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Cultural objects and reparative justice : a legal and historical analysis /

This work provides a comprehensive legal and historical analysis of the issues surrounding the question of where tangible, movable cultural objects that were removed without consent should be located. The book traces the historical foundations of the current legal framework on both international and...

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Main Author: Gerstenblith, Patty (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Cultural heritage law and policy.
Subjects:
Cultural property > Repatriation.
Reparations for historical injustices.
Patrimoine culturel > Restitution.
Réparations des crimes de l'histoire.
Social History.
HISTORY.
International.
LAW.
International Relations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE.
Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.
Cultural property > Repatriation
Reparations for historical injustices
Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law.
Law.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Preface
  • Series Editors' Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Table of Cases
  • Table of Instruments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.2 Defining Culture and Cultural Objects
  • 1.3 Defining Cultural Property and Cultural Heritage
  • 1.4 Interests and Authority
  • 1.4.1 International Community
  • 1.4.2 States
  • 1.4.3 Local and Descendant Communities
  • 1.4.4 Contextualism
  • 1.5 Structure
  • 2. Origins of the Debate Concerning Location of Cultural Objects
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Armed Conflict and Cultural Objects: Antiquity to the Beginning of the Modern Era
  • 2.2.1 Antiquity to the French Revolution
  • 2.2.2 The French Revolution
  • 2.2.3 The Napoleonic Wars and Their Aftermath
  • 2.3 The Encyclopedic or Universal Museum
  • 2.4 Development of the Study of the Past as a Science
  • 2.4.1 Early Exploration of the Past
  • 2.4.2 Towards the Science of Archaeology
  • 2.4.3 Archaeology and Imperialism
  • 2.5 Conclusion
  • 3. Historical Appropriations/Historical Claims
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 The Parthenon Sculptures
  • 3.2.1 The Sculptures in Antiquity
  • 3.2.2 The Sculptures in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
  • 3.2.3 The Parthenon Sculptures as Contemporary Symbol
  • 3.2.4 The Rescue Narrative and Contextualism
  • 3.3 The Yuanmingyuan Palace Complex
  • 3.4 The Benin Cultural Objects
  • 3.5 Conclusion
  • 4. Appropriation of Archaeological Heritage: Market Demand and Legal Responses
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 The Role of the International Market in Antiquities
  • 4.2.1 Loss of Cultural and Intellectual Capital
  • 4.2.2 Loss to Knowledge
  • 4.2.3 Physical Integrity
  • 4.2.4 Forgeries
  • 4.2.5 Funding of Armed Conflict and Other Criminal Activity
  • 4.3 Legal Responses.
  • 4.3.1 Development of Laws Protecting Archaeological Heritage
  • 4.3.2 State Ownership of Antiquities
  • 4.3.3 Cultural Property Agreements and International Conventions
  • 4.3.4 Customs Laws
  • 4.4 Conclusion
  • 5. The Right to Objects of Cultural Heritage
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 The Law of Armed Conflict: The Hague Conventions
  • 5.2.1 The 1899 and 1907 Hague Conventions and the Two World Wars
  • 5.2.2 The Framework of the 1954 Hague Convention
  • 5.3 A Human Rights Approach to the Disposition of Cultural Objects
  • 5.3.1 The Role of Cultural Genocide
  • 5.3.2 Human Rights and Cultural Objects
  • 5.3.3 Human Remains and Burial Goods
  • 5.4 International and Regional Conventions and the Regulation of Trade in Cultural Objects
  • 5.4.1 The 1970 UNESCO and 1995 UNIDROIT Conventions
  • 5.4.2 European Union Import and Export Restrictions
  • 5.4.3 UN Security Council Resolutions
  • 5.5 Conclusion
  • 6. Beyond the Law: Ethical Considerations
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 General Codes of Conduct
  • 6.3 Codes of Conduct with Respect to Cultural Works Looted during the Holocaust
  • 6.4 The 1970 UNESCO Convention as an Ethical Standard
  • 6.4.1 Professional and Scholarly Associations
  • 6.4.2 Museum Policies
  • 6.4.3 Codes of Conduct among Market Participants
  • 6.5 Human Remains and Indigenous Sacred and Cultural Objects
  • 6.6 Conclusion
  • 7. Historical Appropriations: Of Time and Reparative Justice
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 The Problem of Time
  • 7.2.1 Bars Based on Passage of Time
  • 7.2.2 Bars Based on Non-Retroactivity
  • 7.2.3 The Double Standard of Nineteenth-Century International Law
  • 7.3 The Cultural Heritage Debate in Contemporary Context
  • 7.3.1 The Rescue Narrative Revisited
  • 7.3.2 The Universal or Encyclopedic Museum
  • 7.3.3 National Identity
  • 7.4 The Right to Reparations
  • 7.4.1 Justice through Reparations.
  • 7.4.2 Principles of Reparative Justice Applied: Reparations Design
  • 7.4.3 Means of Reparation
  • 7.5 Conclusion
  • Index.