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Representations of the nation and cultural diversity in discourses on World Heritage
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In this article, the main values for which 106 sites have been nominated for inclusion on the World Heritage List are presented, and how these values have been used for the representation of the nation, the past and cultural diversity and the construction of national collective identities.Abstract:
This article presents the main values for which 106 sites have been nominated for inclusion on the World Heritage List. The article then analyses how these values have been used for the representation of the nation, the past and cultural diversity and the construction of national collective identities. The exclusions of specific themes and groups of the population as well as their histories and values from these representations are highlighted. Finally, international efforts that aim to relocate these themes and subjects from a marginal to a more central position within official discourses on World Heritage are detailed.read more
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Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism
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The Second Sex
TL;DR: The Second Sex as discussed by the authors is a seminal work in the modern feminist upsurge that has transformed perceptions of the social relationship of man and women in our time, and it is at once a work of anthropology and sociology, of biology and psychoanalysis from the pen of a writer and novelist of penetrating imaginative power.
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Introduction: Inventing Traditions
TL;DR: The attempt to understand "life" through the written lives of three men as discussed by the authors is a version of the attempt to "understand life" through three men: three writers whose imaginations struggled to express their own and others' particularities.
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Qualitative Data Analysis: Technologies and Representations:
TL;DR: In this paper, the analysis of qualitative data and the ethnographic representation of social reality are discussed and a contrast is drawn between the two aspects of data analysis and representation of reality.