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Foreword

Featuring 5 perspectives from students attending the Community Voices | Cultural Heritage Management Field School, this blog will attempt to document thoughts, feelings, learning points and experiences throughout their time here in Songkhla Old Town. We hope that our posts will not only give you a taste of what we did here, but inspire everyone to think deeply about Community, Conversations, Conservation within our own communities. .

The Field School

During the four‐week Field School, students will explore how heritage values are identified, evaluated, preserved, and presented; and the critical role of community participation in cultural heritage management. It will address as to how community participation can plays a critical role in cultural heritage and tourism management. It will profile as to how international and national legal instruments for safeguarding cultural diversity, governance structures, and local area planning intersect within integrated and interdisciplinary management. It will also provide a critical introduction to community mapping; cultural tourism; sustainable development; Historic Urban Landscape; Heritage Impact Assessment. The Field School will provide first‐hand experience to students as capacity building for locating heritage and culture in sustainable development in a rapidly globalizing Asia and culminate in the Tan Chin Tuan Symposium: Community, Conversations, Conservation in Asian perspectives.