Safeguarding “Negative Historical Values” for the Future?: Appropriating the Past in the UNESCO Cultural World Heritage Site Auschwitz-Birkenau

Ab Imperio ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 (4) ◽  
pp. 130-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Röttjer
Keyword(s):  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
The Past ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cultural World

Discourses of Heritage and Tourism at a World Heritage Site: The Case of Hampi, India

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 29-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew LeDuc
Keyword(s):  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
The Past ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage Site ◽  
The World ◽  
Entire World ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Town

In the town of Hampi, India, the former capital of the Vijayanagara Empire and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the past remains very much alive. Devotees congregate at medieval-era temples; tourists from across India and the world marvel at the empire's fallen grandeur; and, up until quite recently, residents lived and worked in centuries-old stone mandapas (pavilions) lining both sides of the town's main street. The case of Hampi and its heritage illustrates a key question: do people have the right to live in historic monuments, particularly monuments that have been declared the patrimony not just of India, but of the entire world?

Forms of government and local community participation in the management of cultural World Heritage sites in Southeast Asia | รูปแบบของรัฐกับการมีส่วนร่วมของชุมชนท้องถิ่นในการจัดการแหล่งมรดกโลกทาง วัฒนธรรม ในเอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vithaya Arporn ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Local Community ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
World Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural World

This paper studied the management of three World Heritage sites in 3 countries of Southeast Asia : Malaysia, Laos, and Thailand. The results of this research show that a decentralized form of government in Southeast Asia provides opportunities for local communities to develop better participation in the World Heritage site management than the centralized forms of government. For local communities to contribute to the World Heritage philosophy, it is necessary to improve both the conceptual and practical aspects of the World Heritage Committee, Advisory organizations, and State Parties. They have to learn lessons and agree to work closely together. บทความนี้เลือกศึกษาการจัดการแหล่งมรดกโลกจำานวน 3 แหล่งในประเทศมาเลเซีย ลาว และไทย โดยใช้วิธีการ สำารวจเอกสาร ผลการศึกษาพบว่า รูปแบบของรัฐในเอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้ที่กระจายอำานาจจะเปิดโอกาสให้ ชุมชนท้องถิ่นสามารถพัฒนาการมีส่วนร่วมในการจัดการแหล่งมรดกโลกได้ดีกว่ารูปแบบรัฐที่รวบอำานาจ การที่จะ ให้ชุมชนท้องถิ่นมีส่วนร่วมตามปรัชญาของมรดกโลกจึงจะต้องปรับปรุงทั้งในส่วนของกรอบคิดและการปฏิบัติทั้งใน ส่วนของคณะกรรมการมรดกโลก องค์กรที่ปรึกษา และรัฐภาคี โดยต้องสรุปบทเรียนและยอมรับร่วมกันอย่างใกล้ ชิด

Influence of sensory experiences on tourists' emotions, destination memories, and loyalty

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Feifei Yang ◽  
Anmin Huang ◽  
Jie Huang
Keyword(s):  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Mediating Effects ◽  
Destination Loyalty ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Internal Mechanism ◽  
Cultural World ◽  
Positive Impacts

We examined the influence of tourists' sensory experiences on their destination loyalty, and the mediating effects of tourists' emotions and memories of their experience. Data were collected using a self-report survey from 304 tourists visiting Wuyi Mountain, a natural and cultural World Heritage Site in China. We found positive impacts of sensory experiences on emotions, memories, and loyalty; of emotions on memories and loyalty; and of experience memories on loyalty. Further, sensory experiences increased tourists' loyalty by positively influencing their memories, and sensory experiences positively affected tourists' memories by arousing their emotions, thereby affecting their loyalty. Our findings provide a deeper understanding of the internal mechanism of stimulating sensory experiences for enhancing tourist loyalty. Avenues for engaging tourists should address the effect of sensory experiences on emotions and destination memories.

Bridging Development and Heritage: Expert Gaze, Local Discourses, and Visual Aesthetic Crisis at Hampi World Heritage Site

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-99
Author(s):  
Krupa Rajangam
Keyword(s):  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
Developmental Needs ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Local Discourses ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Cultural World

