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dc.rights.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.contributor.advisorVerdonschot, Clint
dc.contributor.authorBernet Kempers, Felix
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-01T00:00:23Z
dc.date.available2021-11-01T00:00:23Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.identifier.urihttps://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/185
dc.description.abstractWith more and more pressure mounting on museums to repatriate stolen and looted artefacts to source communities, a clear ethical framework is still missing. In a world where existing legal frameworks seem able to provide little guidance when it comes to ethical dilemmas surrounding restitution issues, the need for alternative frameworks becomes all the more pressing. Furthermore, the repatriation debate within philosophy is held hostage by a stalemate between two opposite positions concerning cultural property, cultural internationalism and cultural nationalism. In this thesis I will explore when the repatriation of stolen and looted art and artefacts is morally justified. First, the practice of repatriation is illuminated and I reveal the universal museum as an institution in line with cultural internationalism. Both cultural internationalism and cultural nationalism will be applied to a cases involving ancient looted art, Nazi looted art and the litmus test of repatriation claims: colonial looted art. In the last chapter I propose an alternative framework that deploys arguments from the cultural internationalist framework in favour of repatriation and combine them with Bernard Boxill’s harm argument from the debate about reparations for slavery.
dc.description.sponsorshipUtrecht University
dc.language.isoEN
dc.subjectWith more and more pressure mounting on museums to repatriate stolen and looted artefacts to source communities, a clear ethical framework is still missing. In a world where existing legal frameworks seem able to provide little guidance when it comes to ethical dilemmas surrounding restitution issues, the need for alternative frameworks becomes all the more pressing.
dc.titleRepatriation Beyond Property
dc.type.contentMaster Thesis
dc.rights.accessrightsOpen Access
dc.subject.keywordsRepatriation, reparation, cultural heritage, cultural internationalism, cultural nationalism
dc.subject.courseuuApplied Ethics
dc.thesis.id544


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