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This collection of papers discuss World Trade Law and focus on the contested nature of World Heritage at sites as diverse as The Netherlands, Ellis Island (USA), post-colonial Mesoamerica, Cambodia, Fiji, Kyrgyzstan, and Vietnam. In addition, eight research notes explore heritage interpretation in the USA, Lebanon, Peru, Indonesia, Singapore, Tasmania and India.
This book is a solid addition to the scholarly literature on heritage tourism and, in particular, the geopolitics of the management of UNESCO World Heritage Sites. The editors have done an excellent job in providing both a geographically wide-ranging set of case studies and critical scholarly research. This is a fine volume for practitioners and scholars in heritage tourism management and research. Those with serious interests in World Heritage Sites, the UNESCO selection process, heritage management and heritage tourism ought to consider this volume.
David Harrison is a London educated Sociologist/Anthropologist who has taught at the University of Sussex, London Metropolitan University, and The University of the South Pacific in Fiji, from which he retired in 2014. The USP link continues, and he is also associated with St. Mary's University College in London and the University of Surrey. He has written extensively on tourism and development and has researched its impacts in Eastern Europe, Southern Africa, the Caribbean, the South Pacific and South-East Asia.
Michael Hitchcock is Director of the International Institute of Culture Tourism and Development, London Metropolitan University.
Foreword - Francesco Bandarin
Introduction: Contested Narratives in the Domain of World Heritage - David Harrison
World Heritage as NIMBY? The Case of the Dutch Part of the Wadden Sea - Bart J.M. van der Aa, Peter D. Groote and Paulus P.P. Huigen
Huddled Masses Yearning to Buy Postcards: The Politics of Producing Heritage at the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island National Monument - Joanne Maddern
Mundo Maya: From Cancún to City of Culture. World Heritage in Post-colonial Mesoamerica - Graeme Evans
Landscape, Memory and Heritage: New Year Celebrations at Angkor, Cambodia - Tim Winter
Levuka, Fiji: Contested Heritage? - David Harrison
Post-colonial Politics and Resurgent Heritage: The Development of Kyrgyzstan’s Heritage Tourism Product - Karen Thompson
World Trade Law, Culture, Heritage and Tourism: Towards a Holistic Conceptual Approach? - James Tunney
An Observation Station for Culture and Tourism in Vietnam: A Forum for World Heritage and Public
Participation - Tomke Lask and Stefan Herold
The Meanings and Effectiveness of World Heritage Designation in the USA - Kevin Williams
Managing the Cedars of Lebanon: Botanical Gardens or Living Forests? - Myra Shackley
Including the Outsiders: The Contribution of Guides to Integrated Heritage Tourism Management in Cusco, Southern Peru - Gemma McGrath
Locating Global Legacies in Tana Toraja, Indonesia - Kathleen M. Adams
Global Heritage and Local Problems: Some Examples from Indonesia - Geoffrey Wall and Heather Black
Creating and Recreating Heritage in Singapore - Kim Jane Saunders
Wunderkammer 02: An Exhibition of Art, Craft and Souvenirs from World Heritage Sites in Tasmania and Far North Queensland - David L. Hume
Elephanta Island: World Heritage, Cultural Conservation and Options for Nature Conservation - Graham Walters
Afterword - Michael Hitchcock