THE OUR WORLD HERITAGE CASE STUDIES APPROACH TO AFRICAN HERITAGE, SOCIAL CAPITAL AND PARTICIPATION

Context and background The Our World Heritage Foundation was created in 2020 as a global network to include different stakeholders in the review of the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, in its 50th anniversary.The Convention is in urgent need for a scientific-based participatory policy review, as it does not respond to the current global and region

It is well documented that non-Anglophone scholars face enormous pressures to publish in peer-reviewed English-medium journals both for their own advancement and for institutional prestige.Yet many of them 33 14.50 r24 receive little support and face big challenges.Scholars’ perceptions of these challenges often differ from those of applied l