Legalized identities cultural heritage law and the shaping of transitional justice
Cultural heritage is a feature of transitioning societies, from museums commemorating the end of a dictatorship to adding places like the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to the World Heritage List. These processes are governed by specific laws, and yet transitional justice discourses tend to i...
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2021
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Schriftenreihe: | Law in context
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Zusammenfassung: | Cultural heritage is a feature of transitioning societies, from museums commemorating the end of a dictatorship to adding places like the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp to the World Heritage List. These processes are governed by specific laws, and yet transitional justice discourses tend to ignore law's role, assuming that memory in transition emerges organically. This book debunks this assumption, showing how cultural heritage law is integral to what memory and cultural identity is possible in transition. Lixinski attempts to reengage with the original promise of transitional justice: to pragmatically advance societies towards a future where atrocities will no longer happen. The promise in the UNESCO Constitution of lasting peace through cultural understanding is possible through focusing on the intersection of cultural heritage law and transitional justice, as Lixinski shows in this ground-breaking book |
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Beschreibung: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 May 2021) Identity, memory, and transitional justice -- Conservation and reinvention : remaking symbols -- Erasing or replacing symbols -- Creating new symbols -- Cultural heritage as pragmatism |
Beschreibung: | 227 Seiten |
ISBN: | 9781108488150 |
DOI: | 10.1017/9781108769044 |