Unesco, Cultural Heritage, And Outstanding Universal Value: Value-based Analyses Of The World Heritage And Intangible Cultural Heritage Conventions (archaeology In Society)
by Sophia Labadi /
2012 / English / PDF
1.2 MB Download
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.
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.