Publicomos

Réf.

42691

Type

thesis

Titre

As Ferrovias como Patrimônio Cultural Mundial: Os Estados-partes, a UNESCO e o Valor Universal Excepcional

Titre traduit en anglais

The Railways as a World Cultural Heritage: States Parties, UNESCO and the Outstanding Universal Value

Langues

Portuguese

Auteurs

Lins, Ana Paula Mota de Bitencourt da Costa

Date

14/09/2015

Pages

228

Mots-clés

philosophy of conservation / World Heritage / outstanding universal value / railways / industrial heritage / theory of conservation / doctrine / criteria / advisory bodies / valuations

Pays mentionnés

Austria / India / Italy / Switzerland

Monuments et sites

Darjeeling Railway, India / Semmering Railway, Austria / Rhaetian Railway, Switzerland and Italy

N° Patrimoine mondial

785 / 1276 / 944

Résumé en anglais

The dissertation "The Railways as a World Cultural Heritage: States Parties, UNESCO and the Outstanding Universal Value" has aims at investigating the attribution of Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) to railways included on the World Heritage List, through the identification of criteria and requirements for recognition. The research focuses on 03 stages. The first stage is the theoretical framework of the research, aiming at approaching the theoretical problem: an understanding of the railway heritage and of outstanding universal value. Accordingly, there follow an overview of the railways, discussions on the preservation of the railway heritage in the global context, and in the UNESCO context. The second theoretical approach corresponds to the understanding of the value to the Theory of Values (Axiology of Values) and Conservation Theory. The second approach focused on the investigation of the empirical problem: the attribution of outstanding universal value. In this way, three (03) case studies to achieve the central objective of this thesis are highlighted: The Semmering Railway, Austria; the Railway Darjeeling, India; and the Rhaetian Railway, which crosses Switzerland and Italy. The method used for the analysis of that railway is Bardin`s Content Analysis, applied to the documentation corpus, consisting of the Advisory Body Assessment Document of each analyzed railroad. The dissertation is based on the premise that from the railways attributes of identification it is possible to interpret the values that make up the outstanding universal value of the world's railways. Thus, the empirical axis of research, analysis of each of the selected railways performed, leadin to infer that the outstanding universal value of the global railway is composed of a plurality of values dynamic and interdependent and that there is a hierarchy in its relations, point out an order, where the most outstanding values are what should be preserved, as justified by the recognition of the railways as a cultural world.

Document joint

Tese_Ana Paula Lins.pdf

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Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)