La otra lista del Patrimonio Mundial. El cambio cultural

Abstract

It is an opinion article on theoretical aspects of the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, specifically on concepts and terms. The article starts from a well-known concept such as the World Heritage List, carried out by the UNESCO in order to protect those places that have exceptional universal value to reflect on the possibility of generating another list, the one that would show the places on the planet, where there is a cultural void or a cultural change, not only because of the absence or lack of manifestations of universal value, but this purpose clearly manifesting the loss of human and cultural values.
Concepts such as the places of the memory of Pierre Nora, or the places not remembered of Pierre Vidal-Naquet are reviewed. The ideas of Maurice Halbwachs and Marc Augé on the places of collective memory and non-places are presented. And notable philosophers and thinkers of the twentieth and twenty-first century such as the spanish José Ortega y Gasset, the french Tzetan Tdorov are present those ideas that help us understand, in the context of globalization, the places where culture and cultural identity are destroyed. The article starts from the awareness that the human and cultural heritage is increasingly threatened by different causes that can lead to its extermination and total disappearance, in some parts of the planet. It is also recognized that protection at the national and international levels is incomplete and that together with the places that arouse worldwide interest in its cultural heritage, we must place on the map of the world those that suffer the cultural change.