The uses of history in international society: from the Paris peace conference to the present

MacMillan, Margaret; Quinton-Brown, Patrick

doi:10.1093/ia/iiy238

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“…Since its birth, heritage 'making' has been used as part of the 'constitutive role of history in international deliberations over the creation, fragmentation and transformation of nation-states'. 83 The formation of national identities has generally relied on 'a coherent national heritage that could be marshaled to fend off the counter-claims of other groups and nations'. 84 Simply put, heritage is used to create/reinforce a sense of common national past, and heritage sites have always been enmeshed in national agendas.…”

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UNESCO’s World Heritage List: power, national interest, and expertise

Farias

2022

International Relations

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With almost universal membership, the World Heritage Convention is at the heart of the global governance of heritage. Nested within UNESCO, the Convention sets the parameters for determining which natural and/or cultural sites can receive the prestigious ‘World Heritage Property’ designation and be added to the World Heritage List. What started in the early 1970s as an expert-based classification procedure focused on heritage preservation has become an ostensive political process, and a hotbed of competing nations interested in the domestic and international power deriving from inscriptions in the World Heritage List. This paper takes this empirical case as a springboard to reflect upon two key interrelated issues: the politicization of expertise and classification by International Organizations, and heritage as a national identity project and projection of ‘soft power’. In doing so, it highlights how changes in the global system since the late 19th century – for example, colonialism, Cold War, ‘emerging’ powers – affected the global politics of heritage. The paper adds to the incredibly trans-disciplinary field of world heritage research by anchoring itself in International Relations literature, mostly through a Constructivist-based approach.

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Section: National Heritage Power and International Identitymentioning

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UNESCO’s World Heritage List: power, national interest, and expertise

Farias

2022

International Relations

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The uses of history in international society: from the Paris peace conference to the present

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UNESCO’s World Heritage List: power, national interest, and expertise

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