Sovereign heritage crime : security, autocracy, and the material past /
Maghakyan, Simon,
Sovereign heritage crime : security, autocracy, and the material past / Simon Maghakyan. - 1 online resource (55 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge elements. Elements in critical heritage studies, 2632-7074 . - Cambridge elements. Cambridge elements. Elements in critical heritage studies. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Open access.
'Sovereign Heritage Crime' explores why autocracies intentionally exacerbate anxieties associated with an aggrieved ethnoterritorial minority's tangible heritage. Since discriminatory domestic campaigns of state-sponsored erasure are political choices, this theoretical study proposes to understand them as sovereign heritage crimes. This framework predicts that heritage securitisation - constructing disquieting material memories into ontological threats - enables legitimacy-deficient yet affluent autocracies to pursue 'performance legitimacy' by delivering a real or imagined 'permanent security'. Since this state crime is both enabled and exposed by traditional and emerging technologies, the study also explores their dual use for human rights and wrongs.
Specialized.
9781009611879 No price No price No price
10.1017/9781009611879 doi
Cultural property.
Dictatorship.
Government liability.
CC135 / .M3 2026
363.69
Sovereign heritage crime : security, autocracy, and the material past / Simon Maghakyan. - 1 online resource (55 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). - Cambridge elements. Elements in critical heritage studies, 2632-7074 . - Cambridge elements. Cambridge elements. Elements in critical heritage studies. .
Includes bibliographical references.
Open access.
'Sovereign Heritage Crime' explores why autocracies intentionally exacerbate anxieties associated with an aggrieved ethnoterritorial minority's tangible heritage. Since discriminatory domestic campaigns of state-sponsored erasure are political choices, this theoretical study proposes to understand them as sovereign heritage crimes. This framework predicts that heritage securitisation - constructing disquieting material memories into ontological threats - enables legitimacy-deficient yet affluent autocracies to pursue 'performance legitimacy' by delivering a real or imagined 'permanent security'. Since this state crime is both enabled and exposed by traditional and emerging technologies, the study also explores their dual use for human rights and wrongs.
Specialized.
9781009611879 No price No price No price
10.1017/9781009611879 doi
Cultural property.
Dictatorship.
Government liability.
CC135 / .M3 2026
363.69