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International Heritage Law for Communities: Exclusion and Re-Imagination

International Heritage Law for Communities: Exclusion and Re-Imagination

Author: Lucas Lixinski
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198843306
Published In: June 2019
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This book critically engages the shortcomings of the field of international heritage law, seen through the lenses of the five major UNESCO treaties for the safeguarding of different types of heritage.

It argues that these five treaties have effectively prevented local communities, who bear the brunt of the costs associated with international heritage protection, from having a say in how their heritage is managed. The exclusion of local communities often alienates them not only from international decision-making processes but also from their cultural heritage itself, ultimately meaning that systems put in place for the protection of cultural heritage contribute to its disappearance in the long term.

International Heritage Law for Communities adds to existing literature by looking at these UNESCO treaties not as isolated regimes, but rather as belonging to a discursive continuum on cultural heritage. In doing so, the book focuses on themes that cut across the relevant UNESCO regimes like the use of expert rule in international heritage law, economics, the relationship between heritage and the environment, among others, rather than the regimes themselves.

It uses this mechanism to highlight the blind spots and unintended consequences of UNESCO treaties and how choices made in their drafting have continuing and potentially negative impacts on how we think about and safeguard heritage.

1: Introduction

2: Definitions: From Cultural Property to Cultural Heritage (and Back?)

3: Stakeholders in International Heritage Law

4: Temporalities of International Heritage Law

5: International Heritage Law and the Market

6: Heritage and the Environment

7: Implementation and Enforcement of International Heritage Law

8: The Bright and Dark Sides of International Heritage Law

9: Conclusions