RE:VOICE edited volume: Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage
The findings from RE:VOICE are available to read in our edited volume Revoicing Intangible Cultural Heritage:
Perspectives from the Margins of Europe. Published by Routledge in June 2025 in its Critical Heritages of Europe series, all chapters are open access meaning they are free of charge for everyone to read.
The book is written by the project team and our collaborators. We use the combined dataset from all four countries in the project to show that the dynamics and ethics of participation in European national minority cultures’ intangible cultural heritage (ICH) are more nuanced than has previously been articulated, and argue for an approach to analysing ICH that reflects societal change in regions that are historically those of national minorities.
Our comparative exploration of exemplar contexts spans a range of circumstances in which European national minority cultures thrive and strive for voice and recognition. We explore how a wide range of people engage with national minorities’ ICH and seek a better understanding of the ethical and practical dimensions of this participation. Finally, we propose a heritage literate ‘revoicing’ of ICH: to create socially positive pathways to resilient ICH, and in turn ensure ICH is an arena where these positive social relations are shaped as part of an evolving ecosystem into the future.
