Carsten Stahn

Confronting Colonial Objects

Histories, Legalities, and Access to Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Confronting Colonial Objects traces recurring justifications and contestations of takings and returns in colonial history through the life story of cultural objects. It develops a theory based on justice, ethics, and human rights that confronts ongoing historic, legal, and economic entanglements and enables normative transformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 592
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 66mm
• Gewicht: 1043g
• ISBN-13: 9780192868121
• ISBN-10: 0192868128
• Artikelnr.: 68503655

Autorenporträt

Carsten Stahn is Professor of International Criminal Law and Global Justice at the Leiden Law School and Queen's University Belfast. He is former Legal Officer at the ICC and author/editor of 17 books and over 80 articles in international law and international justice. He holds a PhD and Habilitation from Humboldt University Berlin. He received the Ciardi Prize of the International Society for Military Law and multiple research grants from the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO) on Post-Conflict Justice and jus post bellum.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Confronting colonial heritage: Introducing entanglements,
continuities, and transformations
* 2: Collecting mania, racial science, and cultural conversion through
forcible expeditions
* 3: The scramble for cultural colonial objects: Other types of
acquisition
* 4: Collecting humanity: Commodification, trophy hunting, and
bio-colonialism
* 5: Law's complicity in cultural takings and colonial violence: Double
standards, discursive silencing, and social transformation
* 6: Colonial and post-colonial continuities in culture heritage
protection: Narratives and counter-narratives
* 7: Acknowledging the past, righting the future: Changing ethical and
legal frames
* 8: Beyond to return or not to return - towards relational cultural
justice