Uno sguardo geografico sulla world heritage list: la territorializzazione della candidatura

The inclusion of a property in the World Heritage List is related to various expectations (of various subjects: heritage managers, local communities, visitors, etc.) about its effects. Many studies about World Heritage focus on these effects on local economies and societies, notably for what concerns the international fame of the property, the growth of tourism, a better protection of heritage, the empowerment of local communities and so on. Most of them, however, admit the difficulty to isolate the “Unesco effect” from the whole of territorial dynamics. This paper aims at providing a different approach to the study of what happens at the local scale, when the global rules and discourse of World Heritage are implemented. From this perspective, this process can be read as one of ri-territorialization of the local, which begins with the formation a specific coalition of territorial actors and continues with the production of new representations of heritage, new rules, new policies and new territorialities. The paper presents the first results of the tentative to study with this approach the nomination of the vineyard landscapes of Piedmont to the World Heritage List. 1. Introduzione La Lista del Patrimonio dell’Umanita dell’Unesco (World Heritage List o WHL) e oggetto di numerosi studi e riflessioni, provenienti sia dal mondo accademico e della ricerca (perlopiu negli ambiti conosciuti a livello internazionale come heritage studies e tourism studies, oppure nel campo dell’economia della cultura), sia dalle istituzioni e dai soggetti attivi nel governo del territorio e nella protezione e gestione del patrimonio culturale o naturale. Questo contributo contiene i primi risultati di una ricerca di dottorato finalizzata ad approfondire il processo di candidatura dei paesaggi

Ҳали таржима қилинмаган