The Concept of Cultural Genocide

An International Law Perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID8089677
AuthorsElisa Novic (corresponding author)
Year2016
Pages288
Publication date2016-10-20
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Concept of Cultural Genocide (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198787167.001.0001
OpenAlexW4248467801
Open LibraryOL27708292M
ISBN9780198787167
LanguageEN
Citations received25

Cultural genocide remains a recurrent topic, appearing not only in the form of wide-ranging claims about the commission of cultural genocide in diverse contexts but also in the legal sphere, with recent discussions before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and in the drafting of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. These discussions have however displayed the lack of a uniform understanding of the concept of cultural genocide and, consequently, of the role that international law is expected to fulfil in this regard. This book therefore intends to present an exhaustive review of how international law has been approaching the core idea underlying the concept of cultural genocide, i.e. the intentional destruction of group cultures, and how this framework can be strengthened and fostered. It therefore traces developments, from the early conceptualization of cultural genocide to the contemporary question of its reparation. Through this journey, it discusses the evolution of various branches of international law in relation to both cultural protection and cultural destruction, in light of a number of legal cases in which either the concept of cultural genocide or the idea of cultural destruction has been discussed. Such cases include the destruction of cultural and religious heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the forced removals of Aboriginal children in Australia and Canada, and the case law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in relation to Indigenous and tribal groups’ cultural destruction

Conceptualization · Cultural heritage · Genocide · Human rights · Indigenous · International law · Political science · Sociology · Tribunal · Archaeological Research and Protection · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Cultural property · Culture and law · Ethnic conflict · Ethnozid · International law and human rights · Internationales Recht · law and legislation · Persecution · Protection (International law) · Law

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