The Best We Share: Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention is one of the most widely ratified international treaties, and a place on the World Heritage List is a widely coveted mark of distinction. Building on ethnographic fieldwork at Committee sessions, interviews and documentary study, the book links the change in operations of the World Heritage Committee with structural nation—centeredness, vulnerable procedures for evaluation, monitoring and decision—making, and loose heritage conceptions that have been in...