Intangible Cultural Heritage and State Regimes in Portugal and Spain

Abstract

Edited by Matthew Machin-Autenrieth, Salwa el-Shawan Castelo-Branco, and Samuel Llano.Heritage is ubiquitous in the late-modern world. It is a product of modernity as well as one of the main producing factors of modernity (Harrison 2013; Santamarina Campos 2013). Existing heritage regimes illustrate a shift from political projects based on distinction and the creation of national identities to economic projects linked to transnational capital: from a nation-building project to national identities to be consumed (Comaroff and Comaroff 2009; Santamarina Campos and Mármol 2017, 365). In this chapter, we map UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) trajectories in Portugal and Spain using the concept of heritage regime(s) to understand these trajectories.Peer reviewe