Heritage in Depopulated European Areas

该项目涉及欧洲周边地区的衰落，导致非物质文化的丧失，建筑物和景观的被遗弃和退化，以及在人口减少的地区努力赋予自己生活意义的人。该项目的主要目标是探索脆弱的当地社区如何抵抗人口变化的后果。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，涉及一个和解、记忆和遗忘的过程--过去的幽灵不可避免地影响着当今的价值观。我们将探讨人口减少的社区和行为者如何在政策、法规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。研究的主要主题是人口趋势与面临人口减少威胁的地区的非物质文化遗产之间的关系，并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、民俗、口头传统、语言等的关注转向对保护所谓非物质文化遗产的关注。对于非物质文化遗产，其对地方或区域社区形式的持有者的重视、代际传承以及与地点的联系绝对至关重要；人口减少对他们来说自然是一个比自然或物质遗产更危险的因素。这项研究的目的是提供当地人口的主要视角，确定在某些地方导致人口稳定性改善的情况。该项目的潜在价值是改变当地、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，即人口减少社区中当地行为者的声音。利益攸关方应与当地社区和其他有关方面进行沟通，以制定特定地区的文化政策，以应对人口减少的威胁。学术界和不同伙伴参与该项目将保证该项目将对以下地区产生重要的社会影响：欧洲人口减少地区、捷克共和国的Hradec Králové地区、设得兰群岛和立陶宛的考纳斯。

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.