Third Cultural Kids and cultural heritage
Third Cultural Kids (TCKs) are here defined as the children who spend a significant part of their formative years outside their parents'...
This blog is about cross-cultural heritage and globalization.
I am running an academic research project aiming to understand the significance and use of heritage in a globalized world. Whereas in the past heritage has been perceived and studied in terms of cultural artefacts, traditions, and places that generally belong to one particular nation's culture, now in a globalized world a cross-cultural heritage is emerging. That is because global nomads and cosmopolitan citizens give different meanings to the world surrounding them.
Here I will present my early explorations on these other expressions of cultural heritage, those that may better fit with global citizens’ collective memories.
25/02/2016: Invited lecture, School of Sociology University College Dublin, Ireland
10/03/2016: 2016 Annual Conference FIGT, Amsterdam, NL
14-15/03/2016: Futurescapes Symposium, Trondheim, Norway
03-08/06/2016: 2016 Conference ACHS, Montreal, Canada