The Polish Origins of World Heritage: Poland's Cultural Bureaucracy and the Remaking of UNESCO

• In Event: Cultural Bureaucracy during the Cold War: Institutions, Networks, and Practices

Abstract

Some of the leading architects of UNESCO's World Heritage Convention (1972) were Polish preservations and city planners - who also worked closely with Poland's Ministry of Culture. This paper considers how they navigated between two cultural bureaucracies and in the process shaped both discourses and practices of heritage.

Author

• Kyrill Kunakhovich, U of Virginia