In this article, I explore the complex trajectory of two bridges that were proposed for construction across the River Tungabhadra in the early 1990s at locations that now fall within the boundary of Hampi, a UNESCO Cultural World Heritage Site (WHS) in India. The proposed bridges were considered improper forms of infrastructure development in the visual context of a WHS, and the site was placed on the World Heritage in Danger List in the late 1990s. Popular media framed the controversy as a ‘classic clash’ between heritage and development where conservation goals and developmental needs opposed one another. Heritage experts, agencies, and activists read the crisis as one of ‘heritage or development’, normatively typecasting residents north of the river as ‘uneducated, ignorant locals’ wanting development at the cost of heritage. However, drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and archival material covering nearly three decades, I demonstrate that residents wanted the bridges not as physical infrastructure towards some obscure development goals, but as the means to link their overlooked contributions to the founding of the Vijayanagara Empire, the capital region and its contemporary remaking as a WHS. In this instance, the binary opposition lay in the ‘expert gaze’, not in local discourses. It was experts, rather than ‘local people’, who saw conservation and development as inherently opposed to each other. I explicate how various views on what constitutes heritage and development intersect with each other and suggest that dissonance need not be the inevitable result but may be built into the gaze of expertise.

Responses to Geoffrey Wainwright's report ‘The Stonehenge we deserve’, Antiquity 74 (2000): 334–42

Antiquity ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (286) ◽  
pp. 944-951 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Baxter ◽  
Christopher Chippindale ◽  
Kate Fielden ◽  
Wayland Kennet ◽  
Elizabeth Young
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Current View ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Many ◽  
Visitor Numbers

In June this year, we published Geoffrey Wainwright's paper on ‘The Stonehenge we deserve'. This paper aimed to provide a review of progress towards sorting out the many problems of management, presentation and conservation of this World Heritage site and its landscape. As readers of ANTIQUITY are well aware, the fortunes of Stonehenge are intimately linked with politics, money and public opinion, and the long saga of possible solutions to make the site a better place for the future rest on these changing variables. Dr Wainwright outlined past strategies and the hope of future solutions as they were early this year. Already things have changed and the invited responses which we publish here discuss the recent changes of plan for Stonehenge. Baxter & Chippindale review the difficulties of the ‘current’ scheme and its incompatibility with visitor numbers. Fielden exposes the incompatibility of the A303 proposals for Stonehenge with legislation and planning; and Kennet & Young raise the problems of the various Plans and politics.We sent these responses to Dr Wainwright for his current view of the situation.

scholarly journals Age control of the first appearance datum for Javanese Homo erectus in the Sangiran area

Science ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 367 (6474) ◽  
pp. 210-214
Author(s):  
Shuji Matsu’ura ◽  
Megumi Kondo ◽  
Tohru Danhara ◽  
Shuhei Sakata ◽  
Hideki Iwano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fission Track ◽  
World Heritage ◽  
Homo Erectus ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Early Pleistocene ◽  
The Past ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
The World ◽  
Uranium Lead Dating

The chronology of the World Heritage Site of Sangiran in Indonesia is crucial for the understanding of human dispersals and settlement in Asia in the Early Pleistocene (before 780,000 years ago). It has been controversial, however, especially regarding the timing of the earliest hominin migration into the Sangiran region. We use a method of combining fission-track and uranium-lead dating and present key ages to calibrate the lower (older) Sangiran hominin-bearing horizons. We conclude that the first appearance datum for the Sangiran hominins is most likely ~1.3 million years ago and less than 1.5 million years ago, which is markedly later than the dates that have been widely accepted for the past two decades.

scholarly journals Friction or Closure: Heritage as Loss

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 1299-1318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikela Lundahl
Keyword(s):  
World Heritage ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
The Political ◽  
Unesco World Heritage ◽  
The Past ◽  
Heritage Site ◽  
Unesco World Heritage Site ◽  
Specific Material ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Different Sources

Heritage is a discourse that aims at closure. It fixates the narrative of the past through the celebration of specific material (or sometimes immaterial non-) objects. It organizes temporality and construct events and freezes time. How does this unfold in the case of the UNESCO World Heritage site of Stone Town, Zanzibar? It is a place of beauty and violence, of trade, slavery and tourism, and the World Heritage narrative does not accommodate all its significant historical facts and lived memories. In this article I will discuss some of these conflicting or competing historical facts. The anthropologist Anna Tsing has developed the concept-metaphor friction as a way to discuss the energy created when various actors narrate “the same” event(s) in different ways, and see the other participants’ accounts as fantasies or even fabrications. I will use my position as researcher and my relations to different sources: informants, authorities and texts, and discuss how different accounts relate to and partly construct each other; and how I, in my own process as an analyst and listener, negotiate these conflicting stories, what I identify as valid and non valid accounts. The case in this article is Stone Town in Zanzibar and the development and dissolution going on under the shadow of the UNESCO World Heritage flag; a growing tourism; a global and local increase in islamisation; and the political tension within the Tanzanian union. My main focus is narratives of the identity of Zanzibar since heritagization constructs identity.

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