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- Editorial - Um novo sentido para o Sagrado?Publication . Campelo, Álvaro; Fernandes, Joaquim; Meneses, Rute
- Cultural policy and politics of culture: communities and societyPublication . Campelo, ÁlvaroAll approaches to the Cultural Heritage subject dependent on a theoretical position. At first, when the social actors and researchers interested in the problem of cultural heritage, they took a position of defending and preserving its cultural legacy, owned by community. This awareness has been evolving over time. In fact, the importance and sense of cultural heritage in community life was understood only gradually. Over time, national and international institutions built a complex theoretical, legal and administrative collection, reflecting views and perceptions of the role of cultural heritage in community’s lives. It is in this process of political management that we have seen cultural policies and the definition of politics of culture in cultural heritage. And it is at this point that the interests, the ability to impose, or not, rules and procedures, the definition of objectives about selection and heritage purposes, - these have led to a conflict between institutions and actors, with the authority to define, and with communities composed of cultural actors.
- Editorial [de] Antropológicas, nº13Publication . Campelo, Álvaro
- Metropolises. New spaces of urban heritagePublication . Campelo, ÁlvaroWe propose here to examine the processes of metropolisation and how it is influencing the concepts of city and the consequent concept of urban heritage. The practices of Western Cities define what we mean by urban heritage today. Both the question of spatiality, as well as the city's relationship with the surrounding territory and its specificity compared to the countryside were important for the emergence of urban institutions and architectural, politics, religious, cultural, military and housing shapes that composed them. The urban organization itself sets the historical epochs of the city, since the ruins of classical antiquity until the industrial revolution and modern urbanism, including the medieval times. The whole urban web is often seen as a feature of its own, which defines a cultural identity. Therefore, many cities, due to their history and "urban identity" were classified by UNESCO as a World Heritage Sites, as is the case of the city of Porto and Guimarães, right next to us.
- Editorial: Viagens para uma antropologia interessantePublication . Campelo, Álvaro
- Consciências’05 - Os 40 anos da revista InsólitoPublication . Campelo, Álvaro; Fernandes, Joaquim; Meneses, Rute
- Editorial: Terrenos e metodologias para novos desafios antropológicosPublication . Campelo, Álvaro
- Creative industry, museums: the mediation of cultural heritagePublication . Campelo, ÁlvaroContemporary societies are faced with increased competitiveness in their economies, where the local and global challenges must combine, to satisfy the increasing diversity and complexity of consumers. If it’s true that the differentiation and diversification of economic sectors and industrial products require new models of economic development, new positions in the global market, and new marketing strategies, the same is true in industries linked to cultural industries and management of cultural heritage. Regions and cities are concerned to become creative spaces. The concepts of creative region and creative city drew attention to the value of knowledge and science in creating differentiated work and differentiated residential spaces, to capture social groups with improved financial conditions and with higher education. In conjugation with that, we would have high potential for regions and cities as well to become spaces of cultural, social and environmental excellence. In other words, do these spaces define societies of the future and sustainable development (Collis et al 2010)? Normally, when we talk about creative cities, we refer to spaces where big financial investment, education and excellent architecture attract creative industries. These spaces constitute a great focus (on geographical or political power level), where cultural services offerings, investment in urban design and in high technology are conditions for investment and creation of companies linked to creativity. Thus, in addition to the quality of urban space, the presence of cultural institutions, such as culture centres, “creative buildings”, museums and universities (research centres), we have a particular social structure, residential or working, i.e. social and cultural elites. Our question, here, is: are possible creative urban spaces out of that build around technology, urban centres, high tech architecture, and inhabited by common citizens?; can museums contribute to the construction of these creative spaces?; how can cultural heritage, of one local community take an important role in the discussion and building of creative spaces?; how cultural institutions, such as museums, can contribute to the place local communities have within the creative industries?
- Viver e exibir o sagrado: palcos e bastidores da sacralidade na contemporaneidadePublication . Campelo, ÁlvaroA contemporaneidade, caracterizada pelo crescimento das sociedades secularizadas, onde se manifesta a perda de poder das instituições religiosas, vê, ao mesmo tempo, o ressurgir da exibição pública da religião, em novos movimentos evangélicos e na força de outros movimentos sociais alicerçados no religioso. Esta aparente ambiguidade obriga a uma particular atenção aos diferentes palcos da vivência e manifestação da sacralidade. Distinguir entre religião e sacralidade pode ajudar a entender a complexidade das suas manifestações, bem como não fazer uma interpretação do religioso dentro da oposição entre religião e modernidade.