Strategies for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage in vulnerable neighborhoods in Puebla, based on the international network of community management and solidarity economy: Women for Heritage

Abstract

In historic cities, an adequate management of intangible cultural heritage is required to generate community development policies that address social, environmental and economic problems related to its revaluation aimed at integral human development and improvement of the living conditions of vulnerable groups that carry ancestral knowledge, where women are a central element for this transmission. However, the lack of recognition and visibility of their importance as the nucleus of family unity and identity jeopardizes the preservation of knowledge inherited for generations. Therefore, the objective of this project, in addition to the training of human resources and the generation of scientific products, is to demonstrate the importance of collaborative work and the local and international articulation of cultural managers to promote a participatory process that formulates strategies to safeguard the natural and intangible cultural heritage. In this sense, the article documents the process of conformation of the International Network of Community Management "Women for Heritage", which seeks to build strategies under the principles of solidarity economy and sustainable local development to recognize the guardians and preserve their ancestral knowledge and traditional practices in the neighborhood of Analco. The implemented methodology of Participatory Action Research with an inter and multidisciplinary approach, allows the integration for the exchange of knowledge and obtain results with a transdisciplinary vision where the basis is the inclusion and gender equity.