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Journal of Social Archaeology
A bureaucracy of care in managing Hampi World Heritage Site
2019 •
Krupa Rajangam
In this paper I examine the ‘heritage regime’ instituted at Hampi, Karnataka, India, consequent to its inscription as World Heritage, by analysing everyday material practices of conservation-management at the site through the lens of ‘care’. I argue that the regime is undoubtedly a bureaucracy as popularly imagined but of care premised on knowledge and not of apathy. I suggest that various on-going contestations amongst social actors is over the appropriateness of care, based on a particular visual aesthetic, which results in spatio-temporal material alienation of resident communities. Confusing consequence for cause, practice seeks to ‘engage’ with people whose alienation from ‘official’ heritage they are party to, which inevitably leading to everyday ‘heartbreak’ for experts, disillusionment among residents, and conflicted position for local heritage agencies, albeit unintentionally.
"Anthropological Notebooks" 23: 3, p. 19-43
Taxonomic Panic and the Art of "Making Do" at a Heritage Site: The Case of Hampi UNESCO Site, India
2017 •
Natalia Bloch
The article seeks reasons behind the "spatial cleansing" that was initiated at the Hampi UNESCO World Heritage site in India in 2011, and resulted in a significant number of residents being evicted. The local authorities, supported by archaeological bodies and tourism agencies, first targeted the medieval bazaar where people lived and worked within an informal tourism sector. I argue that this was the outcome of a "taxonomic panic", caused by the fear by authorities of a "confusion of categories". I analyse how the official representations of Hampi's landscape, created by archaeologists and tourism specialists, reveal this panic. I also demonstrate how the residents of a disappearing village responded to the authorities' way of imagining and managing the site by employing different practices of making do. The article is based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Hampi as well as on secondary data.
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF PROTECTED AREAS ACCORDING TO THE UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE CONVENTION AND IUCN CATEGORIES
Bernd Paulowitz
Best practices in world heritage: people and communities: July 2015
2015 •
ALICIA CASTILLO
Living Heritage at Risk (with G Michell, 2012)
2012 •
John Fritz
Searching for a new approach to development, tourism, and local needs at the grand medieval city of Hampi
Journal of UTEC Engineering Management
Integrated Heritage Conservation: Exploring the Role of Community Participation in the Conservation of Thimi
2023 •
Buddhi Raj Joshi
The sustainability of cultural heritage resources is strongly linked to the effective participation of local communities in the conservation and management of these resources. Integrated heritage conservation is assumed to be an appropriate conservation approach specifically to promote inclusive participation of local communities and sustainable community development in the historic settlements. In this context, considering the case of historic town of Thimi, this study aims to explore the existing context and role of community participation in the planning and conservation of heritage resources and also investigate the context of integrated conservation. Multiple tools of data collection such as Key informant’s interview, household’s surveys, participant observation, informal discussion and archival research have been used. Findings demonstrate that continuous decay and destruction of cultural heritages in Thimi have threatened its unique identity and the traditionally wellsustaine...
PLURAL. History, Culture, Society
Sergiu Musteata, The State of Conservation and Periodic Reporting – A Way for Better Preservation and Sustainable Development of the World Heritage Sites
2020 •
Sergiu Musteata
Since 1972 UNESCO has established a frame of protection for cultural and natural heritage (Convention concerning the protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage) and the “World Heritage List”, which it considers as having outstanding universal value. In 1994, at the Nara Conference, the Document on Authenticity was established, stating that “the protection and enhancement of cultural and heritage diversity in our world should be actively promoted as an essential aspect of human development”. Today, many factors affect the authenticity and integrity of cultural heritage: intensive tourism, excessive restoration works, new inappropriate investments or uncorrelated private interventions, etc. The debates on cultural heritage research, preservation and management have increased in recent years as the effect of UNESCO standards, namely to establish “an effective system of collective protection of the cultural and natural heritage of outstanding universal value, organized on a p...
International Conference ”Past for the future and future for the past: preservation and promotion of the World Heritage Sites”, Program and Abstracts, Sighisoara, October 10-14, 2018
Sergiu Musteata
In the frame of the project „Preservation by the development of sustainable strategies for a better protection of the World Heritage Sites from Romania”, an International Conference is going to be held in Sighișoara (Mureș County, Romania) during October 10-14, 2018. The main goal of the conference is to discuss and share good practices on the management of World Heritage Sites.
Defining the Role of Local Authorities in Managing and Propagating Cultural Heritage
"Defining the Role of Local Authorities in Managing and Propagating Cultural Heritage" Symposium Proceedings Book - ICLAFI SYMPOSIUM AND ANNUAL MEETING 2019
2020 •
Yasemin Sarıkaya Levent, Wolfgang Göhner, Eugenie Trützschler-Fügnerova, Thomas Adlercreutz, Maria Marta Rae, Mona O'Rourke
Crossing Boundaries: Exploring Biocultural Concepts and Practices in the World Heritage System. 2014.
Kristal Buckley, Peter B Larsen
