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Art and Human Rights
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Contemporary Issues
9781802208146 Edward Elgar Publishing
This timely book builds bridges between the notions of art and aesthetics, human rights, universality, and dignity. It explores a world in which art and justice enter a discussion to answer questions such as: can art translate the human experience? How does humanity link individuality and community building? How do human beings define and look for their identity? The fields of human rights and art are brought together in order to open the discussion and contribute to the promotion and protection of human rights.
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This timely book builds bridges between the notions of art and aesthetics, human rights, universality, and dignity. It explores a world in which art and justice enter a discussion to answer questions such as: can art translate the human experience? How does humanity link individuality and community building? How do human beings define and look for their identity? The fields of human rights and art are brought together in order to open the discussion and contribute to the promotion and protection of human rights.
This interdisciplinary book brings together experts in the fields of art, cultural heritage, social justice, human rights, international law, and transitional justice, and presents the idea that a complex interplay between morality, politics, law, and aesthetics remains present in concrete settings such as the rights of cultural creators, the right to artistic expression, art as a catalyst of change in times of conflict, and post-conflict restitutions. The book offers vignettes of current debates in art and human rights, tackling issues at the confluence of these fields by providing a general framework upon which the conversation can be built, and by bringing to the discussion a diverse range of contemporary themes and concrete case analyses.
This book will be an ideal read for academics interested in international law, transitional justice and human rights. Historians, lawyers, artists, and activists looking to explore the relationship between art and human rights in times of war, peace, and transition through their assessment of contemporary issues will also benefit from this comprehensive book.
This interdisciplinary book brings together experts in the fields of art, cultural heritage, social justice, human rights, international law, and transitional justice, and presents the idea that a complex interplay between morality, politics, law, and aesthetics remains present in concrete settings such as the rights of cultural creators, the right to artistic expression, art as a catalyst of change in times of conflict, and post-conflict restitutions. The book offers vignettes of current debates in art and human rights, tackling issues at the confluence of these fields by providing a general framework upon which the conversation can be built, and by bringing to the discussion a diverse range of contemporary themes and concrete case analyses.
This book will be an ideal read for academics interested in international law, transitional justice and human rights. Historians, lawyers, artists, and activists looking to explore the relationship between art and human rights in times of war, peace, and transition through their assessment of contemporary issues will also benefit from this comprehensive book.
Contributors
Contributors: Marina Aksenova, Karima Bennoune, Bernadette Buckley, Alessandro Chechi, Laurence Cuny, Michael Danti, Predrag Dojčinović, Roula El Derbas, Fiana Gantheret, Sofia N. Gonzalez Ayala, Nolwenn Guibert, Germaine Ingram, Rachel Kerr, Cristina Lleras, Marina Lostal, Rose Martin, Hannah Partis-Jennings, Agnieszka Plata, Henry Redwood, Toni Shapiro-Phim, Elsa Stamatopoulou, Sofia Stolk, Kamil Zeidler, Shyrine Ziadeh
Contents
Contents:
Foreword
Karima Bennoune x
Introduction 1
Fiana Gantheret
PART I PEACE: THE RIGHT TO ART
SECTION 1.1 RIGHT TO CULTURE: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
1 Legal framework: Is there a right to art? 19
Nolwenn Guibert
2 The human rights of artists: What did the pandemic teach us? 38
Elsa Stamatopoulou
SECTION 1.2 RIGHT TO ARTISTIC EXPRESSION
3 Dancing in dialogue: The notion of dance in politically
fragile contexts 60
Rose Martin and Shyrine Ziadeh
4 Progressive autonomy of artistic freedom in international
law: The contribution of the UN in promoting new
economic, social, and cultural rights-based approaches 76
Laurence Cuny
