World Heritage and the Nation-State: A View from Palestine
The universalizing project of World Heritage aims to transcend the heritage logic of the nation-state, particularly so after its more recent reforms that emphasize the role of the grassroots and of cultural diversity.143 The objective of this UNESCO program is to identify, help preserve, and promote sites and monuments deemed to be of universal significance – i.e. relevant beyond the borders of the states within which they are located – which are to constitute the elements of a shared memory of humanity able to foster a global sense of human commonality and intellectual solidarity.144 In opposition to UNESCO’s self-image, in this essay I show how World Heritage not ...
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