Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction: World Heritage and Human Rights in the Asia Pacific and Global Arena Part I: Case Studies 2. The World Heritage Committee and Human Rights: Learning from Event Ethnography 3. World Heritage and Human Rights in Australia: from K'gari/Fraser Island to National Processes 4. Sambor Prei Kuk: Demarcating the Relationship between Religion and Cultural Heritage as Human Rights in Cambodia 5. Empowerment and Human Rights: Comparing Two Cultural Heritage Cases in Xi'an, China 6. World Heritage and Rights in Malaysia: A Case Study of Kinabalu Park World Heritage Site, Sabah 7. Cultural and Participation Rights in Bagan, Myanmar 8. Local Rights in World Heritage Sites: Learning from Post-Earthquake Rehabilitation Dynamics in the Kathmandu Valley 9. Vigan: World Heritage as a 'Tool for Development'? 10. World Heritage and Ethnic Minority Rights in Phong Nha Ke Bang, Vietnam: Cosmopolitan Assemblages in Neoliberal Times Part II: Legal Reviews 11. The Inter-relationship of the World Heritage Convention and International Human Rights Law: A Preliminary Assessment and Outlook 12. Legal Frameworks for World Heritage and Human Rights in Australia 13. The World Heritage Convention and Human Rights in Nepal: A Review of Legal Norms and Practices 14. World Heritage and Human Rights Policy and Legislation in the Philippines 15. World Heritage and Human Rights Policy in Vietnam: A Legal Review Part III: Conclusions 16. (Re)structuring Rights and World Heritage Dynamics and Looking Towards the Future Annex 17. Caux Call for Action on Rights-Based Approaches in World Heritage
