Cultural heritage, cultural rights, cultural diversity
Subtitle: new developments in international law
By: edited by Silvia Borelli and Federico Lenzerini
Series: Studies in Intercultural Human Rights -- 4
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers; BRILL
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9789004228399; 9789004228382
Subjects: Cultural pluralism; Cultural property; Protection (International law); Protection; Law and legislation; Culture and law
Description: Cultural heritage, cultural rights, cultural diversity: new developments in international law explores the recent evolution of cultural heritage law which has resulted in the emergence of a new international conscience, rooted in the awareness that cultural heritage represents a holistic notion strongly connected with the identity of peoples as well with individual and collective human rights. Leading international scholars examine the new challenges determined by that evolution, reaching beyond only tangible artistic and monumental expression and paying particular attention to the linkages be.
Table of contents: title: The evolving international legal framework for the protection of cultural heritage in international law / Francesco francioni; title: Cultural diversity as a human right? general comment no. 21 of the Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural rights / Laura Pineschi; title: Of veils, crosses, and turbans : the European Court of Human Rights and religious practices as manifestations of cultural diversity /  Silvia Borelli; title: Food as a cultural choice : a human right to be protected? / Maria Clara Mafffei; title: Human rights and illicit trade in cultural objects / Ana Filipa Vrdoljak; title: "Remedying historical injustice" : ethical and historical considerations in returning cultural materials / Robert Peters; title: The tension between communities' cultural rights and global interests : the case of the Maori Mokomokai / Federico Lenzerini; title: The definition of intangible cultural heritage / Tullio Scovazzi; title: The role for communities, groups, and individuals under the Convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage / Sabrina Urbinati; title: Culinary traditions as cultural intangible heritage and expressions of cultural diversity / Maria Clara Mafffei; title: The right to recovered underwater cultural heritage : the neglected importance of Article 149 of the UN Law of the Sea Convention / Nicola Ferri; title: The merits of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage / Tullio Scovazzi; title: Historic shipwrecks and the limits of the exclusive rights of the flag state / Patrizia Vigni; title: The dilemma of the right to ownership of underwater cultural heritage : the case of the "Getty Bronze" / Alessandra Lanciotti; title: The human dimension to landscape protection in international law / Amy Strecker; title: Multi-level cooperation to safeguard the human dimension of cultural heritage and to secure the return of wrongfully removed cultural objects / Alessandro Chechi; title: The human dimension of state succession to cultural property : the Balkan lesson / Andrzej Jakubowski; title: Key issues in the relationship between the world heritage convention and climate change regulation / Ottavio Quirico; title: Culture, development, and international law : the linkage between investment rules and the protection of cultural heritage / Valentina Sara Vadi.