World Heritage Management and Human Rights
This book focuses on the balance between protecting human rights and protecting world heritage sites. It concerns itself with the idea that the management of heritage properties worldwide may fail to adequately respect traditional entitlements and rights of individuals and communities living within or being affected by changes in the use of these spaces. It also explores the concept that the international heritage field has limited knowledge and awareness of this challenge.
The volume argues that the dilemmas in question result from different conceptualisations of the key terms of rights, heritage and community among different groups and across political and cultural boundaries. In so far as culture is what enables us to read the meanings involved, the ultimate questions are those that ask whose power is contested when one meaning is fixed and the heritage of one group of humans is given the right to have its symbolic representation enjoyed and protected. The included case studies give vivid examples of this.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Heritage Studies.
Stener Ekern is Associate Professor at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway.
William Logan is Emeritus Professor at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia; fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences, and a previous President of ICOMOS Australia (19992002).
Birgitte Sauge is Senior Curator at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway, and member of the board of ICOMOS Norway.
Amund Sinding-Larsen is a Chartered Architect and Heritage Advisor, with a Doctoral Degree in Architecture from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway; a past President of ICOMOS Norway.
World Heritage Management and Human Rights
Edited by
Stener Ekern, William Logan, Birgitte Sauge and Amund Sinding-Larsen
First published 2015
by Routledge
2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 4RN, UK
and by Routledge
711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA
Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business
2015 Taylor & Francis
Chapter 11: All figures (17) CRAterre Thierry Joffroy
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 13: 9781138833616
ePub eISBN 13: 9781317562962
Mobipocket/Kindle eISBN 13: 9781317562955
Typeset in Times New Roman
by RefineCatch Limited, Bungay, Suffolk
Publishers Note
The publisher accepts responsibility for any inconsistencies that may have arisen during the conversion of this book from journal articles to book chapters, namely the possible inclusion of journal terminology.
Disclaimer
Every effort has been made to contact copyright holders for their permission to reprint material in this book. The publishers would be grateful to hear from any copyright holder who is not here acknowledged and will undertake to rectify any errors or omissions in future editions of this book.
Contents
Foreword
Amund Sinding-Larsen
Stener Ekern, William Logan, Birgitte Sauge and Amund Sinding-Larsen
Jukka Jokilehto
William Logan
Neil A. Silberman
Gro B. Ween
Peter Stone
Gonzalo Oviedo and Tatjana Puschkarsky
Amund Sinding-Larsen
Katarzyna Zalasiska and Katarzyna Piotrowska
Eman Assi
Ali Ould Sidi
Bente Mathisen
Clara Arokiasamy
The following chapters were originally published in the International Journal of Heritage Studies, volume 18, issue 3 (May 2012). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Chapter 1
Human rights and World Heritage: preserving our common dignity through rights-based approaches to site management
Stener Ekern, William Logan, Birgitte Sauge and Amund Sinding-Larsen
International Journal of Heritage Studies, volume 18, issue 3 (May 2012) pp. 213225
Chapter 2
Human rights and cultural heritage. Observations on the recognition of human rights in the international doctrine
Jukka Jokilehto
International Journal of Heritage Studies, volume 18, issue 3 (May 2012) pp. 226230
Chapter 3
Cultural diversity, cultural heritage and human rights: towards heritage management as human rights-based cultural practice
William Logan
International Journal of Heritage Studies, volume 18, issue 3 (May 2012) pp. 231244
Chapter 4
Heritage interpretation and human rights: documenting diversity, expressing identity, or establishing universal principles?
Neil A. Silberman
International Journal of Heritage Studies, volume 18, issue 3 (May 2012) pp. 245256
Chapter 5
World Heritage and Indigenous rights: Norwegian examples
Gro B. Ween
International Journal of Heritage Studies, volume 18, issue 3 (May 2012) pp. 257270
Chapter 6
Human rights and cultural property protection in times of conflict
Peter Stone
International Journal of Heritage Studies, volume 18, issue 3 (May 2012) pp. 271284
Chapter 7
World Heritage and rights-based approaches to nature conservation
Gonzalo Oviedo and Tatjana Puschkarsky
International Journal of Heritage Studies, volume 18, issue 3 (May 2012) pp. 285296
Chapter 8
Lhasa community, world heritage and human rights
Amund Sinding-Larsen
International Journal of Heritage Studies, volume 18, issue 3 (May 2012) pp. 297306
Chapter 9
Kalwaria Zebrzydowska cultural landscape
Katarzyna Zalasiska and Katarzyna Piotrowska
International Journal of Heritage Studies, volume 18, issue 3 (May 2012) pp. 307315
Chapter 10
World heritage sites, human rights and cultural heritage in Palestine
Eman Assi
International Journal of Heritage Studies, volume 18, issue 3 (May 2012) pp. 316323
Chapter 11
Maintaining Timbuktus unique tangible and intangible heritage
Ali Ould Sidi
International Journal of Heritage Studies, volume 18, issue 3 (May 2012) pp. 324331
Chapter 12
East Africa World Heritage Network and stakeholder priorities
Bente Mathisen
International Journal of Heritage Studies, volume 18, issue 3 (May 2012) pp. 332338