A review of the Global Strategy for a balanced, representative and credible World Heritage List 1994–2004

Labadi, Sophia

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“…Reasons for this continued imbalance go beyond the mere revision of heritage concepts and "objective and scientific considerations" of the World Heritage Committee (UNESCO, 2013, p.6). One difficulty is the limited financial, administrative and human resources in countries of the Global South to prepare heritage inventories, protect heritage, and nominate sites for inscription (Labadi, 2005). Another reason, related to the former, is the lack of understanding and/or knowledge of the Convention, the Global Strategy, and the Operational Guidelines in some countries and their heritage community (Labadi, 2005;Stovel, 2008).…”

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“…One difficulty is the limited financial, administrative and human resources in countries of the Global South to prepare heritage inventories, protect heritage, and nominate sites for inscription (Labadi, 2005). Another reason, related to the former, is the lack of understanding and/or knowledge of the Convention, the Global Strategy, and the Operational Guidelines in some countries and their heritage community (Labadi, 2005;Stovel, 2008). Furthermore, heritage governance of most countries in the Global South is still based on the legislation and practices of their colonial era.…”

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“…Almost two-thirds of the States that are signatories to the Convention had never been elected to the World Heritage Committee. To ensure an equitable geo-cultural representation on the Committee, a number of resolutions have been adopted: to reserve a certain number of seats for State Parties who do not have sites inscribed on the World Heritage List; to invite States to voluntarily reduce their terms of office from six to four years and not seek consecutive terms of office (UNESCO, 2013); and to financially support the heritage experts and representatives from the developing countries on the Committee to increase their participation in the Committee activities (Labadi 2005). However, Steiner and Frey (2012) found that, after the implementation of the Global Strategy, the longer tenured countries obtained relatively more sites than did countries with shorter tenure in the Convention.…”

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“…In criterion (i), the original phrase 'unique artistic achievement' was seen as a measure encouraging primarily aesthetic considerations that favour high-style European heritage sites; it was replaced by 'masterpiece of human creative genius' (Cameron, 2009). In criterion (ii), the original phrase 'a nominated property should have exerted great influence' was also thought of favouring colonial values and histories; it was revised to state that 'a nominated property should exhibit an important interchange of human values' (Labadi 2005). Criterion (iii) was revised to include 'living' cultural traditions or civilizations, in addition to those that has disappeared (Labadi, 2005;Cameron, 2009).…”

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Paradigm Shifts in Global Heritage Discourse

Silva¹

2015

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This essay narrates the evolution of the UNESCO doctrine on cultural heritage, its Eurocentric underpinnings, the concerns of its doctrinal authority, and the course of its decolonization. Three principal themes in current heritage doctrine -universality, significance, and material originality of heritage -clearly represent the occidental thought that primarily frames contemporary conception of heritage. Based on literature review, the essay examines these themes showing (a) their European patrimony and the problems they pose in managing heritage of a diverse geo-cultural context; and (b) how debates within and beyond UNESCO challenged this persistent representation of heritage sites as original, static, and frozen in time and the resultant changes that redefined the discourse and attempted to address the geo-cultural imbalance in the World Heritage List. The essay argues that achieving geo-cultural balance in the World Heritage List does not necessarily promote further paradigm shifts in the heritage discourse. Yet, the List becomes a powerful catalyst to evoke the debate of decolonization globally and, most importantly, locally, by bringing the coloniality of heritage thinking, governance, and practice at the regional, national and local levels of the Global South into focus.

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“…In the operational guidelines and various publications (for example, ICOMOS 2005; Labadi 2005Labadi , 2007Van der Aa 2005), it is clear that there is much concern about the balance of the World Heritage list, because until recently the inscription process was dominated by European proposals. A simple overview of all inscribed properties (Fig.…”

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European and world archaeologies

Willems¹

2009

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Relations between European archaeologies and those elsewhere in the world are manifold and complex. They involve issues in archaeological research, in dealing with archaeological heritage resources, and in the archaeological profession, that are also influenced by the dominant use of English. This paper explores some of those issues that were also presented at a debate during the World Archaeological Congress in Dublin.

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