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100 1  Meskell, Lynn,|eauthor. 
245 12 A future in ruins :|bUNESCO, world heritage, and the dream
       of peace /|cLynn Meskell. 
246 30 UNESCO, world heritage, and the dream of peace 
264  1 New York, NY :|bOxford University Press,|c[2018] 
300    xxiii, 372 pages ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Utopia -- Internationalism -- Technocracy -- Conservation 
       -- Inscription -- Conflict -- Danger -- Dystopia. 
520    " Best known for its World Heritage program committed to 
       "the identification, protection and preservation of 
       cultural and natural heritage around the world considered 
       to be of outstanding value to humanity," the United 
       Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 
       (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 as an intergovernmental 
       agency aimed at fostering peace, humanitarianism, and 
       intercultural understanding. Its mission was inspired by 
       leading European intellectuals such as Henri Bergson, 
       Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Thomas Mann, H. G. Wells, 
       and Aldous and Julian Huxley. Often critiqued for its 
       inherent Eurocentrism, UNESCO and its World Heritage 
       program today remain embedded within modernist principles 
       of "progress" and "development" and subscribe to the 
       liberal principles of diplomacy and mutual tolerance. 
       However, its mission to prevent conflict, destruction, and
       intolerance, while noble and much needed, increasingly 
       falls short, as recent battles over the World Heritage 
       sites of Preah Vihear, Chersonesos, Jerusalem, Palmyra, 
       Aleppo, and Sana'a, among others, have underlined. A 
       Future in Ruins is the story of UNESCO's efforts to save 
       the world's heritage and, in doing so, forge an 
       international community dedicated to peaceful co-existence
       and conservation. It traces how archaeology and 
       internationalism were united in Western initiatives after 
       the political upheavals of the First and Second World 
       Wars. This formed the backdrop for the emergent hopes of a
       better world that were to captivate the "minds of men." 
       UNESCO's leaders were also confronted with challenges and 
       conflicts about their own mission. Would the organization 
       aspire to intellectual pursuits that contributed to the 
       dream of peace or instead be relegated to an advisory and 
       technical agency? An eye-opening and long overdue account 
       of a celebrated yet poorly understood agency, A Future in 
       Ruins calls on us all to understand how and why the past 
       comes to matter in the present, who shapes it, and who 
       wins or loses as a consequence. "--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
520    "A Future in Ruins is an eye-opening look at the United 
       Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 
       (UNESCO). Focusing on early luminaries like H.G. Wells, 
       Aldous, and Julian Huxley, with their dystopian fears for 
       the future, through to the devastation of ancient sites 
       like Cuzco, Abu Simbel, the Bamiyan Valley, and Palmyra, 
       the book traces how, from 1945 to the present, cultural 
       heritage has been a vital part of the elusive hope for a 
       better world"--|cProvided by publisher. 
610 20 Unesco|xHistory. 
610 20 Unesco|vBiography. 
650  0 Cultural property|xProtection|xHistory. 
650  0 Cultural property|xDestruction and pillage|xHistory. 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology.|2bisacsh 
650  7 HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies).
       |2bisacsh 
650  7 NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection.|2bisacsh
650  7 Cultural property|xDestruction and pillage.|2fast
       |0(OCoLC)fst01910937 
650  7 Cultural property|xProtection.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00885019 
655  7 Biography.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423686 
655  7 History.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01411628 
776 08 |iOnline version:|aMeskell, Lynn, author.|tFuture in ruins
       |dNew York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018
       |z9780190648350|w(DLC) 2018030583 
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