This book presents studies on the management of the Brazilian world heritage and its international counterparts, relating its preservationist practices to the risks and alerts that run its maintenance in the face of so many challenges in the contemporary world. The book has encouraged scholars from a wide variety of disciplines to contribute their valuable knowledge to research on the management and risks of Brazil's world heritage. It is a bold initiative that brings together contemporary studies on management, alerts and risks of the Brazilian world heritage and some international examples. It stands out not only for its interdisciplinary approach, but above all for compiling a wide range of approaches that analyze various dimensions of world heritage management.

Unique experience in the management of world heritage allocated to Brazilian territory, this book was written by prominent academics and heritage management professionals and includes national and international case studies. It is a comprehensive academic book in Brazilian world heritage management literature and can therefore be used as an authoritative reference source as well as a significant teaching tool.

Brings together contemporary studies on management, alerts and risks of Brazilian world heritage and some international examples Analyzes various dimensions of world heritage management Authoritative reference as well as a significant teaching tool

Autorentext

Rodrigo Christofoletti PhD in History, Politics and Cultural Property from Fundação Getulio Vargas (2010). He is currently a professor of Cultural Heritage in the History course at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), and teaches in the Pos Graduate Program at the same university. He coordinated the Specialization Course in History and Culture in Contemporary Brazil (Ead) at CEAD-UFJF (2017-2019) and the Collections Section of CECOM - UFJF Memory Conservation Center. From 2004 to 2016 he was an educator at the National Monument Ruins Engenho São Jorge dos Erasmos - USP. He is a researcher at LAPA - UFJF Heritage Laboratory and collaborator at CITCEM - Transdisciplinary Research Center "Culture, Space and Memory" at the University of Letters of Porto (ULP). He is leader of the research group Cnpq - Patrimony and International Relations. He has been a member of COMPPAC - Municipal Council for the Preservation of the Historic Heritage of Juiz de Fora, since 2019. He coordinates the Human Sciences area of PISM (Mixed Selective Admission Program) at UFJF. He has experience in the field of political history and cultural goods with an emphasis on Cultural Heritage, acting mainly on the following themes: heritage - cultural goods - heritage education, heritage of humanity, political history of the Brazilian right and Integralism. Marcos Olender graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1985), Master in Social History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1992) and doctorate in Architecture and Urbanism from the Federal University of Bahia (2007). He is currently an associate professor at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. He has experience in the areas of History and Architecture and Urbanism, with an emphasis on Regional History of Brazil and on Historical and Cultural Heritage, acting mainly on the following themes: revitalization, conservation and restoration, instruments for the protection of heritage, politics and management in cultural heritage , history of modern and contemporary architecture, railway memory, history of national and international exhibitions of industries and fine arts, German colonization and immigration architecture (mainly German and Italian).

Inhalt

Part I: Performance of national preservation organization.- Chapter 1. The Brazilian experience of the World Heritage Sites.- Chapter 2. Preservation actors: challenges and risks of managing World heritage cities.- Chapter 3. Current challenges and risks for preservation of the historic center of Salvador.- Chapter 4. World Heritage in Brazil: a reflection and criticism.- Chapter 5. When sensitive memories sites become heritage: the case of the Valongo Wharf, Rio de Janeiro.- Chapter 6. Afro-Brazilian religions and protected urban areas: the cases of Laranjeiras and São Cristóvão, Sergipe.- Chapter 7. The Pampulha Modern Ensemble and its recognition as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.- Chapter 8. Reflections on tourism in Jesuitic-Garani Missions.- Part II: International experiences in preserving the world heritage.- Chapter 9. "Which Egypt will answer"? Some genealogical notes on world heritage.- Chapter 10. The experience of managing the city of Porto as a world heritage site: how toteach and how to learn?.- Chapter 11. World heritage sites in Latin America: conservation and management under a value-based approach.- Chapter 12. Immaterial heritage and the risk of forgetting: the case of the hidden Nagazaki Christians.- Chapter 13. Environmental History and Cultural Landscape in Israel (2003-2020).- Part III: World heritage risks and threats.- Chapter 14. Brazil in the circuit of international cultural relations: return and devolution of ethnographic goods.- Chapter 15. World Heritage in danger: case studies about some of the factors that threaten cultural sites.- Chapter 16. The risk of fire in the twin buildings of the Ouro Preto historic center: world heritage.- Chapter 17. PlunderersofDevotionalHeritage.