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Confronting Colonial Objects : Histories, Legalities, and Access to Culture

by Carsten Stahn

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series Cultural Heritage Law and Policy
ISBN-10 0192868128
ISBN-13 9780192868121
Publisher Oxford University Press
Imprint Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Oct 13th, 2023
Print length 592 Pages
Weight 1,060 grams
Dimensions 24.20 x 16.70 x 3.90 cms
Product Classification: Museology & heritage studies Colonialism & imperialism National liberation & independence, post-colonialism Public international law
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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.
The treatment of cultural colonial objects is one of the most debated questions of our time. Calls for a new international cultural order go back to decolonization. However, for decades, the issue has been treated as a matter of comity or been reduced to a Shakespearean dilemma: to return or not to return. Confronting Colonial Objects seeks to go beyond these classic dichotomies and argues that contemporary practices are at a tipping point. The book shows that cultural takings were material to the colonial project throughout different periods and went far beyond looting. It presents micro histories and object biographies to trace recurring justifications and contestations of takings and returns while outlining the complicity of anthropology, racial science, and professional networks that enabled colonial collecting. The book demonstrates the dual role of law and cultural heritage regulation in facilitating colonial injustices and mobilizing resistance thereto. Drawing on the interplay between justice, ethics, and human rights, Stahn develops principles of relational cultural justice. He challenges the argument that takings were acceptable according to the standards of the time and outlines how future engagement requires a re-invention of knowledge systems and relations towards objects, including new forms of consent, provenance research, and partnership, and a re-thinking of the role of museums themselves.Following the life story and transformation of cultural objects, this book provides a fresh perspective on international law and colonial history that appeals to audiences across a variety of disciplines. This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

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