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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Heritage Culture and Rights: Challenging Legal Discourses by Edited by Professor Andrea Durbach Edited by Lucas Lixinski
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.