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‘The Good Couscous That Pleases Us!’: The Meanings of Enduring Imperialist Imagery in Postcolonial French Food Advertising, 1970–2000

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines a wave of Orientalism‐inspired food commercials that appeared on television in France between 1975 and 2000. Older commercials for couscous were more banal, emphasizing a given product's superiority or affordability. Around 1975, however, there was a concerted shift in the advertising; new spots contained exoticized ...
Kelly Ricciardi Colvin
wiley   +1 more source

The legacy of Erich Mendelsohn – expression and context in the architecture of Modern Movement.

Ochrona Dziedzictwa Kulturowego
In 2021, the international community of architectural and art historians started the so called “Erich Mendelsohn Initiative”, with the goal of inscribing the architectural legacy of Erich Mendelsohn on the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Maria Jolanta Sołtysik
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The World Heritage Convention and cultural landscapes of the enlightened Spanish Royal Arsenals: The case of the Royal Arsenal of Cartagena (Spain) [PDF]

, 2016
In 1992 the World Heritage Convention became the first international legal instrument to recognise and protect cultural landscapes. The Committee acknowledged that cultural landscapes represent the "combined works of nature and of man".
Maciá Sánchez, Juan Francisco, Peñalver Martínez, María Jesús, Segado Vázquez, Francisco Enrique   +2 more
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Care‐Based Disruption, Creative Practice and Collaborative Empathetic Histories

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This Forum essay examines the value of collaboration when creatively engaging with history as a means of developing empathy, care, and understanding. Creative and collaborative histories provide space to address the harmful misconceptions and preconceptions entangled in capitalist and colonial narratives.
SIERRA MCKINNEY, KATHERINE COOK
wiley   +1 more source

Appropriation in a World Heritage Site: Mozambique Island's visible and invisible complexities [PDF]

, 2010
: Mozambique Island, situated in the North of Mozambique, was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1991, for its unique architecture, a testimony to the amalgamation of different cultural and scientific practices from the 16th century onwards.
Dantas e Sa, Vanessa Ulia
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FEMINISTS VERSUS MONUMENTS? From Protests to Anti‐monuments in Mexico City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the role of heritage spaces and monuments in the Historic Centre of Mexico City during ongoing feminist mobilizations. Feminists have claimed that the Mexican government is more concerned about protecting monuments and urban heritage than acting to prevent gender‐based violence and femicide.
Fernando Gutiérrez
wiley   +1 more source

Commemorating Liu Hui: His significance as a UNESCO World Heritage mathematician

Cultures of Science
In September 2024, a meeting was held in Paris to celebrate the life and works of the Chinese mathematician Liu Hui. This included a UNESCO-sponsored exhibition devoted to Liu Hui and an international symposium organized under the joint auspices of ...
Joseph W Dauben
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THE CONTESTED CITY OF VENICE: Caring for Commodified Common Infrastructures in a Touristified Environment

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this essay I reveal contested common infrastructures in the interplay between vanishing public infrastructures in Venice and lack of care by governmental actors in a city with a shrinking number of inhabitants. I examine care and commodified public infrastructures in heritage cities facing mass tourism and climate change effects by zooming ...
Cornelia Dlabaja
wiley   +1 more source

BEHIND THE FACES OF AESTHETICIZED URBANISM IN TUNXI, CHINA

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban policy in China has become increasingly predicated on securing an approved aesthetic that reflects ideological campaigns and political programmes. In highlighting the role of the aesthetic in Chinese urbanism, this article argues that the party‐state draws on an aesthetic palette that places the contemporary urban landscape in a ...
Yanpeng Jiang, Paul Waley, Asa Roast
wiley   +1 more source

The periphery of UNESCO World Heritage Sites

, 2022
A critical analysis of the concept of buffer zone and the surroundings of UNESCO WH ...
openaire   +1 more source