Experts in the World Heritage Regime - James, Luke
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Addressing the topic of expertise in international cultural conservation, this book argues that the UNESCO World Heritage regime emerged as a Faustian pact between protection and prestige, and a productive tension between these elements remains at its core, embodied by the heritage expert. Tracing experts' practices in the World Heritage regime, this book shows how they burnish, broker and themselves benefit from World Heritage prestige. As World Heritage prestige also contributes to states' international status claims, the stakes are raised, with both the denouement of the pact and the future…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Addressing the topic of expertise in international cultural conservation, this book argues that the UNESCO World Heritage regime emerged as a Faustian pact between protection and prestige, and a productive tension between these elements remains at its core, embodied by the heritage expert. Tracing experts' practices in the World Heritage regime, this book shows how they burnish, broker and themselves benefit from World Heritage prestige. As World Heritage prestige also contributes to states' international status claims, the stakes are raised, with both the denouement of the pact and the future for World Heritage poised between condemnation and redemption.

Autorenporträt
Luke James is a heritage studies scholar, lawyer and heritage practitioner specialising in World Heritage and international conservation governance. Luke is Lecturer, Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University and previously worked in the Australian Government's International Heritage Section, with UNESCO and as a heritage consultant.
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"This book sets out to open the World Heritage listing process up to daylight and its author has done that very, very thoroughly! ... He writes well and, especially for the small pool of us who have had more than 50 years of connection to the World Heritage Convention, the book is fascinating. I commend him for his work." (Max Bourke, Australian Garden History Society, gardenhistorysociety.org.au, September 22, 2024)