Sophia Labadi

UNESCO, Cultural Heritage, and Outstanding Universal Value (eBook, ePUB)

Value-based Analyses of the World Heritage and Intangible Cultural Heritage Conventions

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780759122574
• Artikelnr.: 37828799

Autorenporträt

Sophia Labadi is director of the Centre for Cultural Heritage and lecturer at the University of Kent. She worked for UNESCO from 2004 to 2012.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Dissecting Outstanding Universal Value
Chapter 1: Theoretical Perspectives on Outstanding Universal Value
Chapter 2: Outstanding Universal Value: International History
Chapter 3: National Constructions of the Past
Chapter 4: Cultural Diversity and Inclusion
Chapter 5: Sustainable Tourism and Development: Realistic Outcome or
Wishful Thinking?
Chapter 6: Authenticity and Post-authenticity: Keeping It Real?
Chapter 7: The Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention: Complementing World
Heritage?
Conclusion: The World Heritage Convention at 40
Appendix: Nomination Dossiers Selected
Bibliography
Index
About the Author