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Heritage, Indigenous Doing and Wellbeing presents an Aboriginal Australian relational understanding of the world that offers a counter-narrative to the Western notion of heritage and new insights into the potential for sustaining the complex systems that support all life. From an Indigenous Australian perspective, the Western concept of heritage is intentionally exclusionary and supports social, political, economic, and environmental injustice.

The book examines the main issues and challenges associated with privacy and trust on social media in a manner relevant to both practitioners and scholars.

This book engages comprehensively with the dynamics of the transitional justice process in Tunisia and its mechanisms, elaborating lessons for transitional justice practice globally. Grounded in new empirical material as well as a broader awareness of transitional justice, this book provides a thorough assessment of transitional justice in Tunisia.

Drawing on the personal experience of a leading international jurist, this book provides insights into the workings of international law and human rights from a global perspective. The work follows the author’s remarkable journey from a simple village in Nepal to becoming an international jurist acclaimed for his innovative academic and influential practical legal work and nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize. While much has been written on international human rights law, this inspirational...

Drawing on conceptual debates in transitional justice and critical archival studies, as well as empirical cases from various countries around the world, the contributions in this book critically examine the evidentiary value of archives by linking them to a multitude of transitional justice processes, goals and ideals, including remembrance processes, witnessing, reconciliation, non-recurrence, and various struggles against injustices and prevalent violence.

This book provides detailed analysis of the applicability of the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights to issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, a substantial number of complaints concerning such issues have been made to the Court. Human rights claims in the context of the pandemic fall into two broad categories: those based on arguments that states did not put in place sufficient measures to protect individuals from the virus and those entailing arguments that the...

Cultural Objects and Reparative Justice provides a comprehensive legal and historical analysis surrounding a highly debated current question: Where should cultural objects that were removed without consent be located? This book follows an innovative, interdisciplinary approach based in law, history, art history, anthropology, and archaeology and proposes a paradigm for reparations.

It is almost impossible to avoid having a digital footprint. Social media, streaming websites, navigation applications, online shopping websites, and search engines generate a large amount of data about users' digital habits. Tech companies have used this data to “optimize” their products and allow them to better predict users' behaviors, but the collection and use of data has raised new questions about the right to digital privacy.

What happened to commemorative practices, events, and rituals around the world during the pandemic, and especially during lockdown periods in early 2020? The book also grapples with the inquiry as to how did the Covid-19 memory boom emerge? It finally puts forward the claim as the contributions of this book demonstrate: the Covid-19 crisis restricted social interaction but unlocked memory.

Protection for intellectual property has never been absolute; it has always been limited in the public interest. The benefits of intellectual property protection are meant to flow to everyone, not just a limited population of creators and the corporations that represent them. Given this social-utility function, intellectual property regimes must address issues of access, inclusion, and empowerment for marginalized and excluded groups. This handbook defines an approach to considering social...

The importance of cultural heritage - in both its tangible and intangible forms - to sustainable development and its economic, social and environmental components is increasingly evident in the recent practice of intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations at the universal and regional level.

Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts revisits the definition of a record and extends it to include memory, murals, rock art paintings and other objects.

'La liberté d’expression. Pour qui, pour quoi, jusqu’où?' explore les règles de contenu applicables à toute personne qui s’exprime, quels que soient le sujet et le mode de diffusion.

La Cour européenne des droits de l’homme fait figure de dernier rempart lorsque les voies de recours nationales ont fait défaut pour reconnaître et réparer une violation alléguée d’un ou plusieurs droits et libertés contenus dans la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme.

Les archives peuvent servir à prouver les violations des droits de l’homme, notamment les crimes contre l’humanité, et aider à lutter contre l’impunité. Archives et droits humains montre la relation étroite entre ces deux termes et rappelle l’émergence, en droit international, du droit à la vérité, à la justice et à réparation.

Privacy is disappearing. Exploring why the law has struggled to keep up, the author reveals how our current system leaves victims—particularly women, LGBTQ+ people, and marginalized groups—shamed and powerless while perpetrators profit, warping cultural norms around the world.

Our privacy is besieged by tech companies. Companies can do this because our laws are built on outdated ideas that trap lawmakers, regulators, and courts into wrong assumptions about privacy, resulting in ineffective legal remedies to one of the most pressing concerns of our generation

Stored in the Bones, details intangible cultural heritage (ICH) community-based practices, knowledges, and customs with Anishinaabeg and Inninuwag harvesters, showcasing their cultural heritage and providing a new discourse for the promotion and transmission of Indigenous knowledge.

Jews in France suffered a double persecution: one led by the Vichy government, the other imposed by the Nazis. Meanwhile, a propaganda war developed between the Resistance and the official voice of Vichy. The author draws on a array of sources to show how the Resistance both fought and accommodated the deeply entrenched antisemitism within French society.

Contre les fake news, la désinformation à grande échelle, les Archives semblent un rempart essentiel. Conserver et garantir l’accès à des informations vérifiées, fiables, devient un réel enjeu démocratique