"This book grew out of a workshop, Heritage, Culture and Rights: Challenging Discourses, which we convened under the auspices of the Australian Human Rights Centre at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney and the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, with financial and infrastructure support from UNSW Law and a grant from the Australian National Commission for UNESCO."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Opening the toolbox of international human rights law in the safeguarding of cultural heritage / Francesco Francioni and Lucas Lixinski -- Culture, rights and the post-2015 development agenda / Ben Boer -- Cultural heritage, human rights and the privatisation of war / Ana Fikipa Vrdoljak -- The urban village and the megaproject : linking vernacular urban heritage and human rights-based development in the emerging megacities of Southeast Asia / Scott Hawken -- Between rights in the city and the right to the city : heritage, character and public participation in urban planning / Amelia Thorpe -- The tension between rights and cultural heritage protection in China / Stefan Gruber -- Heritage and human rights : reframing the conservation ethic / Josephine Gillespie -- The poverty of world heritage management in sub-Saharan Africa : the legacy of colonialism and disregard of human rights / Folarin Shyllo -- Cultural heritage as transformation : a study of four sites from post-apartheid South Africa / Andrea Durbach -- Heritage listing as self-determination / Lucas Lixinski -- World heritage, cultural conflicts and political reconciliation / Andrzej Jakubowski.