Patrimonio y globalización: el recurso de la cultura en las Políticas de Desarrollo Europeas

Abstract

Any approximation to today's reality must refer to globalization , understood as a backdrop without which social processes cannot be analyzed. In synthesis, globalization is the market's penetration into social life. It is a long-term process that, accelerating in the last several decades, has expanded into new spheres such as culture.I discuss the causes and consequences that the gradual commercialization of culture is producing in Spanish society, explaining both the growing importance of cultural patrimony as a factor for development and the changing emphasis in our own ways of studying it. In the second part of the text, I examine in depth how this is negotiated at a local level, analyzing the new function of handicrafts in Spain in relation to European development policies.