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Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena

Christoph Brumann (Autor)

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2021
316 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-83695-972-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Christoph Brumann is Head of Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, and Honorary Professor of Anthropology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. His books include World Heritage on the Ground: Ethnographic Perspectives (co-edited with David Berliner, Berghahn Books, 2016) and Tradition, Democracy and the Townscape of Kyoto: Claiming a Right to the Past (Routledge, 2012).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.3.2021
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater
• Schlagworte: anthropology of the United Nations • Brasilia 2010 • canonisation of Roman Catholic saints • conflict • cultural consecration • culture concept • diplomats • Elections • Experts • Global Inequality • global strategy • growth • ICOMOS • IMF • Indigenous rights • Integrity • IUCN • Jerusalem • Kakadu National Park • Korean forced labour • Northern hegemony • Outstanding universal value • Preah Vihear • UNESCO safeguarding campaigns • World Bank • World Heritage • World Heritage Centre • world heritage committee • World Heritage Committee sessions
• ISBN-10: 1-83695-972-9 / 1836959729
• ISBN-13: 978-1-83695-972-4 / 9781836959724