The Best We Share

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

Christoph Brumann (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

316 Seiten

2023
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-946-8 (ISBN)

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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.

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).

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. A Day in the Life of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee

Chapter 2. The Promise of World Heritage

Chapter 3. Fulfilling the Promise

Chapter 4. Rebellion and Peace

Chapter 5. The Nation State

Chapter 6. Procedures

Chapter 7. Concepts

Chapter 8. Global North and South

Conclusion: Utopian Remnants and the Logic of Growth

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	21.03.2023
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-946-X / 180073946X
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-946-8 / 9781800739468
Zustand	Neuware