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Sovereign Heritage Crime

Sovereign Heritage Crime
  • Security, Autocracy, and the Material Past
  • Simon Maghakyan
  • Published online:
    24 February 2026
    Print publication:
    19 March 2026
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  • Sovereign Heritage Crime: Security, Autocracy, and the Material Past 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. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

  • 16 - Conclusion

  • Cher Weixia Chen, Alison Dundes Renteln, University of Southern California
  • Book:
    International Human Rights
    Published online:
    11 August 2022
    Print publication:
    11 August 2022, pp 578-583

  • Summary

    This chapter examines some of the most recent human rights concerns including genocide and racism. It also discusses the impact of COVID-19 on human rights including the relationship between government and human rights, the right to health, and technology, and human rights. The chapter highlights the erosion of democratic institutions but looks to the promising future of human rights.