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Culture, heritage, and human rights : an introduction / Francesco Francioni -- The Cross-cultural legitimacy of universal human rights : plural justification across normative divides / Tore Lindholm -- Self-determination and cultural rights / Ana Filipa Vrdoljak -- Cultural rights : a necessary corrective to the nation state / William K. Barth -- Protecting peoples' cultural rights : a question of properly understanding the notion of states and nations / Matthias Ahren -- Indigenous peoples' cultural rights and the controversy over commercial use of their traditional knowledge / Federico Lenzerini -- The right of a people to enjoy its culture : towards a Nordic-Saami Rights Convention / Martin Scheinin -- Cultural identity and legal status : or, the return of the right to have (particular) rights / Eniko Horvath -- Minorities' right to maintain and develop their cultures : legal implications of social science research / Timo Makkonen -- The role of the state in balancing religious freedom with other human rights in a multicultural European context / Stephanie Lagoutte and Eva Maria Lassen -- Accessing culture at the EU level : an indirect contribution to cultural rights protection / Evangelia Psychogiopoulou -- Language rights as cultural rights : a European perspective / Susanna Mancini and Bruno de Witte -- The place of cultural rights in the WTO system / John Morijn -- A right to cultural identity in UNESCO / Yvonne Donders -- Political change and the "creative destruction" of public space / Sanford Levinson.