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Promoting cultural and scientific creativity, and knowledge and understanding, cultural rights work as atrocity prevention tools and enable people to aspire to a better future.
List of contents
Introduction; Part I. Setting the Scene: 1. Law and humanities: a cultural rights perspective; 2. Television judge shows: rights talk and popular culture; Part II. Cultural Rights: 3. The queen of human rights: on the right to education and Malala Yousafzai, I am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban; 4. The right to take part in cultural life: on cultural heritage, identity, and Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence; 5. The right to science: issues, challenges, and Pernille Rørth, Raw Data; 6. Copyright, patents, author's rights, and the right to culture and science; Part III. Connecting Main Themes and Arguments: 7. A global human rights priority: on gender and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions.
About the author
Helle Porsdam is Professor of Law and Humanities and UNESCO Chair in Cultural Rights at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. She is the author of Legally Speaking: Contemporary American Culture and the Law (1999) and From Civil to Human Rights: Dialogues in Law and Humanities in the United States and Europe (2009).
Summary
Cultural rights are transformative and empowering. They enable people to aspire to a better future for themselves and play a key role in realizing all other human rights. This book discusses how cultural rights provide a much-needed discourse to explore, negotiate, and come to new cross-cultural understandings.
