01745nas a2200241   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002653001300043653001300056653001300069653001000082653001500092653002100107653002000128100002300148700002200171700001600193700002000209245007700229856015400306520102300460022002001483       2021                            d10aheritage10aalpinism10afalconry10aScale10asharedness10atransnationalism10aUNESCO flamenco1 aBernard Debarbieux1 aChiara Bortolotto1 aHervé Munz1 aCecilia Raziano00aSharing heritage? Politics and territoriality in UNESCO s heritage lists  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85100937810&doi=10.1080%2f21622671.2020.1854112&partnerID=40&md5=0d487f8b3823d29399488b6d5f5a54c93 aUNESCO heritage policies encourage the idea that heritage should be ‘shared’ at the international scale, and invite states and the involved actors to adopt this vision. Yet, ‘sharedness’ can be understood in many different ways. This paper explores several territorial and political issues related to this notion of sharedness. A focus on the uses of a particular UNESCO tool–‘multinational nominations’–sheds a light on transnational cultural practices and examines forms of cooperation within communities and between states in the framework of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH). Specifically, it analyses the work of a French commission for the ICH as well as the nomination processes of three different cultural practices to the ICH lists: flamenco, falconry and alpinism. It is argued that ‘shared heritage’ is interpreted in a variety of ways, leading to contrastive appropriations and competing territorial scenarios among the various protagonists.  a21622671 (ISSN)