TY  - BOOK
AU  - Maghakyan,Simon
TI  - Sovereign heritage crime: security, autocracy, and the material past 
T2  - Cambridge elements. Elements in critical heritage studies,
SN  - 9781009611879
AV  - CC135 .M3 2026
U1  - 363.69 23
PY  - 2026///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Cultural property
KW  - Dictatorship
KW  - Government liability
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Open access; Specialized
N2  - '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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009611879
ER  -