Schmitt T (2015)
Publication Language: English
Publication Type: Other publication type
Publication year: 2015
Publisher: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity
Series: MMG Working Papers
City/Town: Göttingen
Book Volume: 15-05
The adoption of the World Heritage Convention by the UNESCO General Conference
in 1972 marked the creation of an international regime for the protection
of cultural and natural objects, sites and landscapes of outstanding universal value.
Despite the vast number of academic publications relating to heritage – especially in
Geography and related disciplines – there has to date been no independent analysis
in the Anglophone literature on the World Heritage system using regime theory categories
borrowed from International Relations. The paper attempts to close this gap
by examining the World Heritage regime, its mechanisms and effects. In particular it
systematizes the various effects of global regime authorities at World Heritage sites
and landscapes, and interactions between global and local actors. This approach
could also be significant for the discussion of glocalization phenomena.
APA:
Schmitt, T. (2015). UNESCO as a Red Cross or as a notary of World Heritage? Structures, scale-related interactions and efficacy of UNESCO’s World Heritage regime. Göttingen: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity.
MLA:
Schmitt, Thomas. UNESCO as a Red Cross or as a notary of World Heritage? Structures, scale-related interactions and efficacy of UNESCO’s World Heritage regime. Göttingen: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, 2015.
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