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Tradition, Gain, Sustainability

07.08.2019Ullrich Kockel

Intercultural Research Centre

Heritage Futures

“Futures” – what are they?

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a market in which participants can buy and sell commodities and their future

delivery contracts.

A futures market provides a medium for the complementary activities of

hedging and speculation, necessary for dampening wild fluctuations in the

prices caused by gluts and shortages.

Ullrich Kockel


http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/futures-market.html

http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/futures-market.html

When the husband of Buddenbrook's daughter

Tony runs into financial problems, her brother

Thomas agrees to help them out by “pre-buying”

their expected crop, which is destroyed by bad

weather just before the harvest.

He took a gamble on the future, losing a fortune.

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Trading as Gambling

Ullrich Kockel


Q: Is tradition a gamble on the future?

Investing in Heritage “Futures”

“this iconic bridge … has not just physically

connected two parts of the city but united our

people … When the bridge was opened in

2011 we hoped it would be a catalyst for

change. Now … the bridge symbolises a new

chapter in our history and is viewed not just

as a foot bridge but as a beacon of hope.

Joint statement by First Minister Peter Robinson and

Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness, 5 March 2015



Economy as Culture (Gudeman)



Tradition



Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down,

consisted in following the ways of the immediate

generation before us in a blind or timid adherence

to its successes, "tradition" should positively be

discouraged.

T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood (1920)

Authenticity



The EU as Heritage Agent



Transmitting Contentious

Cultural Heritages

with the Arts

Unsettling Remembering and

Social Cohesion in

Transnational Europe

Critical Heritages

Performing and Representing

Identities in Europe

http://www.traces.polimi.it/about/



http://www.unrest.eu/



https://research.ncl.ac.uk/cohere/



The Resurgence of the Right



Conflicting Models



Power Dependency

Centres Peripheries

Urban Rural

Global Local

Civilisation Culture

Tangible Heritage Intangible Heritage

Finite Resources Renewable Resources

Culture Nature

Tradition & Social Change



‘Tradition’ (Latin: tradere)

the process of and context for transaction of knowledge and related practices across space and through time

Authenticity & Place Identity



If no one ‘knows their place’

in this shifting collage world,

how can a secure social order

be fashioned or sustained?

(David Harvey 1989)

Socio-Ecological Gain



profit/loss vs gain/loss

profit

= good

(more=better)

loss

= bad

(less=better)

gain or loss

may be either

good or bad

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Sustainability



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Towards a Relational Approach

Ullrich Kockel


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