Notes on Contributors viii Introduction: Globalizing Heritage 1Lynn Meskell 1 UNESCO and New World Orders 22Lynn Meskell and Christoph Brumann 2 Neoliberalism, Heritage Regimes, and Cultural Rights 43Rosemary J. Coombe and Lindsay M. Weiss 3 Civil Societies? Heritage Diplomacy and Neo-Imperialism 70Morag M. Kersel and Christina Luke 4 Bridging Cultural and Natural Heritage 94Denis Byrne and Gro Birgit Ween 5 Communities and Ethics in the Heritage Debates 112Chip Colwell and Charlotte Joy 6 Heritage Management and Conservation: From Colonization to Globalization 131Webber Ndoro and Gamini Wijesuriya 7 Heritage and Violence 150Alfredo González-Ruibal and Martin Hall 8 Urban Heritage and Social Movements 171Chiara De Cesari and Michael Herzfeld 9 Sustainable Development: Heritage, Community, Economics 196Sophia Labadi and Peter G. Gould 10 Transnationalism and Heritage Development 217Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Ian Lilley 11 Heritage and Tourism 240Noel B. Salazar and Yujie Zhu Index 259

Global Heritage: A Reader examines the practice and politics of global heritage preservation and its resulting social implications. Chapters are organized to include a review of relevant, recent literature as well as providing detailed descriptions of innovative projects, studies, trends or problematics that chart the way forward for future studies and heritage directions. Contributors discuss the productive tensions, new challenges and emergent areas that students and professionals need to be aware of in the decades to come. This structure reveals the dynamic nature of the field, and is as geographically inclusive as possible, reflecting the many perspectives and writings that have been produced in various fields, whilst exposing the complex nature of contemporary heritage issues. The Reader explores new directions in heritage scholarship, acknowledging and building upon fundamental established perspectives from archaeology, anthropology, politics, nationalism, ethics and materiality studies.

"Archaeology concerns the present as much as the past. This volume draws together critical international and interdisciplinary considerations of heritage that will be important for years to come."Chris Gosden, University of Oxford. "Global Heritage constitutes an important and timely contribution to heritage studies, anthropology and archaeology. It brings together the best empirical research about heritage in different cultural environments and, through insightful and collaborative texts, sets forth the major theoretical advances in this field." David Berliner, Professor of Anthropology, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains, Université Libre de Bruxelles