01502nas a2200145 4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260003300043100001700076245005500093856011800148300001200266520103100278020004701309 2021 d bEdward Elgar Publishing Ltd.1 aM.S. Weinert00aCultural heritage, cultural rights and care ethics uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85130671825&partnerID=40&md5=8f5e98649ce6f16c36dfc9fcb559d620 a136-1563 aThe perception that cultural rights are lesser forms of rights persists. Countering this, the UN Human Rights Council created in 2009 the position of Special Rapporteur to clarify their meaning and content. This chapter first summarizes the notion of cultural rights and then briefly surveys how technology promotes cultural rights vis-à-vis its care for tangible and intangible cultural heritage. The key insights of the chapter, however, pertain to two deeper ethical implications of the technology - rights - heritage nexus: the dislocation of place, and the displacement of meaning. By emancipating heritage from its specific geographic location, technology has the capacity to generate new opportunities for intercultural understanding and respect for cultural rights, which subsequently supports the UNESCO project of reading heritage as representative of human ingenuity and experience. These implications, in turn, underscore the expressive, creative, social and socially rooted subjects at the heart of human rights. a9781839108433 (ISBN); 9781839108426 (ISBN)