The Right to Memory : History, Media, Law, and Ethics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tirosh, Noam.

Contributor:

Reading, Anna.

Series:

Worlds of Memory

Worlds of Memory ; v.10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory--Social aspects.

Collective memory.

Memory--Social aspects.

Memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (178 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2023.

Summary:

The field of memory studies has typically focused on everyday memory and commemoration practices through which we construct meaning and identities. The Right to Memory looks beyond these everyday practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order to legitimize and protect groups and individuals. With case studies including Polish Holocaust Law, the Indian origins of Amartya Sen’s capability theory approach, and the right to memory through digital technologies in Brazilian and British museums, this collected volume seeks to establish the right to memory as a foundational topic in memory studies.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Introduction: A Right to Memory

Chapter 1 - Antigone's Shadow: Human Rights, Memory, and the Two World Wars

Chapter 2 - Framing Memory Rights in International Law

Chapter 3 - The "Duty to Remember" and the "Right to Memory": Memory Politics and Neoliberal Logic

Chapter 4 - Memory, Rights, and Sen's "Capabilities Approach"

Chapter 5 - "The Memory Belongs to No One and It Belongs to Everyone": An Analysis of a Grassroots Claim to the Right to Memory

Chapter 6 - Using and Abusing Memory Laws in Search of "Historical Truth": The Case of the 2018 Amendments to the Polish Institute of National Rembrance Act

Chapter 7 - The Right to Produce Memory: Social Memory Technology as Cultural Work

Chapter 8 - Beyond a Human Right to Memory

Conclusion

Index.

Notes:

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Other Format:

Print version: Tirosh, Noam The Right to Memory

ISBN:

9781800738584

1800738587

OCLC:

1355911713