Title
The Heritage-scape: UNESCO, World Heritage, and Tourism
Files
Description
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."
ISBN
978-0739114346
Publication Date
12-16-2008
Publisher
Lexington Books
City
Lanham, MD
Disciplines
Social and Cultural Anthropology | Tourism
Recommended Citation
Di Giovine, Michael A., "The Heritage-scape: UNESCO, World Heritage, and Tourism" (2008). College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Books. 12.
https://digitalcommons.wcupa.edu/casfaculty_books/12