The best we share : nation, culture and world-making in the UNESCO World Heritage arena / Christoph Brumann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brumann, Christoph, author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World Heritage Committee.

World Heritage areas--Management.

World Heritage areas.

Cultural property--Protection--International cooperation.

Cultural property.

Cultural property--Protection--Decision making.

Physical Description:

xi, 303 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn, 2023.

Summary:

"The UNESCO World Heritage Convention is one of the most widely ratified international treaties, and a place on the World Heritage List is a widely coveted mark of distinction. Building on ethnographic fieldwork at Committee sessions, interviews and documentary study, the book links the change in operations of the World Heritage Committee with structural nation-centeredness, vulnerable procedures for evaluation, monitoring and decision-making, and loose heritage conceptions that have been inconsistently applied. As the most ambitious study of the World Heritage arena so far, this volume dissects the inner workings of a prominent global body, demonstrating the power of ethnography in the highly formalised and diplomatic context of a multilateral organisation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A day in the life of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee

The promise of world heritage

Fulfilling the promise

Rebellion and peace

The nation state

Procedures

Concepts

Global North and South

Conclusion. Utopian remnants and the logic of growth.

Notes:

First published: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Brumann, Christoph. Best we share

ISBN:

9781800739468

180073946X

OCLC:

1348922442

Publisher Number:

99995212924