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World heritage: exploring the tension between the universal and the national

Rakic, T and Chambers, Donna (2007) World heritage: exploring the tension between the universal and the national. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 2 (3). pp. 145-155. ISSN 1743-873X

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Abstract

The complex issues of conservation, politics, tourism management and ownership have emerged as critical issues within the World Heritage debate and specifically within heritage tourism research. Within this context, this paper focuses on issues of ownership and belonging and argues that there exists a link between the conceptual inconsistencies inherent in the World Heritage idea and the tensions between the national and the ‘universal’ evident at a number of World Heritage Sites. That is, heritage sites that are deemed to be of ‘outstanding universal value’ and are bestowed with the World Heritage accolade are consequently no longer expected to be perceived as symbols of particular national identities, but as heritage belonging to all humankind. This, of course, provokes a series of debates over the issues of ownership and belonging of such heritage, namely between the national and the ‘universal’ suggesting that it is possible to perceive World Heritage as synonymous with contested heritage. The paper explores these issues of ownership and focuses on the Acropolis, symbol of the World Heritage idea, as a case study utilising an exploratory semiotic analysis of the promotional material released by the Greek National Tourism Organisation over the last five years.

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Depositing User: Donna Chambers

Identifiers

Item ID: 4658
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.2167/jht056.0
ISSN: 1743-873X
URI: http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/4658
Official URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2167/jht056....

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ORCID for Donna Chambers: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9502-9919

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Date Deposited: 17 Feb 2014 09:49
Last Modified: 02 Jul 2019 09:09

Contributors

Author: Donna Chambers ORCID iD
Author: T Rakic

University Divisions

Faculty of Business, Law and Tourism > Sunderland Law School

Subjects

Tourism > Tourism

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