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UNESCO remains key to the global management of heritage. For decades, UNESCO conceived of heritage as a territorialised asset, even though many of its declared World Heritages are to be found on islands and in coastal communities. As the discussion presented here shows however, the organisation is increasingly considering the marine and maritime cultural heritages of the world and their salience to cultural diversity. In the following, I propose that more attention be given to African coastal cultural heritages and the coastal cultural heritages of Least Developed Countries (LDCs), as such attention can better reveal possibilities for meaningful development and play a critical role in decolonisation and the achievement of social justice.
The research presented in this chapter is supported by an NRF UID Grant number 129662.
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Boswell, R. (2022). World and Marine Heritages. In: Boswell, R., O’Kane, D., Hills, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Blue Heritage. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-99347-4_5
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