Heritage Reconstruction and People. Integrated Recovery After Trauma.
Announcement · will be published in 2026 · Author: Amra Hadzimuhamedovic · This book examines heritage reconstruction and its relationship to community recovery after cultural trauma. Its content and structure situate it within a new body of theory shifting the focus from physical buildings and ensembles to people, from the material to the social. The...more→
Cultural Heritage Protection in Korea – Contents of Law and Policy and their Changes in Relation to International Conventions
Announcement · will be published in 2025 · Jihon Kim · Based on important UNESCO Conventions, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the legal and policy framework for the protection of cultural heritage in the Republic of Korea. Korea has ratified numerous UNESCO Conventions on the protection of cultural heritage and introduced the relevant...more→
Cultural Heritage Re-Imagined. A Systemic Approach to Theory, Practice, and Management.
2026 · Editors: Matthias Ripp, Sushobhan Majumdar, Claire Cave · This book offers an innovative perspective on cultural heritage, blending theory, practice, and management through a comprehensive, interdisciplinary lens. It proposes a systemic approach to understanding heritage as a dynamic and evolving entity, emphasizing its interconnectedness with social, cultural, environmental, and technological systems. more ...more→
Living Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Management. Policies, Principles, and Propositions.
2026 · Editors: Surabhi Srivastava, Isabel Vaz de Freitas, Eduarda Rabaçal · This book presents emerging research on methods and approaches for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, with a particular focus on its relevance to design and the arts. Drawing on case studies from countries such as India, Portugal, Brazil, Australia, Thailand and other regions, the...more→
Heritage Narratives and Experiences. Exploring Conservation, Tourism, and City Identity in Historical Urban Contexts.
2025 · Author: Tianchen Dai · This book examines how visitors, researchers, and authorities perceive the value, authenticity, and atmosphere of heritage in historical cityscapes. It analyzes the narratives created by corresponding stakeholders and sheds light on how such perceptions influence decision-making regarding heritage management, heritage consumption, and the formation of the city's image. more...more→
Heritage Reconstruction and People. Integrated Recovery After Trauma.
Announcement · will be published in 2026 · Author: Amra Hadzimuhamedovic · This book examines heritage reconstruction and its relationship to community recovery after cultural trauma. Its content and structure situate it within a new body of theory shifting the focus from physical buildings and ensembles to people, from the material to the social. The...more→
Cultural Heritage Protection in Korea – Contents of Law and Policy and their Changes in Relation to International Conventions
Announcement · will be published in 2025 · Jihon Kim · Based on important UNESCO Conventions, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the legal and policy framework for the protection of cultural heritage in the Republic of Korea. Korea has ratified numerous UNESCO Conventions on the protection of cultural heritage and introduced the relevant...more→
Cultural Heritage Re-Imagined. A Systemic Approach to Theory, Practice, and Management.
2026 · Editors: Matthias Ripp, Sushobhan Majumdar, Claire Cave · This book offers an innovative perspective on cultural heritage, blending theory, practice, and management through a comprehensive, interdisciplinary lens. It proposes a systemic approach to understanding heritage as a dynamic and evolving entity, emphasizing its interconnectedness with social, cultural, environmental, and technological systems. more ...more→
Living Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Management. Policies, Principles, and Propositions.
2026 · Editors: Surabhi Srivastava, Isabel Vaz de Freitas, Eduarda Rabaçal · This book presents emerging research on methods and approaches for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage, with a particular focus on its relevance to design and the arts. Drawing on case studies from countries such as India, Portugal, Brazil, Australia, Thailand and other regions, the...more→
Heritage Narratives and Experiences. Exploring Conservation, Tourism, and City Identity in Historical Urban Contexts.
2025 · Author: Tianchen Dai · This book examines how visitors, researchers, and authorities perceive the value, authenticity, and atmosphere of heritage in historical cityscapes. It analyzes the narratives created by corresponding stakeholders and sheds light on how such perceptions influence decision-making regarding heritage management, heritage consumption, and the formation of the city's image. more...more→
Handbook on Intangible Cultural Practices as Global Strategies for the Future
2025 · Editor: Christoph Wulf · This open access handbook is the first to take stock of and to provide a comprehensive international interdisciplinary review of developments in living culture since the Convention on Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage began in 2003. It is based on an expanded concept of culture, as it has been used...more→
Claiming Back Their Heritage: Indigenous Empowerment and Community Development through World Heritage
2023 · Author: Geneviève Susemihl · This book provides a unique, in-depth look at three Indigenous World Heritage sites in Canada and their use for Indigenous empowerment and community development. Based on extensive ethnographic field studies and comprehensive narrative inter-views, it shows how the three First Nation communities presented in the case studies enforce recognition...more→
Dance Practices as Research – Approaches to the Safeguarding and Transmission of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Dance
2023 · Author Vicky Kämpfe · This book contributes to the growing scientific literature on ‘intangible cultural heritage’ – determined by UNESCO to be particularly worthy of safeguarding and transmission – by advancing a theoretical-analytical framework for the (in)tangible cultural heritage of dance. By exploring the potential of the ‘intangible materiality’ of dance practice the...more→
50 Years World Heritage Convention: Shared Responsibility – Conflict & Reconciliation
2022 · Editors: Marie-TheresAlbert · Rolandbernecker · ClaireCave · AncaClaudiaProdan · MatthiasRipp · Heritage creates identity and the destruction of heritage destroys identity. Therefore, individuals and societies are responsible for the sustainable safeguarding of their heritage. This is the focus of the most successful convention for the protection of our heritage, the World Heritage Convention, which...more→
A Metamodel for Heritage-based Urban Development – Enabling Sustainable Growth Through Urban Cultural Heritage
2022 · Author: MatthiasRipp · This book proposes a Metamodel for heritage-based urban development, based on urban morphology, governance theory, and the metamodeling concept of John P. Van Gigch. Building on international policies such as the 2011 Recommendation for Historic Urban Landscapes and the results of the 2016 Urban Habitat III Conference, cultural heritage is now regarded...more→