1st Edition

Restoring the Law of Restitution of Cultural Property Complex Colonial Histories

By Christa Roodt Copyright 2025
214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

This groundbreaking book covers the restoration of the law of restitution of cultural property, matching the time, space, and depth dimensions of the law with the time, space, and ontology of events that violated persons and desecrated their heritage in the colonial era. Using the contested ownership of the Parthenon Sculptures and the Zhanggong Zushi mummy encased in a Buddha statue as the... Read more

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Table of cases
Table of legal instruments

1. Questions of ‘normativity’ and the ‘sacred’ in restitution claims

2. Normative conflicts

3. Restoring the law for the restitution of ‘sacred’ cultural heritage

4. Towards a coherent theory of responsibility for the ‘sacred’

Index

 

Biography

Christa Roodt is Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow, UK. She specialises in the provenance and restitution of cultural heritage and acts as consultant on projects designed to achieve a more appropriate international regime for the protection and return of cultural objects removed from colonial, archaeological, and Nazi-era contexts. She is a serving member of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles.