locations, lead to improvements in demographical stability.The potential value of the project is a change in the behaviour of local, regional and national stakeholders in relation to the threats of depopulation upon cultural heritage. The main desired change is that these stakeholders take into account local voices, those of local actors in depopulated communities. The stakeholders should communicate with local communities and other interested parties in preparing territorially specific cultural policies in order to face thethreat of depopulation. The involvement of academia and different associated partners in the project will guarantee that the project will have an important societal influence on thesedepopulated European areas, the Hradec Králové region in the Czech Republic, the Shetland Islands and Kaunas in Lithuania.