Full Description
This book brings together prominent scholars in the fields of international cultural heritage law and heritage studies to scrutinise the various branches of international law and governance dealing with heritage destruction from human rights perspectives, both in times of armed conflict as well as in peace. Importantly, it also examines cases of heritage destruction that may not be intentional, but rather the consequence of large-scale infrastructural development or resource extraction. Chapters deal with high profile cases from Europe, North Africa, The Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean, with a substantial afterword on heritage destruction in Ukraine.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Amy Strecker and Joseph Powderly
1 Is International Law Ready for the Recognition of a General Obligation to Prevent and Avoid Destruction of Cultural Heritage?
Francesco Francioni
2 The Genealogy of 'Universality' within Cultural Heritage Law
Sophie Starrenburg
3 Grave Crimes
Conservation, Conflict and Criminality in Timbuktu
Lynn Meskell
4 Heritage Destruction as a Collective Harm
Challenges and Pitfalls of International Cultural Justice
Andrzej Jakubowski
5 Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage
Sentencing and Reparations
Ana Filipa Vrdoljak
6 Responding to the Destruction of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Situations of Armed Conflict
What International Law to Apply?
Janet Blake
7 Toward a Human Rights-Based Approach as an Element in Post-conflict Cultural Heritage Reconstruction
Patty Gerstenblith
8 Cultural Heritage Losses in Peacetime
Challenges and Lingering Questions
Alessandro Chechi
9 Balancing Economic Interests with Cultural Preservation in Development Contexts
Insight into the Meaning of "Imperatives of Development"
Berenika Drazewska
10 The Right to Participate in Cultural Life and Heritage Destruction
Panacea or Part of the Problem?
Lucas Lixinski
11 The Destruction of Indigenous Peoples' Heritage and International Law
Federico Lenzerini
12 Environmental Principles and Heritage in Australia
A First Nations Focus
Ben Boer
13 Beyond Sovereignty.
Tara, the M3, and Access to Justice for Cultural Landscape Destruction in Ireland
Amy Strecker and Conor Newman
14 Virtual Enclosure, Spatial Injustice and Heritage Destruction in the Caribbean
The Case of Camerhogne Park, Grenada
Amanda Byer
15 The Notion of 'Heritage Title' for Contested Cultural Objects
Evelien Campfens
Afterword:
Heritage Destruction and the War on Ukraine
Joseph Powderly and Amy Strecker
Index
