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World heritage as authentic fake: Paradisic Reef and Wild Tasmania

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  • Celmara Pocock
  • David Collett
  • Joan Knowles

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This paper explores how the imagined landscapes that act as a catalyst for World Heritage listing, are unable to be reconciled with formal heritage assessments. We explore this tension through two Australian World Heritage landscapes: the Great Barrier Reef and the Tasmanian Wilderness. The history of these listings suggests a teleological process driven by a desire to create authentic utopias. While utopias are imagined spaces, Paradise at the Reef and the Tasmanian Wilderness are realised through hyperreal landscapes (fakes). However, these wholistic landscapes dissolve into a series of inventories of species and numbers in official listing. We suggest the failure to recognise the hyperreal is a form of false consciousness that creates a tension between managing for formally recognised values and managing the unmanageable utopia, and that a broader use of cultural landscapes might be useful in addressing this divide.

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  • Celmara Pocock & David Collett & Joan Knowles, 2022. "World heritage as authentic fake: Paradisic Reef and Wild Tasmania," Landscape Research, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 47(8), pages 1024-1038, November.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:clarxx:v:47:y:2022:i:8:p:1024-1038
    DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2022.2115990
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