A Future in Ruins: Unesco, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace

ISBN-13: 9780190648343 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 400 str.

Lynn Meskell

Recenzje

This timely book's insight and subtlety will set the diplomatic world by its ears. Meskell shows how UNESCO's pious pose of cultural universalism masks nationalistic — and Eurocentric — pursuits. Her argument steadily moves us toward the unexpected revelation that UNESCO's interventions, understood by the world's disenfranchised as redolent of Western arrogance, increase the threat to the cultural treasures they are supposed to protect.

O autorze

Lynn Meskell is Professor, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University and author of Global Heritage: A Reader (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015), The Nature of Heritage: The New South Africa (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), Cosmopolitan Archaeologies (Duke University Press, 2009), and Private Life in New Kingdom Egypt (PUP, 2002).