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Pathways - Exploring the Routes of a Movement Heritage (Paperback)
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Pathways - Exploring the Routes of a Movement Heritage (Paperback)
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PATHWAYS TO THE PAST, AND THE FUTURE Trails and paths are pathways
to the past - and serve as a physical and cultural infrastructure
of human memory. While they lead the way forward for anyone out
walking, they also point backwards, towards history. Walking has
been a common denominator for human life everywhere, at all times.
While other forms of mobility have grown in importance and changed
our societies in dramatic ways, most of us still depend on walking
in our daily life. The massive number of human steps throughout
history has created a rich and widespread network of trails that
cross the globe and connect places. It has also resulted in a vast
immaterial heritage through literature, art and music about
walking. Paths and trails accommodate both the material and the
immaterial, and challenge not only conventional heritage management
but also the very essence of the nature/culture divide. In the
Anthropocene, traces of people's movements can be regarded as a
distinct kind of cultural heritage, a 'movement heritage' that is
dependent on continuous use or memory work to remain. It also
points to historical and current forms of land use that is
sustainable in the most basic meaning of the word, i.e. that these
activities can be and de facto has been practiced over long periods
of time without causing large- scale environmental degradation. Few
other forms of human mobility can make similar claims. The volume
formulates an expansion of the landscape heritage through one of
its most defining practices, movement by foot. This heritage is
physical in the shape of paths, trails and effects on vegetation,
but it is also a local memory landscape or life world with great
significance, and it is increasingly digital as it appears in
computer games and mobile images. It engages in dialogue around
several cases in different regions that show how trails and paths
can be, and have been, a resource in and for the heritage sector
and for sustainable landscape management. It analyses how this
movement heritage is articulated, and what type of historical,
literary, and mediated accounts that are used in the process.
Chapters deal with narrative aspects of walking and trails, through
literature, sound and art, often way beyond the beaten track; focus
on digital walking, in computer games and walking simulators; zoom
in on walking and trails as heritage and as tools for sustainable
development; and demonstrate how paths are also part of an endless
co-creation of heritage, as we go.
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