Cultural Rights in International Law and Discourse : Contemporary Challenges and Interdisciplinary Perspectives.

Intro -- Cultural Rights in International Law and Discourse: Contemporary Challenges and Interdisciplinary Perspectives -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- 1 Introduction: Cultural Rights-A Radical Hope? -- 1.1 Clarifications of Scope and Approach -- 1.1.1 The Distinction between Minority Rights and Cultural Rights -- 1.1.2 The Relationship between Cultural Rights and Other Freedoms -- 1.1.3 The Distinction between Cultural Rights and the Protection of Culture -- 1.1.4 Culture, Anthropology and Human Rights -- 1.1.5 On Defining Culture -- 2 Culture and Anthropology -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Sameness and Difference -- 2.2.1 Culture, Behaviour and Thought -- 2.3 Forms of Abstraction and Forms of Explanation -- 2.3.1 Culture as Functional -- 2.4 Culture and the Study of Meanings -- 2.4.1 Interpreting Culture -- 2.4.2 Culture and Social Processes -- 2.5 Meanings and Practice: Contemporary Perspectives -- 2.5.1 Practice and the Habitus -- 2.5.2 The Habitus and the Reproduction of Power -- 2.5.3 Heritage, Power and Practice -- 2.6 Discourse and Identity: The Narrativisation of the Self -- 2.6.1 Identity and Resistance: Gender -- 2.7 Conclusions -- 3 Cultural Rights in the Work of the Treaty Bodies -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies -- 3.2.1 The Working Methods of the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies -- 3.2.2 The Significance of the Work of the Treaty Bodies -- 3.3 Cultural Rights in the Work of the Treaty Bodies -- 3.3.1 Cultural Rights and the CESCR -- 3.3.2 General Principles Governing Article 15 of the ICESCR -- 3.3.3 Definitions of Culture and Derived Obligations under Article 15 of the ICESCR -- 3.3.4 Culture as High and Popular Culture -- 3.3.5 Culture as a Way of Life -- 3.3.6 Cultural Identity -- 3.3.7 Cultural Diversity -- 3.3.8 The Survival of Culture.

3.3.9 Three Dimensions of Culture -- 3.4 Insights from Anthropology into the Work of the Treaty Bodies -- 3.4.1 The Limits of Cultural Rights -- 3.4.2 Implications of Contemporary Anthropology -- 3.4.3 Other Uses of 'Culture' -- 3.5 Conclusions -- 4 Cultural Rights and the Human Rights Treaty Bodies: The Limitations on Cultural Rights -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Legal Framework around the Limitations on Cultural Rights -- 4.2.1 Gender Discrimination and Culture -- 4.3 'Culture' in the Context of Limitations -- 4.3.1 Consequences of Conflating Culture with Values, Beliefs and Stereotypical Roles -- 4.3.2 Understanding the Experiences of Women through the Concepts of Identity and Subjectivity: Anthropological Perspectives -- 4.4 Conclusions -- 5 Conclusions: Cultural Rights and Insights from Anthropology -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Theories of Culture in Anthropology: From Linear Evolutionism to Culture as a System of Narratives and Discourses -- 5.3 The Multiple Dimensions of 'Culture' in the Context of Cultural Rights: From Arts and Institutions to Process and Symbols -- 5.3.1 The Transfigurability of Culture and Its Jurisprudential Implications -- 5.4 Limitations on Cultural Rights: Notions of Choice and Identity -- 5.5 Further Implications: Beyond Legal Narratives -- Bibliography -- Index.

In Cultural Rights in International Law and Discourse, Pok Yin S. Chow explains why the very understanding of 'culture' as described in international human rights law failed to capture and address the cultural concerns of groups and communities worldwide.

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