1st Edition

Cultural Expertise, Law, and Rights A Comprehensive Guide

Edited By Livia Holden Copyright 2023
378 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

378 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Cultural Expertise, Law, and Rights introduces readers to the theory and practice of cultural expertise in the resolution of conflicts and the claim of rights in diverse societies. Combining theory and case-studies of the use of cultural expertise in real situations, and in a great variety of fields, this is the first book to offer a comprehensive examination of the field of cultural... Read more

Cultural Expertise: Definitions and Positioning

1. What is Cultural Expertise? 

Livia Holden

2. Cultural Expertise and Ethics

Charmaine Cole

3. Cultural Expertise as Decolonisation

Rama Srinivasan

Debates and Boundaries of Cultural Expertise

4. Cultural Expertise and Race

ChorSwang Ngin

5. Cultural Expertise and LGBTQ+

Victoria McCloud

6. Cultural Expertise and Female Genital Cutting/ Female Genital Mutilation

Ruth Mestre, Lotta Wendel and Sara Johnsdotter

7. Cultural Expertise and Multiculturalism

Ralph Grillo

8. Cultural Expertise and Language

Patrick Heinrich

9. Cultural Expertise and the Media

Małgorzata Lisowska-Magdziarz

10. Cultural Expertise and Investigative Journalism

Ticky Monekosso

Cultural Expertise in the Fields of Law

11. Cultural Expertise and Procedural Justice

Stanisław Burdziej

12. Cultural Expertise in Asylum and Refugee Laws

John R Campbell

13. Cultural Expertise and Terrorism Investigations

Ariel Planeix

14. Cultural Expertise and Extreme Speech

Max Steuer

15. Cultural Expertise and Commercial Arbitration

Giorgio Fabio Colombo

16. Cultural Expertise and International Criminal Law

Joshua Isaac Bishay

17. Cultural Expertise and International Human Rights Law

Noora Arajärvi

18. Cultural Expertise and Indigenous Rights

Noelle Higgins

19. Cultural Expertise and Conflict Resolution

Susan F. Hirsch and Brigit R. A. Moore

Cultural Expertise in the World

20. Cultural Expertise in Europe

Livia Holden

21. Cultural Expertise and Indigenous People in Australia

David S. Trigger

22. Cultural Expertise and History in Australia

Tanya Josev

23. Cultural Expertise in South Africa

Christa Rautenbach

24. Cultural Expertise and Indigenous Ecologies

Aurélien Bouayad

25. Cultural Expertise in the United States

ChorSwang Ngin

26. Cultural Expertise in Chile

Roberto Álvarez San Martín 

27. Cultural Expertise in South Asia

Mary Kavita Dominic

28. Cultural Expertise in the Arab Middle East

Dina Haddad

29. Cultural Expertise in Islamic Courts in Indonesia

Euis Nurlaelawati and Witriani

Afterword

30. Afterword: Cultural Expertise Within – and Beyond – the Boundaries of Law

Mark Goodale

Biography

Livia Holden is Director of Research at the CNRS, University of Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, France.

"In this unique and original volume the authors face realistically the roles that experts – particularly those in the ‘soft’ sciences – play in legal and administrative proceedings. With careful regard for issues of race, colonialism, and gender, the essays cover immigration, journalism, and indigenous rights at the highest professional level. It is a book for specialists and the concerned public alike" Lawrence Rosen, Princeton University, USA 

"Social scientists across a broad range of disciplines-- as well as lawyers, judges and paralegal professionals—but most importantly students and their teachers will find this volume of essays an excellent pedagogical resource for their work across a global array of international cultural and legal settings." Carolyn Fluehr-LobbanRhode Island College, USA 

"Livia Holden’s trailblazing work on cultural expertise demonstrates that socio-legal scholarship is now an integral part of the study of cultures. This groundbreaking and comprehensive volume shows how anthropologists deploy knowledge for the protection of basic human rights, thus playing a crucial role for diverse and inclusive societies." Sandra Laugier, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, France

"With theoretical clarity, conceptual precision, and rigorous ethics, this book offers readers powerful methodological and case study examples of the ways that, as part of our service to the courts as cultural experts, we secure vital space in legal processes for a justice that is sensitive to diversity and inclusion as well as structural inequality and disadvantage." Emma Varley, Brandon University, President of the Canadian Anthropology Society [CASCA]