World Heritage and Human Rights

Lessons from the Asia-Pacific and global arena

Peter Bille Larsen (University of Lucerne, Switzerland)

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Routledge
16 November 2017

Museums & museology; Regional studies; Religion: general; Regional geography; Museum, historic sites, gallery & art guides

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.

Edited by: Peter Bille Larsen (University of Lucerne Switzerland)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 612g
ISBN: 9781138224216
ISBN 10: 1138224219
Pages: 326
Publication Date: 16 November 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

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

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