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Heritage, Culture and Rights - Challenging legal discourses

Author
Durbach A., Lixinski L.
Date
2017
Source
IUCN (ID: MON-093336)
Publisher | Place of publication
Hart Publishing
ISBN
9781849468084
Pages
312 p.
Document type
Monography/book
Language
English
Field of application
International
Subject
Environment gen.
Keyword
Human rights Cultural heritage
Abstract

Cultural heritage law and its response to human rights principles and practice has gained renewed prominence on the international agenda. The recent conflicts in Syria and Mali, China's use of shipwreck sites and underwater cultural heritage to make territorial claims, and the cultural identities of nations post-conflict highlight this field as an emerging global focus. In addition, it has become a forum for the configuration and contestation of cultural heritage, rights and the broader politics of international law. The manifestation of tensions between heritage and human rights are explored in this volume, in particular in relation to heritage and rights in collaboration and in conflict, and heritage as a tool for rights advocacy. This volume also explores these issues from a distinctively legal standpoint, considering the extent to which the legal tools of international human rights law facilitate or hinder heritage protection. Covering a range of issues across Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and Australia, this volume will be of interest to people working in human rights, heritage studies, cultural heritage management and identity politics around the world.

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www.bloomsbury.com

References - Literature

Chapter

Culture, Rights and the Post-2015 Development Agenda

Author: Boer B.

In: Heritage, Culture and Rights - Challenging legal discourses

Publisher: Hart Publishing | 2017

Literature | International

Keyword: Human rights, Cultural heritage

Source: IUCN (ID: ANA-093337)