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Hughes, Lotte --- "Implementing cultural rights (nature, issues at stake and challenges) – Report 2010 (A/HRC/14/36)" [2017] ELECD 1426; in Belder, Lucky; Porsdam, Helle (eds), "Negotiating Cultural Rights" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2017) 37

Book Title: Negotiating Cultural Rights

Editor(s): Belder, Lucky; Porsdam, Helle

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781786435415

Section: Chapter 2

Section Title: Implementing cultural rights (nature, issues at stake and challenges) – Report 2010 (A/HRC/14/36)

Author(s): Hughes, Lotte

Number of pages: 22

Abstract/Description:

This chapter will, in its response to the ‘first report’, draw on my research experience in Kenya since 1997, studying a variety of subjects that have included the history of Maasai land alienation and forced migration, indigenous peoples’ rights and resistance, civil society-led engagement with cultural heritage, state heritage management, museums, and issues around memory and memorialization, including contemporary memorialization of the Mau Mau rebellion that took place in the 1950s in colonial Kenya. It is also relevant to explain that I currently lead a collaborative interdisciplinary research project which is examining how Kenyans are exercising new cultural rights, enshrined in the 2010 constitution. My chapter will therefore draw on empirical knowledge of Kenya in particular, and Africa more broadly. I am an historian of Africa and empire with a Kenya specialism. When presenting in Copenhagen in November 2015 the paper on which this chapter is based, I warned that my paper would be provocative. I also apologized in advance if the Rapporteur had gone on, in later reports, to deal with the issues I raised. I had not read the later reports and was asked to confine my remarks to the one assigned to me; I assume that my fellow speakers did likewise. This first report inspired me to think about broader issues arising, which Ms Shaheed could not have been expected to address at that early stage.