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The heritage-scape : UNESCO, world heritage, and tourism /​ Michael A. Di Giovine. UNESCO, world heritage, and tourism Michael A. Di Giovine.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lanham Lexington Books c2009.Description: viii, 519 pages, [14] p. of plates ill. 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780739114346 (cloth : alk. paper
  • 0739114344 (cloth : alk. paper
  • 9780739114353 (pbk. : alk. paper
  • 0739114352 (pbk. : alk. paper
  • 9780739131442 (electronic
  • 0739131443 (electronic
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.4791 GIO
Contents:
Contents: Introduction. Traveling Across Stones that Speak Ch. 1. Mediating World Heritage: Authenticity and Fields of Production in Tourism and Heritage Ch. 2. The Heritage-scape: UNESCO's Globalizing Endeavor Ch. 3. Unity in Diversity: The Heritage-scape's Meta-Narrative Claim Ch. 4. Tourism: The Heritage-scape's Ritual Interaction Ch. 5. Converting Localities into Universal Heritage Ch. 6. Politics and Personalities Within the Heritage-scape: Narratives of Nature and Culture in Vietnam Ch. 7. Museumification of Local Cultures: Ha Long Bay and Hoi An Ch. 8. Creating the Drama of the Destination: Managing, Interpreting and Branding World Heritage Sites Ch. 9. Preserving the Past: The Heritage-scape and Historic Preservation Ch. 10. Problematics of Preservation: Narrative and Practice at the Angkor Archaeological Park Ch. 11. Raising Awareness, Re-Presenting the Heritage-scape: Fragmentary and Reproducible Re-Presentations. Conclusion: The Future of the Heritage-scape. Ch. 3. Unity in Diversity: The Heritage-scape's Meta-Narrative Claim Ch. 4. Tourism: The Heritage-scape's Ritual Interaction Ch. 5. Converting Localities into Universal Heritage Ch. 6. Politics and Personalities Within the Heritage-scape: Narratives of Nature and Culture in Vietnam Ch. 7. Museumification of Local Cultures: Ha Long Bay and Hoi An Ch. 8. Creating the Drama of the Destination: Managing, Interpreting and Branding World Heritage Sites Ch. 9. Preserving the Past: The Heritage-scape and Historic Preservation Ch. 10. Problematics of Preservation: Narrative and Practice at the Angkor Archaeological Park Ch. 11. Raising Awareness, Re-Presenting the Heritage-scape: Fragmentary and Reproducible Re-Presentations. Conclusion: The Future of the Heritage-scape. Ch. 10. Problematics of Preservation: Narrative and Practice at the Angkor Archaeological Park Ch. 11. Raising Awareness, Re-Presenting the Heritage-scape: Fragmentary and Reproducible Re-Presentations. Conclusion: The Future of the Heritage-scape.
Summary: Summary: "Anthropologist and former tour operator Michael Di Giovine draws on ethnographic fieldwork, close policy analysis of UNESCO's major documents, and professional experiences in Southeast Asia and Europe to provide a detailed examination of UNESCO's unusual effort to harness the phenomenon of globalization and the existence of cultural diversity for the purpose of creating "peace in the minds of men" through its World Heritage program. He convincingly argues that UNESCO's designations are not impotent political performances that lead to the commercialization of local monuments for a touristic superstructure, but instead the building blocks of a new world system, an imaginative re-ordering of the world that knows no geopolitical boundaries but exists in the individual "minds of men." Di Giovine terms this system the heritage-scape, a real social structure that extends unbridled across the globe, spreading its mantra of "unity in diversity." Written for social scientists, heritage and tourism professionals, and the educated traveler, The Heritage-scape is an insightful, detailed, and expansive look at the politics and processes, histories and structures, and rituals and symbolisms of the interrelated phenomena of tourism, historic preservation, and UNESCO's World Heritage Program in Viet Nam, Cambodia, and across the world."--Publisher description.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 477-499) and index.

Contents: Introduction. Traveling Across Stones that Speak Ch. 1. Mediating World Heritage: Authenticity and Fields of Production in Tourism and Heritage Ch. 2. The Heritage-scape: UNESCO's Globalizing Endeavor Ch. 3. Unity in Diversity: The Heritage-scape's Meta-Narrative Claim Ch. 4. Tourism: The Heritage-scape's Ritual Interaction Ch. 5. Converting Localities into Universal Heritage Ch. 6. Politics and Personalities Within the Heritage-scape: Narratives of Nature and Culture in Vietnam Ch. 7. Museumification of Local Cultures: Ha Long Bay and Hoi An Ch. 8. Creating the Drama of the Destination: Managing, Interpreting and Branding World Heritage Sites Ch. 9. Preserving the Past: The Heritage-scape and Historic Preservation Ch. 10. Problematics of Preservation: Narrative and Practice at the Angkor Archaeological Park Ch. 11. Raising Awareness, Re-Presenting the Heritage-scape: Fragmentary and Reproducible Re-Presentations. Conclusion: The Future of the Heritage-scape. Ch. 3. Unity in Diversity: The Heritage-scape's Meta-Narrative Claim Ch. 4. Tourism: The Heritage-scape's Ritual Interaction Ch. 5. Converting Localities into Universal Heritage Ch. 6. Politics and Personalities Within the Heritage-scape: Narratives of Nature and Culture in Vietnam Ch. 7. Museumification of Local Cultures: Ha Long Bay and Hoi An Ch. 8. Creating the Drama of the Destination: Managing, Interpreting and Branding World Heritage Sites Ch. 9. Preserving the Past: The Heritage-scape and Historic Preservation Ch. 10. Problematics of Preservation: Narrative and Practice at the Angkor Archaeological Park Ch. 11. Raising Awareness, Re-Presenting the Heritage-scape: Fragmentary and Reproducible Re-Presentations. Conclusion: The Future of the Heritage-scape. Ch. 10. Problematics of Preservation: Narrative and Practice at the Angkor Archaeological Park Ch. 11. Raising Awareness, Re-Presenting the Heritage-scape: Fragmentary and Reproducible Re-Presentations. Conclusion: The Future of the Heritage-scape.

Summary: "Anthropologist and former tour operator Michael Di Giovine draws on ethnographic fieldwork, close policy analysis of UNESCO's major documents, and professional experiences in Southeast Asia and Europe to provide a detailed examination of UNESCO's unusual effort to harness the phenomenon of globalization and the existence of cultural diversity for the purpose of creating "peace in the minds of men" through its World Heritage program. He convincingly argues that UNESCO's designations are not impotent political performances that lead to the commercialization of local monuments for a touristic superstructure, but instead the building blocks of a new world system, an imaginative re-ordering of the world that knows no geopolitical boundaries but exists in the individual "minds of men." Di Giovine terms this system the heritage-scape, a real social structure that extends unbridled across the globe, spreading its mantra of "unity in diversity." Written for social scientists, heritage and tourism professionals, and the educated traveler, The Heritage-scape is an insightful, detailed, and expansive look at the politics and processes, histories and structures, and rituals and symbolisms of the interrelated phenomena of tourism, historic preservation, and UNESCO's World Heritage Program in Viet Nam, Cambodia, and across the world."--Publisher description.

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