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Ambienti, culture, patrimoni. Politiche e pratiche di tutela - Abstract

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The complexity and instability of the current historical situation that characterizes the social and political life of our country, as well as the rapid socio-cultural transformations imposed by globalization, lead us to believe that an articulated and frequent confrontation between social sciences and public administration managers and bureaucratic systems is increasingly necessary and useful to respond to the new needs in the field of territorial and landscape planning. The critical issues regarding the management, enhancement and safeguarding of protected areas (be they environmental, landscape or archaeological) have inevitably been overshadowed and in some cases aggravated by the arrival of the pandemic, which for two years has occupied the priorities in national and local government policy agendas. In Sicily, the largest region of the country as well as a region with a special statute, the dynamics of safeguarding our natural, landscape, archaeological and architectural heritages are notoriously characterized by profound and multiple environmental, cultural, social and economic emergencies, and require, today more than ever, the application of increasingly innovative and interdisciplinary approaches. At the same time, the role of socio-anthropological scientific research in safeguarding the intangible cultural heritage is increasingly important and fundamental. In fact, the intangible cultural heritage does not require only cataloging and safeguarding actions. As a historical process in the making and in continuous transformation, it must be analyzed both as a result of complex and diversified institutional and social paths, and as a performative machine where the agency of individuals constantly works by reconstructing and reinventing the heritage itself. Furthermore, in the contemporary context the intangible cultural heritage, the landscape and the environmental heritage are combined and are often inseparable and inseparable. This coexistence of objects and interests among the various heritages (cultural, landscape and environmental) is a symptom and effect of a historical situation that has profoundly changed in recent years. In fact, the new European programming (2014-2020) and the new paradigms of cultural and heritage policies established by recent European and international regulations (I am referring in particular to the Unesco conventions for the safeguarding of intangible heritage, for the protection of world heritage , cultural and natural, and on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions) are determining an ever closer and more assiduous convergence between the need for environmental sustainability and the safeguarding of cultural heritage. Anthropology and the social sciences should also take into account these important changes underway, which force us to rethink traditional categories (such as that of "cultural heritage" in our Code of Cultural Heritage and Landscape) and to experiment with new analytical perspectives. , integrated and interdisciplinary approaches. At the same time, this profoundly changed historical situation and the introduction of new paradigms in cultural and heritage policies should push the academic world and that of administrations to dialogue and collaboration.