Issue 40 – Global InCH – Encyclopedia of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Global InCH: Journal of Living Heritage is dedicated to the critical study of living heritage. The journal foregrounds material culture and intangible cultural practices situating them within their historical trajectories as well as their contemporary social, economic and environmental contexts. Engaging with questions of transmission, labour, ecology, gender, mobility, intellectual property, and heritage governance and policy, Global InCH remains firmly attentive to local knowledge systems and the voices of practitioners and communities

The Global InCH Archive comprising of over 700 essays by more than 260 contributing scholars, practitioners, museum professionals, and cultural workers, bridges academic research, field-based documentation, and policy-oriented discourse.

Together the Journal and Archive serves as a platform for informed scholarship and reflective practice, contributing to global conversations on heritage, sustainability, and cultural futures in a changing world.

Global InCH Journal Issue 44, Part 2 Winter 2025

Building on the wealth of fibre diversity explored in earlier editions, this volume of Fibres Matter, follows on from Issue 42: Part 1 Summer 2023.

The present issue brings together essays and field notes that illuminate a wide spectrum of concerns, from the cultural and creative industries to questions of historiography, from fashion to sustainable futures, from the regeneration of endangered practices to the possibilities of innovation.

Collectively, they underscore the enduring significance of fibre as the seed and root of practice and as a site of renewal