SECTION 1.3 ART AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
5 Freedom and the archive 99
Germaine Ingram and Toni Shapiro-Phim
PART II CONFLICT(S)
SECTION 2.1 REPRESENTATION OF CONFLICT THROUGH ART
6 Seeing and unseeing war in Afghanistan: War, trauma and
contestation of the human rights frame 121
Henry Redwood and Hannah Partis-Jennings
7 The forensification of propaganda in epic poetry and Serb
leadership cases at the ICTY 141
Predrag Dojčinović
SECTION 2.2 ART AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE IN CONFLICT
8 War on war! Artful weapons in times of war and conflict 165
Bernadette Buckley
9 Cultural diplomacy: The theory and the practice of
a bridging concept 188
Roula El Derbas
SECTION 2.3 ART: A TARGET OF CONFLICT
10 Preserving and protecting cultural property, art, and
antiquities during conflict: Recent experiences in Syria,
Iraq, and Libya 209
Michael Danti
PART III POST-CONFLICT APPROACHES
SECTION 3.1 ART IN NON-JUDICIARY
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE MECHANISMS
11 Art, truth, reconciliation and resistance: Reaching out in
Sierra Leone and Canada 230
Rachel Kerr
12 Take me to court: Museum-making and transitional justice
in Colombia 247
Sofía N. González-Ayala and Cristina Lleras
SECTION 3.2 INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND ART
13 Artistic strategies by and about the International Criminal Court 266
Sofia Stolk
14 Reparations for cultural heritage destruction at the ICC
and the limits of human rights 281
Marina Lostal
SECTION 3.3 RESTITUTION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY
15 Restitution of WWII cultural property: Philosophical and
legal approach 306
Kamil Zeidler and Agnieszka Plata
16 The return of the cultural objects displaced during the
colonial era: An overview of solutions, challenges and
misgivings from the perspective of international law 327
Alessandro Chechi
Conclusion: Universality, dignity, and the five great elements 346
Marina Aksenova
Index
Foreword
Karima Bennoune x
Introduction 1
Fiana Gantheret
PART I PEACE: THE RIGHT TO ART
SECTION 1.1 RIGHT TO CULTURE: CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
1 Legal framework: Is there a right to art? 19
Nolwenn Guibert
2 The human rights of artists: What did the pandemic teach us? 38
Elsa Stamatopoulou
SECTION 1.2 RIGHT TO ARTISTIC EXPRESSION
3 Dancing in dialogue: The notion of dance in politically
fragile contexts 60
Rose Martin and Shyrine Ziadeh
4 Progressive autonomy of artistic freedom in international
law: The contribution of the UN in promoting new
economic, social, and cultural rights-based approaches 76
Laurence Cuny
SECTION 1.3 ART AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
5 Freedom and the archive 99
Germaine Ingram and Toni Shapiro-Phim
PART II CONFLICT(S)
SECTION 2.1 REPRESENTATION OF CONFLICT THROUGH ART
6 Seeing and unseeing war in Afghanistan: War, trauma and
contestation of the human rights frame 121
Henry Redwood and Hannah Partis-Jennings
7 The forensification of propaganda in epic poetry and Serb
leadership cases at the ICTY 141
Predrag Dojčinović
SECTION 2.2 ART AS A CATALYST FOR CHANGE IN CONFLICT
8 War on war! Artful weapons in times of war and conflict 165
Bernadette Buckley
9 Cultural diplomacy: The theory and the practice of
a bridging concept 188
Roula El Derbas
SECTION 2.3 ART: A TARGET OF CONFLICT
10 Preserving and protecting cultural property, art, and
antiquities during conflict: Recent experiences in Syria,
Iraq, and Libya 209
Michael Danti
PART III POST-CONFLICT APPROACHES
SECTION 3.1 ART IN NON-JUDICIARY
TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE MECHANISMS
11 Art, truth, reconciliation and resistance: Reaching out in
Sierra Leone and Canada 230
Rachel Kerr
12 Take me to court: Museum-making and transitional justice
in Colombia 247
Sofía N. González-Ayala and Cristina Lleras
SECTION 3.2 INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE AND ART
13 Artistic strategies by and about the International Criminal Court 266
Sofia Stolk
14 Reparations for cultural heritage destruction at the ICC
and the limits of human rights 281
Marina Lostal
SECTION 3.3 RESTITUTION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY
15 Restitution of WWII cultural property: Philosophical and
legal approach 306
Kamil Zeidler and Agnieszka Plata
16 The return of the cultural objects displaced during the
colonial era: An overview of solutions, challenges and
misgivings from the perspective of international law 327
Alessandro Chechi
Conclusion: Universality, dignity, and the five great elements 346
Marina Aksenova
Index
