Experts in the World Heritage Regime
Author: Luke James
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 3031554973
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World Heritage on the Ground
Author: Christoph Brumann
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2016-04-01
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 1785330926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural conservation. Today, a place on the World Heritage List is much sought after for tourism promotion, development funding, and national prestige. Presenting case studies from across the globe, particularly from Africa and Asia, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of the UNESCO heritage regime. This book shows how local and national circumstances interact with the global institutional framework in complex and unexpected ways. Often, the communities around World Heritage sites are constrained by these heritage regimes rather than empowered by them.
Heritage Regimes and the State
Author: Bendix, Regina
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Published: 2013-07-02
Total Pages: 422
ISBN-13: 3863951220
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat happens when UNESCO heritage conventions are ratified by a state? How do UNESCO’s global efforts interact with preexisting local, regional and state efforts to conserve or promote culture? What new institutions emerge to address the mandate? The contributors to this volume focus on the work of translation and interpretation that ensues once heritage conventions are ratified and implemented. With seventeen case studies from Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and China, the volume provides comparative evidence for the divergent heritage regimes generated in states that differ in history and political organization. The cases illustrate how UNESCO’s aspiration to honor and celebrate cultural diversity diversifies itself. The very effort to adopt a global heritage regime forces myriad adaptations to particular state and interstate modalities of building and managing heritage.
Culture and Order in World Politics
Author: Andrew Phillips
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-09
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 1108484972
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a new framework for reconceptualizing the historical and contemporary relationship between cultural diversity, political authority, and international order.
UNESCO's World Heritage regime and its international influence
Author: Stefania Ferrucci
Publisher: tredition
Published: 2012-12-05
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 3849183513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book aims to portray the staus quo of the World Heritage regime, to demonstrate its global influence and the world's response to its diverse power mechanisms, and to provide incentives for improvement.
Implementing the World Heritage Convention
Author: Evan Hamman
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2023-01-17
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1789904927
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the World Heritage Convention enters its 50th year, questions are being raised about its failures and successes. This topical book draws together perspectives across law and heritage research to examine the Convention and its implementation through the novel lens of compliance.
A Research Agenda for Cultural Heritage Law
Author: Lucas Lixinski
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2024-08-06
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1035324423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Research Agenda recasts cultural heritage law, emphasising the importance of developing rigorous and socially engaged scholarly research in the field. It analyses tensions and methodologies, using the return of colonial cultural objects as a key case study.
Fragmentation vs the Constitutionalisation of International Law
Author: Andrzej Jakubowski
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-07-01
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 1317312279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe current system of international law is experiencing profound transformations. Indeed, the simultaneous processes of globalization combined with the disintegration of international systems of governance and law-making pose complex challenges for legal scholarship. The doctrinal response to these challenges has been theorized within two seemingly contradictory discourses in international law: fragmentation and constitutionalisation. This book takes an innovative approach to international law, viewing the processes of the fragmentation and constitutionalisation as being profoundly interconnected and reflective of each other. It brings together a select group of contributors, including both established and emerging scholars and practitioners, in order to explore the ways in which the problems of fragmentation and constitutionalisation are viscerally linked one to the other and thus mutually conditioning and stimulating. The book considers the theory and practice of international law looking at the two phenomena in relation to the various fields of international law such as international criminal law, cultural heritage law and international environmental law.
Heritage as Aid and Diplomacy in Asia
Author: Philippe Peycam
Publisher: ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Published: 2020-05-04
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9814881163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing from eleven rich case studies in Asia, this book is the first to explore how heritage is used as aid and diplomacy by various agencies to produce knowledge, power, values and geopolitics in the global heritage regime. It represents an interdisciplinary endeavour to feature a diversity of situations where cultural heritage is invoked or promoted to serve interests or visions that supposedly transcend local or national paradigms. This collection of articles thus not only considers processes of “UNESCO-ization” of heritage (or their equivalents when conducted by other international or national actors) by exploring the diplomatic and developmentalist politics of heritage-making at play and its transformational impact on societies. It also describes how local and outside states often collude with international mechanisms to further their interests at the expense of local communities and of citizens’ rights. Heritage as Aid and Diplomacy in Asia explores the following questions: Under the current international heritage regime, what are the mechanisms of—and the manipulations that take place within—ideological, political and cultural transmissions? What is heritage diplomacy and how can we conceptualize it? How do the complicated history and colonial past of Asia constitute the current practices of heritage diplomacy and shape heritage discourse in Asia? How do international organizations, nation-states, NGOs, heritage brokers and experts contribute to the history of the global heritage discourse? How has the flow of global knowledge been transferred and transformed? And how does the global hierarchy of cultural values function?
Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage and the Law
Author: Alberta Fabbricotti
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-09-09
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 1040132294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world has been shocked by the destruction of world cultural heritage sites over the past two decades, as seen in widely disseminated videos depicting events such as the demolition of the Buddhas of Bamiyan and the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra. These acts are perhaps the clearest and most glaring examples of what is meant by the ‘Intentional Destruction of the Cultural Heritage of Humankind’ (IDCHH). The book explores in detail the remedies against IDCHH available under international law. These remedies are defined as all the lawful responses provided for both by customary law and by the special responsibility regimes created under the many substantive areas of international law. The examination includes UNESCO instruments and UN measures for the maintenance of international peace, mechanisms for the protection of human rights and those for the protection of investments, and international criminal justice outcomes through the decisions of the Permanent Criminal Court. Thus, the book explores avenues for response such as appeals to international courts, peacekeeping operations and referrals to the criminal legislation of States, in addition to reparations. The concept of the Cultural Heritage of Humankind implies that IDCHH harms all States and all peoples and human groupings in the world, not only the State or people on whose territory the cultural property is located. The book identifies the international law avenues for subjects not directly injured by IDCHH to obtain its cessation and reparation. This book is essential reading for students, academics and practitioners exploring international law and the destruction of cultural heritage.
