Art and human rights : a multidisciplinary approach to contemporary issues / edited by Fiana Gantheret (Expert and Consultant in International Justice and Human Rights, Founder and Director of Creating Rights), Nolwenn Guibert (Senior Legal Officer at an international organization, Geneva, Switzerland) and Sofia Stolk (Assistant Professor, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gantheret, Fiana, editor.

Guibert, Nolwenn, editor.

Stolk, Sofia, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and society.

Human rights in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (388 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

"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. 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. Such Chapters offer vignettes of the current debates in the fields of art and human rights, tackling the issues at the confluence of these fields by providing both a general framework to understand the basis upon which the conversation can be built, and also 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Contents: Foreword / Karima Bennoune

Introduction / 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? / Nolwenn Guibert

2. The human rights of artists: What did the pandemic teach us? / Elsa Stamatopoulou

Section 1.2 right to artistic expression

3. Dancing in dialogue: The notion of dance in politically fragile contexts / 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 / Laurence Cuny

Section 1.3 art and social justice

5. Freedom and the archive / 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 / Henry Redwood and Hannah Partis-Jennings

7. The forensification of propaganda in epic poetry and serb leadership cases at the icty / Predrag Dojcinovic

Section 2.2 art as a catalyst for change in conflict

8. War on war! Artful weapons in times of war and conflict / Bernadette Buckley

9. Cultural diplomacy: The theory and the practice of a bridging concept / 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 / 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 / Rachel Kerr

12. Take me to court: Museum-making and transitional justice in colombia / Sofia N. Gonzalez-Ayala and Cristina Lleras

Section 3.2 international criminal justice and art

13. Artistic strategies by and about the international criminal court / Sofia Stolk

14. Reparations for cultural heritage destruction at the ICC and the limits of human rights / Marina Lostal

Section 3.3 restitution of cultural property

15. Restitution of wwii cultural property: Philosophical and legal approach / 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 / Alessandro Chechi

Conclusion: Universality, dignity, and the five great elements 346 marina aksenova

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781802208153

1802208151

OCLC:

1380359284