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Negotiating the meaning of global heritage: ‘cultural landscapes’ in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, 1972–92*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 October 2013

Aurélie Elisa Gfeller*
Affiliation:
The Graduate Institute, Maison de la Paix, Ch. Eugène Rigot 2, CH-1202 Geneva, Switzerland E-mail: aurelie.gfeller@graduateinstitute.ch

Abstract

This article offers new historical analysis of global heritage by tracking the evolution of heritage concepts. Specifically, it analyses the introduction of the category of ‘cultural landscapes’ in the UNESCO World Heritage Convention in 1992, using it as a lens through which to view the process of international (re)negotiation of the meaning of heritage. It shows that this reform resulted from the cooperation of competing actors – including experts, non-governmental organizations, and governments – that harboured different visions of culture and nature and their interrelationship. It also demonstrates that the recognition of cultural landscapes as a heritage category marked the new assertiveness of actors from post-settler states in North America and Oceania, as opposed to Europe, which had dominated global heritage until that point.

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Footnotes

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The author wishes to thank David Jacques, Darwina Neal, and Bernd von Droste for making some of their private papers available, as well as Susan Buggey, Christina Cameron, Henry Cleere, David Jacques, Nora Mitchell, Marielle Richon, Mechtild Rössler, and Sarah Titchen for sharing their recollections. The author also thanks Sunil Amrith, Christoph Brumann, Lisa Komar, André Liebich, Kiran Patel, and Francesca Piana, as well as two anonymous reviewers, for their valuable comments and suggestions. This article was written as part of a research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (PZ00P1_136869/1).

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127 I owe this explanation to a long-time insider, Christina Cameron (interview with the author, Ottawa, 15 April 2013).

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129 Ibid.

130 Christina Cameron, email to the author, 5 July 2013.