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World Heritage Patinas

Actions, Alerts and Risks

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Editors:
  1. Rodrigo Christofoletti

    1. ICH, Departamento de História, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

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  2. Marcos Olender

    1. ICH, Departamento de História, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

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  • 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

Part of the book series: The Latin American Studies Book Series (LASBS)

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Table of contents (30 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Action of National Preservation Organizations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. The Brazilian Experience of UNESCO World Heritage Sites

      • Jurema Machado
      Pages 3-14

    3. Preservation Actors: Challenges and Risks of Managing World Heritage Cities

      • Marcelo Brito
      Pages 15-35

    4. Current Challenges and Risks for Preservation of the Historic Center of Salvador

      • Nivaldo Vieira de Andrade Junior
      Pages 37-64

    5. World Heritage in Brazil: Reflection and Criticism

      • Simone Scifoni
      Pages 65-77

    6. When Sensitive Memories Sites Become Heritage: The Case of the Valongo Wharf in Rio de Janeiro

      • Monica Lima e Souza
      Pages 79-95

    7. Afro-Brazilian Religions and Protected Urban Areas: The Cases of Laranjeiras and São Cristóvão, Sergipe

      • Raul Amaro de Oliveira Lanari, Hugo Mateus Gonçalves Rocha
      Pages 97-116

    8. The Pampulha Modern Ensemble: Reflections on the Complexities and Contradictions for the Management of a World Heritage Cultural Landscape

      • Luciana Rocha Féres, Leonardo Barci Castriota
      Pages 117-138

    9. Reflections on Tourism in Jesuitic-Guarani Missions

      • Ana Lúcia Goelzer Meira, Luisa Durán
      Pages 139-151

  3. International Preservation Experiences of World Heritage

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153
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    2. “Which Egypt Will Answer”?

      • Marcos Olender
      Pages 155-178

    3. The Experience of Managing the City of Porto as a World Heritage Site: How to Teach and How to Learn?

      • Maria Leonor Botelho, Lúcia Maria Cardoso Rosas
      Pages 179-196

    4. World Heritage Sites in Latin America: Conservation and Management Under a Value-Based Approach

      • Mario Ferrada Aguilar
      Pages 197-222

    5. Immaterial Heritage and The Risk of “Forgetting”: A Case Study of the Hidden Christian Sites in Nagasaki, Japan

      • Joanes da Silva Rocha
      Pages 223-239

    6. Environmental History and Cultural Landscape in Israel (2003–2020)

      • Paulo Henrique Martinez
      Pages 241-255

  4. World Heritage Risks and Threats

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 257-257
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    2. Brazil on the Circuit of International Cultural Relations: Return and Devolution of Ethnographic Goods

      • Rodrigo Christofoletti, Vitória dos Santos Acerbi
      Pages 259-279

    3. World Heritage in Danger: Case Studies About Some of the Factors that Threaten Cultural Sites

      • Inês de Carvalho Costa
      Pages 281-304

    4. The Risk of Fire in Twin Buildings of the Ouro Preto Historic Center: World Heritage

      • Antônio Maria Claret de Gouveia, Giovana Martins Brito, Ana Elisa de Oliveira
      Pages 305-321
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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • ICH, Departamento de História, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Juiz de Fora, Brazil

    Rodrigo Christofoletti, Marcos Olender

About the editors

​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. Hecoordinates 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).





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