UNESCO, Cultural Heritage, and Outstanding Universal Value

UNESCO, Cultural Heritage, and Outstanding Universal Value
Author: Sophia Labadi
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2013
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0759122563

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This book explores the international legal framework developed by UNESCO to identify and protect world heritage and its implementation at the national level. Drawing on close policy analysis of UNESCO's major documents, extensive professional experience at UNESCO, as well as in-depth analyses of case studies from Asia, Europe, and Latin America, Sophia Labadi offers a nuanced discussion of the constitutive role of national understandings of a universalist framework. The discussion departs from considerations of the World Heritage Convention as Eurocentric and offers a more complex analysis of how official narratives relating to non-European and non-traditional heritage mark a subversion of a dominant and canonical European representation of heritage. It engages simultaneously with a diversity of discourses across the humanities and social sciences and with related theories pertaining not only to tangible and intangible heritage, conservation, and archaeology but also political science, social theory, tourism and development studies, economics, cultural, and gender studies. In doing so, it provides a critical review of many key concepts, including tourism, development, sustainability, intangible heritage, and authenticity.

UNESCO, Cultural Heritage, and Outstanding Universal Value

UNESCO, Cultural Heritage, and Outstanding Universal Value
Author: Sophia Labadi
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2012-12-13
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0759122571

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This book explores the international legal framework developed by UNESCO to identify and protect world heritage and its implementation at the national level. Drawing on close policy analysis of UNESCO’s major documents, extensive professional experience at UNESCO, as well as in-depth analyses of case studies from Asia, Europe, and Latin America, Sophia Labadi offers a nuanced discussion of the constitutive role of national understandings of a universalist framework. The discussion departs from considerations of the World Heritage Convention as Eurocentric and offers a more complex analysis of how official narratives relating to non-European and non-traditional heritage mark a subversion of a dominant and canonical European representation of heritage. It engages simultaneously with a diversity of discourses across the humanities and social sciences and with related theories pertaining not only to tangible and intangible heritage, conservation, and archaeology but also political science, social theory, tourism and development studies, economics, cultural, and gender studies. In doing so, it provides a critical review of many key concepts, including tourism, development, sustainability, intangible heritage, and authenticity.

UNESCO, Cultural Heritage, and Outstanding Universal Value

UNESCO, Cultural Heritage, and Outstanding Universal Value
Author: Sophia Labadi
Publisher: Archaeology in Society
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
ISBN: 9781442252820

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This book provides groundbreaking analyses of the interlinking of world heritage with the increasingly complex processes of (post)nationalism, the preservation and representation of cultural diversity, tourism, and sustainable development and the conservation of authenticity.

Cultural Heritage Ethics

Cultural Heritage Ethics
Author: Constantine Sandis
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2014-10-13
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1783740671

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Theory without practice is empty, practice without theory is blind, to adapt a phrase from Immanuel Kant. The sentiment could not be truer of cultural heritage ethics. This intra-disciplinary book bridges the gap between theory and practice by bringing together a stellar cast of academics, activists, consultants, journalists, lawyers, and museum practitioners, each contributing their own expertise to the wider debate of what cultural heritage means in the twenty-first century. Cultural Heritage Ethics provides cutting-edge arguments built on case studies of cultural heritage and its management in a range of geographical and cultural contexts. Moreover, the volume feels the pulse of the debate on heritage ethics by discussing timely issues such as access, acquisition, archaeological practice, curatorship, education, ethnology, historiography, integrity, legislation, memory, museum management, ownership, preservation, protection, public trust, restitution, human rights, stewardship, and tourism. This volume is neither a textbook nor a manifesto for any particular approach to heritage ethics, but a snapshot of different positions and approaches that will inspire both thought and action. Cultural Heritage Ethics provides invaluable reading for students and teachers of philosophy of archaeology, history and moral philosophy – and for anyone interested in the theory and practice of cultural preservation.

World Heritage

World Heritage
Author: Amareswar Galla
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 381
Release: 2012-11-22
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107610753

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This thematic collection of 26 case studies provides a thorough understanding of World Heritage in the context of sustainable development.

Preparing World Heritage Nominations

Preparing World Heritage Nominations
Author: Duncan Marshall
Publisher: UNESCO
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2011
Genre: Cultural property
ISBN: 9231041940

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A Future in Ruins

A Future in Ruins
Author: Lynn Meskell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2018
Genre: History
ISBN: 0190648341

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Utopia -- Internationalism -- Technocracy -- Conservation -- Inscription -- Conflict -- Danger -- Dystopia

Managing Cultural World Heritage

Managing Cultural World Heritage
Author: UNESCO
Publisher: UNESCO
Total Pages: 155
Release: 2013-12-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9230012238

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Cultural Landscapes of Universal Value

Cultural Landscapes of Universal Value
Author: Bernd von Droste
Publisher: Balogh Scientific Books
Total Pages: 474
Release: 1995
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

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Cultural landscapes are at the interface between nature and culture. They represent the permanent interaction between humans and their environment, shaping the surface of the earth. With the rapid social and economic development cultural landscapes belong to the most fragile and threatened sites on earth. Adapted protection and proper management is urgently needed. Since 1992 outstanding cultural landscapes can be protected under the World Heritage Convention. Thus, the World Heritage Convention is the first international legal instrument recognizing and safeguarding this type of property for future generations. This important step has led to enhanced international and national recognition. The present volume aims to contribute to enhanced protection and management of cultural landscapes around the world. It furthermore highlights in a truly interdisciplinary approach some of the most outstanding cultural landscapes of universal value in their geocultural and environmental context.