Diversity and Genders

This theme highlights exclusionary processes at play at World Heritage sites, as well as to highlight new and innovative approaches to address them. This theme is essential at the times of the Black Lives Matter Movement, hyper-diversified societies and the increased injustices created along (intersections of) race, gender and class by Covid-19. The objectives of this theme are:

  • To reveal how structural inequalities and unequal power relations, particularly between the North and the Global South, reflected in nations, structure the World Heritage system and marginalised communities, groups and individuals.

  • To explore mechanisms of domination, discrimination, exclusion and erasure of women and minorities through heritage policies and practices (folklorization, forgetting of specific narratives).

  • To highlight how marginalised communities, groups and individuals, as well as multiple and shifting forms of identities can be better represented in narratives on World Heritage.

  • To (re)consider processes of heritage valuation and benefits that have led to the marginalisation of forms of heritages and minority stakeholders.

  • To highlight key and contemporary issues affecting minority groups, communities and individuals (including women) at World Heritage sites, particularly relating to the Sustainable Development Goals, and innovative approaches to address them.

Special items

Recordings of the events


Organisers:

Sophia Labadi
Coordinator

Tokie Laotan-Brown
Co-Convener

Loes Veldpaus
Co-Convener

Marco Acri

Olufemi Adetunji

Paloma Berggren

Emilienne Fernande Bodo

Annalisa Bolin

Merve Demiröz

Francesca Giliberto

Karl Goodwin

Maya Ishizawa

Ammar Kessab

John Shorter

Keya Khandaker

Toni Smith

 

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