Reconciling Nature and Culture in a Global Context? - Rainforest ...

Reconciling Nature and Culture in a Global Context?Lessons from the World Heritage ListCONTENTSAcknowledgements.................................................................................................................iColour Plates .........................................................................................................................ivMaps..................................................................................................................................... vFigures ................................................................................................................................ ixChapter One – Introduction...................................................................................................1Chapter Two – The Wet Tropics World Heritage Area: A Confusion of Categories? ......5Natural Sciences and ‘Dead’ Nature ....................................................................................6Whose Nature, Whose Culture?.........................................................................................10The Production of Natural Subjects....................................................................................10The Hegemony of Nature ...................................................................................................14The Learning Curve of the World Heritage List ..................................................................16Chapter Three – World Heritage as a Global Public Good? A Case Studyfrom the Island of Komodo..................................................................................................17‘Here There be Dragons’ – Discovering Dragons and the Creationof Media-genic Megafauna.................................................................................................19Culture Wars, Part I............................................................................................................21The ‘Discovery’ of the Ata Modo ........................................................................................23‘New Nature’.......................................................................................................................27Culture Wars, Part II...........................................................................................................32The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: A Postscript from Komodo National Park, 2005............38Chapter Four – The Convention and World History..........................................................47The Military Fortress of Suomenlinna: A Case of Post-colonial Remembering?................48The Historic Centre of Macau.............................................................................................51Historic Centres on the World Heritage List: Restoring and Rebuilding What?..................56Australian Heritage and the Colonial Experience...............................................................59Chapter Five – ‘Natural’ Cultural Landscapes: The Case of Val d’Orcia, Tuscany........61The European Tradition of Landscape ...............................................................................62World Heritage Cultural Landscapes..................................................................................64Val d’Orcia Reconsidered...................................................................................................66Chapter Six – Conclusion: Reconciling Nature and Culture?..........................................71“No Difference, They Both Together, Nature and Culture”.................................................72Caught in Culture: More Lessons from the World Heritage List .........................................74… and the Final Lesson from the World Heritage List........................................................76References ............................................................................................................................79iii