Restoring the Law of Restitution of Cultural Property - Complex Colonial Histories

This book covers the restoration of the law of restitution of cultural property, matching the time, space and depth dimensions of the law with the time, space and ontology of events that violated persons and desecrated their heritage in the colonial era. It will be useful to researchers of cultural property law and heritage studies.

List of contents

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Table of cases
Table of legal instruments
1. Questions of 'normativity' and the 'sacred' in restitution claims
2. Normative conflicts
3. Restoring the law for the restitution of 'sacred' cultural heritage
4. Towards a coherent theory of responsibility for the 'sacred'
Index

About the author

Christa Roodt is Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow, UK. She specialises in the provenance and restitution of cultural heritage and acts as consultant on projects designed to achieve a more appropriate international regime for the protection and return of cultural objects removed from colonial, archaeological, and Nazi-era contexts. She is a serving member of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles.

Summary

This book covers the restoration of the law of restitution of cultural property, matching the time, space and depth dimensions of the law with the time, space and ontology of events that violated persons and desecrated their heritage in the colonial era. It will be useful to researchers of cultural property law and heritage studies.

Product details

• Authors: Christa Roodt, Roodt Christa
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032952499
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3295249-9
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural Heritage and International Law
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / Social History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, Social & cultural history, LAW / International, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, International Law, Legal History, Social and cultural history, Social Law, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, Social law and Medical law