{"product_id":"sovereign-heritage-crime-simon-maghakyan-9781009611855","title":"Sovereign Heritage Crime: Security, Autocracy, and the Material Past","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon Maghakyan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1009611852\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781009611855\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cambridge University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/19\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d","brand":"Simon Maghakyan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48623555772671,"sku":"9781009611855","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_50ee9360-06e0-44d7-a651-07a136720caf.jpg?v=1780433235","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sovereign-heritage-crime-simon-maghakyan-9781009611855","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}