Cultural Property Return and International Law

Values, Hegemony and Cultural Biases
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-98000-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Cultural Heritage and International Law

This book explores the current cultural property return frameworks and the values and interests behind them, offering a first step in dealing with existing injustices.

International law regarding cultural property protection has long been criticised for its unrepresentative and distinctly Western nature; this book goes further by unpacking the deep impact this has on a community’s ability to claim the return of their cultural property. The discriminatory reality of legal processes and frameworks becomes clear when they are applied to culturally divergent claims, in particular settler-colonial societies wherein the majority culture and Indigenous cultures have distinct socio-legal frameworks and worldviews. By exploring two case studies, one with culturally convergent parties and one with culturally divergent parties, the cultural origins and historical development of returns processes are illustrated. Exposing these cultural values is necessary to achieve the wider goals of cultural property return - acknowledging and redressing past harms and contemporary structural inequalities.

This book will be of interest to researchers in the field of cultural property, cultural heritage law and international law.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Atencio, Isabella

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstsammlung, Museen, Ausstellungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Restaurierung, Konservierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I

1. Introduction

2. Values Underpinning Cultural Property Protection

PART II

3. Development in Convergent Cultural Contexts

4. Values Underpinning Convergent Cultural Contexts

PART III

5. Development in Divergent Cultural Contexts

PART IV

6. Values Underpinning Divergent Cultural Contexts

7. Analysis of the Values and Interests

8. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Isabella Atencio is an independent cultural heritage researcher based in the UK. After attending Queen Mary, University of London and the London School of Economics for her LL.B. and LL.M. respectively, she received her Ph.D in law from the University of Warwick. Isabella’s academic focus is the return of cultural property taken during periods of historical injustice.