Thinking Through Heritage Regimes
Осмысление режимов наследия
2017-04-12
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Palestine’s West BankPalestinian AuthorityUNESCOheritage preservationheritage regimes
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1 Introduction In Palestine’s West Bank, the context that I know best and have studied for several years, there are many local civil society organizations dedicated to heritage preservation that essentially take care of a lot of the country’s heritage. They have an ambiguous and rather conflicted relationship with the local UNESCO office, which they see as allied to the Palestinian Authority (PA), the quasi-state that runs the administration of the (still occupied) Palestinian territories. Th...
Key Findings
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Local organizations perceive UNESCO as aligned with the Palestinian Authority, creating tensions within heritage governance.
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Palestinian civil society organizations play a major practical role in preserving the West Bank’s heritage.
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The abstract foregrounds heritage preservation as shaped by overlapping civil-society, quasi-state, international, and occupation-related political structures.
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These heritage organizations have an ambiguous and conflicted relationship with the local UNESCO office.
Research Object
Heritage preservation practices and civil society organizations in Palestine’s West Bank
Research Subject
The conflicted relationship between local heritage organizations, UNESCO, and the Palestinian Authority within heritage regimes
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