What does it mean to be “safe,” and what does it mean to be “endangered”? Who defines these terms, why, and what does this act of definition allow them to do? In December 2016, a conference entitled Safeguarding Endangered Cultural Heritage took place in Abu Dhabi, organized jointly by the governments of the United Arab Emirates and France, and held under the patronage of UNESCO. The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Shaykh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, was in attendance, as was French President François Hollande and the Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova; many other dignitaries joined them. The diplomatic spectacle was a sight to behold. The assembled, distinctly elite, group seemed to have given itself sole authority to speak for and about cultural heritage around the world.

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对象规则：关于避风港的去人口化

什么是“安全”，什么是“濒危”？谁定义了这些术语，为什么以及这种定义行为允许他们做什么？2016 年 12 月，由阿拉伯联合酋长国和法国政府联合主办，联合国教科文组织赞助的题为“保护濒危文化遗产”的会议在阿布扎比举行。阿布扎比王储谢赫·穆罕默德·本·扎耶德·阿勒纳哈扬、法国总统弗朗索瓦·奥朗德和联合国教科文组织总干事伊琳娜·博科娃出席了会议；许多其他政要也加入了他们的行列。外交奇观是一个值得一看的景象。这个聚集在一起的、明显是精英的群体似乎已经赋予自己唯一的权力来为世界各地的文化遗产发声。