Review
Lynn Meskell, A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace.
| Title: | Lynn Meskell, A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace. |
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| Authors: | Griswold, Sarah |
| Source: | Journal of Contemporary History; Apr2021, Vol. 56 Issue 2, p445-447, 3p |
| Abstract: | I A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace i lays out a history of the modern world heritage movement in eight chapters, moving chronologically from the 1940s to the present. It is perhaps this latter element of World Heritage at UNESCO that comes through as most dispiriting in Meskell's account (though also perhaps hardly surprising, given similar revelations in other historical treatments of world organizations such as the WHO and ILO). Meskell, Lynn, A Future in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2018; 400 pp.; £19.99 hbk; ISBN 9780190648343 On the margins of Lynn Meskell's history of UNESCO's world heritage efforts is an intriguing thought experiment: how might UNESCO's world heritage efforts have fared differently had archaeology (Meskell's own discipline) remained at the core of the organization?. [Extracted from the article] |
| Subject Terms: | PEACE, ANTIQUITIES, BUREAUCRACY, WORLD Heritage Sites, MODERN history, PEACEBUILDING |
| Company/Entity: | UNESCO |
| Reviews & Products: | FUTURE in Ruins: UNESCO, World Heritage & the Dream of Peace, A (Book) |
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| ISSN: | 00220094 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0022009420980678d |
| Database: | Complementary Index |