Les géoparcs mondiaux UNESCO au prime de l'hybridation culturelle entre régimes patrimonialisation et médiation muséale
Les géoparcs mondiaux UNESCO au prime de l'hybridation culturelle entre régimes patrimonialisation et médiation muséale

Author: Yi Du

Publisher:

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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Les recherches portant sur les programmes patrimoniaux de l'UNESCO ont été nombreuses à critiquer le rôle joué par l'UNESCO dans la globalisation des régimes de patrimonialisation en tant que force homogénéisatrice imposant des pratiques et des valeurs patrimoniales du Nord au reste du monde. À partir de trois angles d'étude, notre analyse de la fabrique et de la mise en place du programme Géoparc mondial UNESCO (UGG) en Chine nous conduit cependant à prendre du recul sur cette critique. Nous montrons en effet que les rapports des Chinois avec le géopatrimoine ont été, sur le plan historique, et sont toujours le fruit d'hybridations culturelles entre d'une part les courants de pensée endogènes (confucianisme, taoïste), et exogènes (bouddhisme, naturalisme occidental) et d'autre part les politiques publiques et les pratiques de tourisme de montagne. L'institutionnalisation des géoparcs internationaux par l'UNESCO et des géoparcs nationaux en Chine constitue également des arènes d'hybridation au sein desquelles se jouent les négociations entre divers fabric-acteurs (i.e. les géologues, les bureaucrates de l'UNESCO et nationaux). Enfin à l'échelle locale on constate, dans la médiation muséale des trois géoparcs chinois que nous avons analysée, une hybridation entre les consignes nationales et internationales à travers divers registres de langages muséaux utilisés qui sont des révélateurs de leur appropriation au programme de l'UGG selon leur propre vision du patrimoine.

Les géoparcs mondiaux UNESCO
Les géoparcs mondiaux UNESCO

Author: Yves Girault

Publisher: ISTE Group

Published: 2019-04-01

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 178405562X

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Depuis vingt ans, on assiste à la reconnaissance progressive des géoparcs mondiaux par l’UNESCO. Ce sont des espaces territoriaux qui présentent un héritage géologique d’importance internationale. Cette classification présente de véritables défis. Des stratégies de développement conformes aux recommandations successives prônées par diverses ONG doivent être mises en place. Il faut aussi impliquer les acteurs locaux tant dans la préparation du dossier de candidature que dans la mise en oeuvre d’un plan de gestion adapté suivant un développement global durable. La gestion des tensions et asymétries qui existent entre les différents groupes d’acteurs (politiques, gestionnaires, scientifiques, représentants des populations locales) constitue également un enjeu majeur. C’est dans ce contexte et à travers des études de cas variées que cet ouvrage interroge les finalités des géoparcs mondiaux UNESCO, en termes d’inventaire et de conservation du patrimoine, de participation des populations locales, de développement local d’un territoire et de sa mise en valeur par l’interprétation du patrimoine.

The Principles of Geotourism
The Principles of Geotourism

Author: Anze Chen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-05-07

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 366246697X

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The book introduces tourism earth-science as a new scientific discipline by applying the principles of earth-science in the study of natural and human tourism resources. It involves studying the geo-scientific characteristics of these tourism resources through surveys, evaluation and aesthetic value assessment. It also discusses about the principles behind geopark establishment and management. It is an important publication providing direction for geopark and tourism developments in China. The book is a tool for geological heritage survey, assessment and research. It can also be used to assist planning of geopark, national parks, heritage protection and scientific interpretation. It is a valuable teaching material for teachers and students of geoscience and tourism as well as providing useful guidance for geopark managers and tour guides in their operation. In addition, the book also offers scientific knowledge of the surrounding natural and cultural landscapes to the public and the general visitors.

The Retreat of the Elephants
The Retreat of the Elephants

Author: Mark Elvin

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2004-03-10

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 0300133537

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The eminent China scholar delivers a landmark study of Chinese culture’s relationship to the natural environment across thousands of years of history. Spanning the three millennia for which there are written records, The Retreat of the Elephants is the first comprehensive environmental history of China. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources, which allow the reader direct access to the views and feelings of Chinese people toward their environment and their landscape. China scholar and historian Mark Elvin chronicles the spread of the Chinese style of farming that eliminated elephant habitats; the destruction of most of the forests; the impacts of war on the landscape; and the re-engineering of the countryside through gigantic water-control systems. He documents the histories of three contrasting localities within China to show how ecological dynamics defined the lives of the inhabitants. And he shows that China in the eighteenth century was probably more environmentally degraded than northwestern Europe around this time. Indispensable for its new perspective on long-term Chinese history and its explanation of the roots of China’s present-day environmental crisis, this book opens a door into the Chinese past.

The Geotourism Industry in the 21st Century
The Geotourism Industry in the 21st Century

Author: Bahram Nekouie Sadry

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2020-11-01

Total Pages: 534

ISBN-13: 1000012506

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Here is an engaging overview of the development of, definition of, and approach to modern geotourism, a growing movement to help sustain and showcase the distinctive geographical characteristics of many places around the world. This volume provides a clear conceptual framework with illustrative examples from all corners of the world to better understand abiotic nature-based tourism. The volume looks at the establishment and effective management of the over 140 UNESCO geoparks around the world and other travel and tourism destinations of interest for their significant historical, cultural, and frequently stunning physical attributes. With studies from a selection of geotourist areas, the volume explores urban geotourism, mining heritage, geomorphological landforms, geoheritage (based on cultural and historical interest), roadside geology of the U. S., community engagement and volunteer management programs, and much more. There is even a chapter on space and celestial geotourism.

