“During the painfully long and exhausting eighteen-hour flight back to Auckland, I had plenty of time to reflect on the 42nd session of the World Heritage Committee in Manama, Bahrain.”
Posts tagged #World Heritage Committee
Merekara Kara: A Loss of R.E.S.P.E.C.T
“The Heritage List is not a beauty contest.” - Australian delegation. Haha yeah right!
Katie Cammell: The Politicization of Heritage
If the decisions to inscribe are not impartial, and are in fact influenced by political pressures, then whose heritage are we prioritising and celebrating? And, perhaps more importantly, who is being excluded?
Katie Cammell: A Day in the Life of the WHC
A behind-the-scenes look at a full day of the World Heritage Committee session.
Katie Cammell: The Garden of Eden?
“So where are you going again?”
Samantha Keen: The Journey So Far...
Venice, illness, Krakow and Auschwitz.
Lanu Faletau: The 41st Session of the World Heritage Committee - My thoughts...
One thing I know to be true, is that the cultural makeup of a society is more often than not, intricately connected between people, land and heritage.