World Heritage Patinas (eBook)

This book presents studies on the management of the Brazilian world heritage and its international counterparts, relating its preservationist practices to the risks and alerts that run its maintenance in the face of so many challenges in the contemporary world. The book has encouraged scholars from a wide variety of disciplines to contribute their valuable knowledge to research on the management and risks of Brazil's world heritage. It is a bold initiative that brings together contemporary studies on management, alerts and risks of the Brazilian world heritage and some international examples. It stands out not only for its interdisciplinary approach, but above all for compiling a wide range of approaches that analyze various dimensions of world heritage management.

Unique experience in the management of world heritage allocated to Brazilian territory, this book was written by prominent academics and heritage management professionals and includes national and international case studies. It is a comprehensive academic book in Brazilian world heritage management literature and can therefore be used as an authoritative reference source as well as a significant teaching tool.

?Rodrigo Christofoletti PhD in History, Politics and Cultural Property from Fundação Getulio Vargas (2010). He is currently a professor of Cultural Heritage in the History course at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), and teaches in the Pos Graduate Program at the same university. He coordinated the Specialization Course in History and Culture in Contemporary Brazil (Ead) at CEAD-UFJF (2017-2019) and the Collections Section of CECOM - UFJF Memory Conservation Center. From 2004 to 2016 he was an educator at the National Monument Ruins Engenho São Jorge dos Erasmos - USP. He is a researcher at LAPA - UFJF Heritage Laboratory and collaborator at CITCEM - Transdisciplinary Research Center 'Culture, Space and Memory' at the University of Letters of Porto (ULP). He is leader of the research group Cnpq - Patrimony and International Relations. He has been a member of COMPPAC - Municipal Council for the Preservation of the Historic Heritage of Juiz de Fora, since 2019. He coordinates the Human Sciences area of PISM (Mixed Selective Admission Program) at UFJF. He has experience in the field of political history and cultural goods with an emphasis on Cultural Heritage, acting mainly on the following themes: heritage - cultural goods - heritage education, heritage of humanity, political history of the Brazilian right and Integralism.