World Heritage and Human Rights: Lessons from the Asia-Pacific and global arena

by Peter Bille Larsen (Editor)

Overview

The World Heritage community is currently adopting policies to mainstream human rights as part of a wider sustainability agenda. This interdisciplinary book combines a state of the art review of World Heritage policy and practice at the global level with ethnographic case studies from the Asia-Pacific region by leading scholars in the field. By joining legal reviews, anthropology and practitioner experience through in-depth case studies, it shows the diversity of human rights issues in both natural and cultural heritage sites.

From site-designation to their conservation and management, the book explores the various rights issues and analyses the diverse social, cultural and legal challenges and responses at both regional and global level. Detailed case studies are included from Australia, Cambodia, China, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, the Philippines and Vietnam. The book will appeal to both natural and cultural heritage professionals and human rights and heritage scholars, and will serve as a useful compendium for courses use allowing students to compare, contrast and contextualize different contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781315402765
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/20/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	348
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Peter Bille Larsen lectures in Anthropology, International Governance, Heritage Studies and Development Studies at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland. He has a strong interest in the intersection between conservation and social equity, including work in the fields of indigenous rights, World Heritage policy, human rights, as well as the anthropology of international politics.

Table of Contents

Introduction: World Heritage and Human Rights in the Asia Pacific and Global Arena Part I: Case Studies 2. The World Heritage Committee and Human Rights: Learning from Event Ethnography 3. World Heritage and Human Rights in Australia: from K’gari/Fraser Island to National Processes 4. Sambor Prei Kuk: Demarcating the Relationship between Religion and Cultural Heritage as Human Rights in Cambodia 5. Empowerment and Human Rights: Comparing Two Cultural Heritage Cases in Xi’an, China 6. World Heritage and Rights in Malaysia: A Case Study of Kinabalu Park World Heritage Site, Sabah 7. Cultural and Participation Rights in Bagan, Myanmar 8. Local Rights in World Heritage Sites: Learning from Post-Earthquake Rehabilitation Dynamics in the Kathmandu Valley 9. Vigan: World Heritage as a ‘Tool for Development’? 10. World Heritage and Ethnic Minority Rights in Phong Nha Ke Bang, Vietnam: Cosmopolitan Assemblages in Neoliberal Times Part II: Legal Reviews 11. The Inter-relationship of the World Heritage Convention and International Human Rights Law: A Preliminary Assessment and Outlook 12. Legal Frameworks for World Heritage and Human Rights in Australia 13. The World Heritage Convention and Human Rights in Nepal: A Review of Legal Norms and Practices 14. World Heritage and Human Rights Policy and Legislation in the Philippines 15. World Heritage and Human Rights Policy in Vietnam: A Legal Review Part III: Conclusions 16. (Re)structuring Rights and World Heritage Dynamics and Looking Towards the Future Annex 17. Caux Call for Action on Rights-Based Approaches in World Heritage

Editorial Reviews

"In this excellent volume Peter Bille Larsen carefully argues that while rights infringements associated with World Heritage listing and management processes have been too long ignored it is important to recognize the advances being made by many practitioners on the ground towards achieving stronger social justice at World Heritage sites. Larsen’s guarded optimism is supported by an admirable set of contributors providing original case studies and legal reviews that capture the changing situation in the Asia-Pacific region." - Professor William Logan, Deakin University, Australia

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