The world is not enough
New diplomacy and dilemmas for the World Heritage Convention at 50
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4282591 |
|---|---|
| Authors | L Meskell (0000-0001-9087-3611, Penn Center for AIDS Research, corresponding author), Claudia Liuzza (0000-0001-8026-1187, Duke University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 391-407 |
| Publication date | 2022-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Cultural Property (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0940-7391 • E-ISSN: 1465-7317 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0940739122000030 |
| OpenAlex | W4298002259 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 30 |
In this article, we reflect on the current socio-political context of the 1972 World Heritage Convention after 50 years rather than its significant achievements and trials throughout its turbulent history. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has already documented and publicized these formative episodes. Instead, we consider the World Heritage milieu today, embedded as it is within a much broader landscape of non-governmental organizations and civil society preservation initiatives than it was five decades ago. Like other United Nations agencies, UNESCO now faces challenges arising from various types of re-spatialization beyond the nation-state that further impact its effectiveness. Those challenges encompass not only the expansive force of globalization but also regionalization and localization, all of which have given rise to a new diplomacy. We discuss the proliferation of competing international agencies and individual donors, then describe the dilemmas facing World Heritage, including the rise of non-state actors and post-conflict remediation in the Middle East, the limited recognition of Indigenous Peoples and their role in decision making, and the persistent failures to remedy the inequitable position of Africa as a priority region
Context (archaeology · Convention · Cultural heritage · Development economics · Diplomacy · Economic growth · Geography · Indigenous · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science · Archaeological Research and Protection · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Cultural Identity and Heritage · Law · Public Administration
The Wealth Gap in World Heritage—Economic Disparity and State Fragility as Factors of World Heritage Preservation
Kilka słów krytycznych przy okazji jubileuszu 50-lecia Konwencji Unesco z 1972 roku
Reconstruction across the Middle East
Deploying destruction
Struggle for space
State effects in heritage regimes
Serial properties and heritage interpretation. Lessons from the Israeli Biblical Tels inscription
Heritage Conflict and the Council
Indigenous Advocacy and the Compliance Mechanisms of the World Heritage Convention
World Heritage Sites and the question of scale in governance and politics
Celebrity and the Environment
The Oxford Handbook of International Cultural Heritage Law
Gas, Oil and Heritage
A review of the Global Strategy for a balanced, representative and credible World Heritage List 1994–2004
Transacting Unesco World Heritage
Naming, Shaming and Fire Alarms
Power, persuasion and preservation
Science diplomacy and transnational governance impact
The Boundaries of Public Diplomacy and Nonstate Actors
To Exercise in All Loyalty, Discretion and Conscience’
Shifting the balance of power in the Unesco World Heritage Committee
The New Diplomacy
Unesco, world heritage and the gridlock over Yemen
Philanthrocapitalism
The Politics of Peril
The politicization of Unesco World Heritage decision making
An Idea and its Servants
World Heritage Regionalism
Democracy and Multilateralism
Unesco's project to 'Revive the Spirit of Mosul
Multilateralism and Unesco World Heritage
Indigenous Peoples, World Heritage, and Human Rights
Unesco and the Fate of the World Heritage Indigenous Peoples Council of Experts (WHIPCOE)
States of Conservation
The Upstream Process
Representations of the nation and cultural diversity in discourses on World Heritage
| Citations per year | 3.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |