UNESCO, cultural heritage, and outstanding universal value2012

"Explores the international legal framework developed by UNESCO to identify and protect world heritage, as well as its implementation at the national level. Drawing on close policy analysis of UNESCO's major documents and extensive professional experience at UNESCO, as well as in-depth analyses of case studies from Asia, Europe, and Latin America, Sophia Labadi offers a nuanced discussion of the constitutive role of national understandings of a universalist framework. The discussion departs from considerations of the World Heritage Convention as Eurocentric and offers a more complex analysis of how official narratives relating to non-European and non-traditional heritage mark a subversion of the dominant and canonical European representation of heritage. This book engages simultaneously...