ABSTRACT
This introduction discusses the key objective of this part of the volume, which is to envision how, together, law studies, and heritage studies can contribute to shaping social justice and sustainable development, within what is known today as heritage and beyond its limits. It brings an overview of what defines heritage in the society of today, and what roles it is called to play, to challenge the notion of value by asking whether heritage can be viewed as a quality or as an action. Considering heritage as a battlefield, the introduction then goes on to examine how heritage can support emancipation, particularly raising the notion of the pluriverse to ask if pluralizing heritage could pluralize the law. The introduction, which relies on excerpts from the nine chapters in this part of the volume, then presents each of them.
