Mcintyre-Tamwoy, Susan (2017) A new approach to management of tangible and intangible heritage for the Asia Pacific: can the 2003 and 1972 UNESCO conventions for heritage work together to achieve better heritage outcomes in the Asia Pacific Region? Modern Conservation, 5. pp. 63-74.

	PDF (Published Version - Serbian) - Published Version Restricted to Repository staff only
	PDF (Submitted Version - English translation) - Submitted Version Restricted to Repository staff only

Abstract

Although the 1972, Convention Concerning the Protection of the World's Cultural, Natural Heritage (World Heritage Convention) and the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention) both operate to protect and safeguard the world's heritage, they do so largely in isolation from each other. They have developed separate processes, and implementation committees. Practitioners also tend to specialize almost exclusively in working under one or other of the conventions.

In many parts of the world funding for heritage is highly competitive and UNESCO also has to prioritize its financial support for heritage in a tight fiscal climate. It is therefore timely to rethink the ways in which we work and to look for synergistic collaborations. This paper considers the benefits that might be gained through a closer relationship between the two conventions and the strategic use of both conventions in combination by State Parties. It does this in the context of the Asia Pacific Region- a region within which 20% of the State Parties, including two significant western economies, have not ratified the Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention. Engagement with this Convention is even more questionable when one considers that only just over 40% of the member states in that region have registered ICH under the Convention.

Rethinking the way that we work is not new to the cultural heritage sector, nor is the environment where we are all asked to do more with fewer resources (Purkait et al., 2013). ICOMOS and IUCN, two advisory bodies under the World Heritage Convention, have initiate several projects recently which aim to better integrate and streamline their assessment processes and this paper looks to their Connecting Practice Project and the Nature Culture Journey as two such examples. The author considers two case studies from the region as a way of exploring how the two conventions could work together. One of these is in relation to an existing World Heritage Site listed for its natural values only despite having substantial cultural values in relation to the Indigenous communities that live adjacent to the WHA. The other is a site on Papua New Guinea’s Tentative List which is located in a remote part of the country and where local communities would be looking to heritage to assist in developing alternative local economies. In both cases there would be benefits in integrating efforts under both Conventions.

Item ID:	52385
Item Type:	Article (Scholarly Work)
ISSN:	2334-9239
Keywords:	world heritage, intangible cultural heritage, Asia Pacific region
Additional Information:	The paper was published in Serbian with only the abstract in English. An English translation of the entire article is attached to the record.
Date Deposited:	23 Feb 2018 02:14
FoR Codes:	43 HISTORY, HERITAGE AND ARCHAEOLOGY > 4301 Archaeology > 430199 Archaeology not elsewhere classified @ 100%
SEO Codes:	95 CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING > 9503 Heritage > 950304 Conserving Intangible Cultural Heritage @ 100%
Downloads:	Total: 9
	More Statistics