Disasters and History
Disasters and History

Author: Bas van Bavel

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-10-22

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1108752381

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Disasters and History offers the first comprehensive historical overview of hazards and disasters. Drawing on a range of case studies, including the Black Death, the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 and the Fukushima disaster, the authors examine how societies dealt with shocks and hazards and their potentially disastrous outcomes. They reveal the ways in which the consequences and outcomes of these disasters varied widely not only between societies but also within the same societies according to social groups, ethnicity and gender. They also demonstrate how studying past disasters, including earthquakes, droughts, floods and epidemics, can provide a lens through which to understand the social, economic and political functioning of past societies and reveal features of a society which may otherwise remain hidden from view. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Global History with Chinese Characteristics
Global History with Chinese Characteristics

Author: Manuel Perez-Garcia

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-11-02

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9811578656

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This open access book considers a pivotal era in Chinese history from a global perspective. This book’s insight into Chinese and international history offers timely and challenging perspectives on initiatives like “Chinese characteristics”, “The New Silk Road” and “One Belt, One Road” in broad historical context. Global History with Chinese Characteristics analyses the feeble state capacity of Qing China questioning the so-called “High Qing” (shèng qīng 盛清) era’s economic prosperity as the political system was set into a “power paradox” or “supremacy dilemma”. This is a new thesis introduced by the author demonstrating that interventionist states entail weak governance. Macao and Marseille as a new case study aims to compare Mediterranean and South China markets to provide new insights into both modern eras’ rising trade networks, non-official institutions and interventionist impulses of autocratic states such as China’s Qing and Spain’s Bourbon empires.

Peasants in World History
Peasants in World History

Author: Eric Vanhaute

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-03-22

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1317807677

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This is the first world history of peasants. Peasants in World History analyzes the multiple transformations of peasant life through history by focusing on three primary areas: the organization of peasant societies, their integration within wider societal structures, and the changing connections between local, regional and global processes. Peasants have been a vital component in human history over the last 10,000 years, with nearly one-third of the world’s population still living a peasant lifestyle today. Their role as rural producers of ever-new surpluses instigated complex and often-opposing processes of social and spatial change throughout the world. Eric Vanhaute frames this social change in a story of evolving peasant frontiers. These frontiers provide a global comparative-historical lens to look at the social, economic and ecological changes within village-systems, agrarian empires and global capitalism. Bringing the story of the peasantry up through the modern period and looking to the future, the author offers a succinct overview with students in mind. This book is recommended reading to anyone interested in the history and future of peasantries and is a valuable addition to undergraduate and graduate courses in World History, Global Economic History, Global Studies and Rural Sociology.

Thinking through Landscape
Thinking through Landscape

Author: Augustin Berque

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-12

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1136742115

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Our attitude to nature has changed over time. This book explores the historical, literary and philosophical origins of the changes in our attitude to nature that allowed environmental catastrophes to happen. It presents a philosophical reflection on human societies’ attitude to the environment, informed by the history of the concept of landscape and the role played by the concept of nature in the human imagination and features a wealth of examples from around the world to help understand the contemporary environmental crisis in the context of both the built and natural environment. Thinking Through Landscape locates the start of this change in human labour and urban elites being cut off from nature. Nature became an imaginary construct masking our real interaction with the natural world. The book argues that this gave rise to a theoretical and literary appreciation of landscape at the expense of an effective practical engagement with nature. It draws on Heideggerian ontology and Veblen’s sociology, providing a powerful distinction between two attitudes to landscape: the tacit knowledge of earlier peoples engaged in creating the landscape through their work - "landscaping thought"- and the explicit theoretical and aesthetic attitudes of modern city dwellers who love nature while belonging to a civilization that destroys the landscape - "landscape thinking". This book gives a critical survey of landscape thought and theory for students, researchers and anyone interested in human societies’ relation to nature in the fields of landscape studies, environmental philosophy, cultural geography and environmental history.

Tourism Policy
Tourism Policy

Author: Aleksa S Vučetic

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2020-09-18

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13:

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Book represents the advanced approach to tourism policy - occurrence, definitions, types, initiators, makers, adoption, elements, goals, measures, and activities. It represents a detailed analysis of the spontaneous and planned development of tourism in Montenegro with a case presentation of different particular general and specific tourism policy measures and activities. The special focus of the publication is on the invisible connection between general and specific tourism policy on one side, and hotels, travel agencies, tourism organizations, museums, national parks, the port of nautical tourism, and business units of airline companies on another side. The analysis is completed with the influence of many independent factors (managers' - gender, ages, employment status, education level, education GPA, specialization, and regional affiliation) on optimizing general and specific tourism policy measures and activities.Tourism policy is a crucial tool for universal and specialized tourism destination management, especially in a time of economic depression and a decline in tourist turnover, caused by intense competition or pandemic such as COVID-19. The book is the result of many years of research on general and specific tourism policy. It is a favorable and vital source of information for - tourism policy makers, professors, Ph.D. students, MSc students, students of specialist study programs, bachelors, high schools students, entrepreneurs, managers, non-managerial employees, non-governmental organizations, tourists and excursionists, residents of universal and specialized tourism destinations, and others whose business depends on universal and specialized tourism offers and universal and specialized tourism sub-products.