Towards a human-rights approach to cultural heritage protection
The concept of cultural heritage and its value is constantly evolving. One can trace its origins to European antiquarianism in the modern period, when it was limited to tangible assets such as objects, buildings and monuments as a means to underpin the national identity of nation-states. A cabinet of curiosities or the idea of containing ‘the world in one room’ illustrates this notion. It is only within the last quarter of a century that the concept has broadened to incorpora