ABSTRACT This paper provides the context for a continuing research project on the potential benefits of World Heritage Listing for Indigenous people. The benefits of World Heritage listing are regarded as obvious by advocates of the system, but this view is not shared by many Indigenous communities. This paper provides an assessment of the issues that create conflict between the World Heritage system and Indigenous people. A review of academic and policy literature suggests that the World Heritage System is incompatible with many aspects of Indigenous worldviews, and that conflict arises over issues of sovereignty and translation. These deep-seated issues make it impossible for the World Heritage system to stay abreast of Indigenous concerns, and as a consequence World Heritage continues to be a site of protest and contestation for Indigenous people. This discursive essay offers preliminary insights from research currently underway using Australian case studies to explore these issues.

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谁受益？世界遗产与原住民

摘要 本文为关于世界遗产名录对土著人民的潜在利益的持续研究项目提供了背景。该制度的倡导者认为列入世界遗产名录的好处是显而易见的，但许多原住民社区并不认同这种观点。本文对造成世界遗产系统与土著人民之间冲突的问题进行了评估。对学术和政策文献的回顾表明，世界遗产体系与土著世界观的许多方面不相容，并且在主权和翻译问题上产生了冲突。这些根深蒂固的问题使世界遗产系统无法跟上土著人的关切，因此，世界遗产继续成为原住民抗议和争论的场所。这篇散文从目前正在进行的研究中提供了初步见解，使用澳大利亚案例研究来探索这些问题。