Taiwanese Indigenous Cultural Heritage and Revitalization: Community Practices and Local Development

Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development

Electronic Publications of Cultural Heritage: Global Challenges and Local Practices

The paper reviews information and communication technologies as new tools in cultural representation and knowledge management, addresses issues of persuasion and engagement with the new media, explores ways on how to construct three-dimensional interfaces that are easy to use and navigate. These main issues are addressed in discussing the design of cultural interface ’Virtual exhibition of Lith...

Identifications and cultural practices of mixed - heritage youth

This paper summarises findings from a research study which investigated how 11to 17-year-old mixed-heritage adolescents living in London negotiate the demands of living with multiple cultures. The study also explored how these adolescents construe themselves in terms of race, ethnicity and nationality. It was found that these individuals had multiple identifications which were subjectively sali...

Rethinking cultural competence: Insights from indigenous community

Multicultural professional psychologists routinely assert that psychotherapeutic interventions require culturally competent delivery for ethnoracial minority clients to protect the distinctive cultural orientations of these clients. Dominant disciplinary conceptualizations of cultural competence are ‘‘kind of person’’ models that emphasize specialized awareness, knowledge, and skills on the par...

Cultural effects of authenticity: contested heritage practices in China

In this study, I analyse how the Chinese Government imposes the concept of authenticity on local heritage practices in the process of heritage nomination, conservation and management. Rather than discussing authenticity as an objective criterion, I approach authentication as a social process in the heritage discourse that impacts on local cultural practice. Through illustrating two cases in Chi...