Biopolitics and historic justice : coming to terms with the injuries of normality / Kathrin Braun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braun, Kathrin, 1960- author.

Series:

Edition Politik ; Bd. 66.

Political science ; volume 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biopolitics--Germany--20th century.

Biopolitics.

Human rights--Germany--20th century.

Human rights.

Justice.

Germany.

Physical Description:

191 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : Transcript, [2021]

Summary:

Human rights violations linked to norms of health, fitness, and social usefulness have long been overlooked by Historic Justice Studies. Kathrin Braun introduces the concept of "injuries of normality" to capture the specifics of this type of human rights violation and the respective struggles for historic justice. She examines the processes of Vergangenheitsbewältigung in the context of coercive sterilization, institutional killings, as well as the persecution of homosexual men and of "asocials" under Nazi rule. She argues that an analytic perspective on political temporality allows us to better understand the formation of these biopolitical human rights violations and their exclusion from memory and historic justice.

Contents:

1. Introduction: coming to terms with biopolitics, temporality and historic justice

2. Biopolitics and modernity: revisiting the eugenics project

3. Nazi sterilization policy, second-order injustice and the struggle for reparations

4. Justice at last: the persecution of homosexual men and the politics of amends

5. Marginal justice: coming to terms with the persecution of the "asocials"

6. Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault on biopolitics, time, and totalitarianism

7. Increasing the forces of life: biopolitics, capitalism and time in Marx and Foucault.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-191).

ISBN:

9783837645507

3837645509

OCLC:

1276805720