Unesco’s World Heritage Program

The Challenges and Ethics of Community Participation

Bibliographic Data

ID20076416
AuthorsM A Di Giovine (0000-0001-5348-8597, West Chester University, corresponding author), Michael Di Giovine
Year2017
Pages83-108
Publication date2017-04-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueBetween Imagined Communities and Communities of Practice - Participation, Territory and the Making of Heritage (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherGöttingen University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/books.gup.213
OpenAlexW2606114661
ISBN9783863952051
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited28

1 Introduction In the nearly fifty years since the 1972 World Heritage Convention was ratified, UNESCO’s flagship preservation program has transformed itself from an initiative valorizing primarily national parks and Western-style monuments to the keystone of a robust World Heritage Program that seeks to engage different communities with a common ethical narrative of “unity in diversity.” Yet UNESCO has been critiqued for its politicized and elitist nature; its inability to protect its World

Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Sociology · Spurious relationship · Computer Science · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Mathematics · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Philosophy · Religious Tourism and Spaces

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