Collection

Maritime and Coastal Cultural Heritage

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Closed

Throughout Europe and the world, coastal peoples’ cultural heritage tells a story of hundreds of years of connections with their marine and coastal environments. This cultural heritage provides a sense of place, unity, and belonging to people; it connects people to each other and to the past and helps guide their future. The understanding of cultural heritage’s importance for communities, nations, and policymakers has slowly been growing in recent years, with 2018 named as the European Year of Cultural Heritage (CH). Realization that CH is more than simply built heritage has grown in Europe, with new understandings that cultural heritage consists of, among other things, “the crafts we learn, the stories we tell, the food we eat …” Despite increasing attention for CH in Europe, coastal and maritime cultural heritage is at risk today from a variety of pressures such as climate change, pollution, urbanisation, mass tourism, population decline in rural areas, the loss of traditional fishing fleets, neglect, and inconsistent policies of sea and shore conservation across European regions. The aim of this Maritime Studies Special Issue is to highlight state of the art research being undertaken around coastal and maritime cultural heritage today. Topics addressed include: participatory methods to map heritage, challenges of preserving intangible heritage, seafood as coastal cultural heritage, cultural heritage as indicator of fishing communities, a gendered perspective on cultural heritage, risks to cultural heritage, linking cultural heritage to marine spatial planning.

Editors

  • Alyne Delaney Alyne Delaney  &

    Alyne Delaney

    Alyne Delaney (PhD, Anthropology) is an Associate Professor at the Center for Northeast Asian Studies at Tohoku University (Japan) and is affiliated with Aalborg University (Denmark). Her expertise is in human-environmental interactions, especially surrounding aspects of coastal communities and culture, such as fisheries governance, social organization, cultural heritage, and disaster resilience. Dr. Delaney was the PERICLES H2020 Project Coordinator (PI); in addition, she worked on the Danish islands case and stakeholder outreach during PERICLES (https://www.pericles-heritage.eu/)

  • Katia Frangoudes Katia Frangoudes

    Katia Frangoudes

    Katia Frangoudes has a PhD in Political Sciences and she is senior researcher at UMR AMURE-IUEM at the University of Western Brittany in France. Her research fields are social aspects in fisheries and aquaculture, including the gender dimension and fisheries governance at European level. The last years, with the frame of PERICLES H2020 project, her work was concentrated on maritime heritage into relation to fisheries and shellfish farming activities.

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