Mapping the role of Jordan's governmental institutions and NGOs in the inscription of As-Salt City on the UNESCO World Heritage

El Faouri, Bayan F. and Sibley, Magda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1629-2995 2024. Mapping the role of Jordan's governmental institutions and NGOs in the inscription of As-Salt City on the UNESCO World Heritage. Presented at: 6th International Conference on Conservation of Architectural Heritage (CAH), 25-27 May 2022. Conservation of Architectural Heritage (CAH). Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation Cham: Springer, pp. 431-448. 10.1007/978-3-031-33222-7_36

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Abstract

As-Salt City in Jordan has undergone four nomination attempts in the last 30 years before its successful inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List (WHL) in July 2021. The first attempt was initiated in the 1990s by a local NGO which was deferred. This was followed by an international NGO in 1994, which did not reach further than putting the city on the tentative list. In 2016, local authorities took the lead in submitting another nomination which was also deferred. It wasn’t until 2020 that the last nomination was successful with the city’s inscription on the WHL. This paper provides new insights into how the concept of the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) for As-Salt City has evolved during the subsequent nomination attempts and negotiated between different actors and with UNESCO. The roles of different actors in the nomination attempts are chronologically mapped to understand the conflicting priorities of different stakeholders and how these triggered various urban regeneration processes in the city. The results of semi-structured interviews conducted in 2020 with key stakeholders (including the nomination files’ coordinators) are also presented to provide an understanding of the different actors’ positions regarding the OUV and how this latter shifted over time.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Architecture
Publisher:	Springer
ISBN:	978-3-031-33221-0
Last Modified:	26 Apr 2024 10:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/167626

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