Culture Heritage and Globalisation: Challenges to Sense of Identity and Cultural Sustainability

Tóm tắt

The world looks very different today and will continue to be so in more years to come. Landscapes, both physical and cultural, have been changed and alongside, technology in all aspects of human life. Undeniably, globalisation has facilitated cultural exchange but at the same time, it also has drawbacks in communities whose cultural life revolved around a sense of solidarity and communal spirit that served as a spring well for identity formation. The spectre of rapidly changing global environment is coupled with societies becoming more multi-cultural. Against this backdrop, culture heritage preservation and identity formation process have become a challenge particularly in the context of culture as traditional basis and anchor for sense of community and identity. The paper examines the issues related to culture preservation and heritage and the implications and challenges to identity formation of both communities and individuals in the context of a globalising world. It looks into the role of heritage institutions as critical agents for cultural sustainability in order to insure resilience of culture for future generations. The paper argues that safeguarding culture heritage, both tangible and intangible, is significant in the light of the reality that sites, objects and ways of life are all coming under threat amidst the unrelenting advance of globalisation.