Buch, Englisch, 255 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 364 g
Reihe: Human Rights in History
Buch, Englisch, 255 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 364 g
Reihe: Human Rights in History
ISBN: 978-1-108-81710-3
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
In this innovative study, Lea David critically investigates the relationship between human rights and memory, suggesting that, instead of understanding human rights in a normative fashion, human rights should be treated as an ideology. Conceptualizing human rights as an ideology gives us useful theoretical and methodological tools to recognize the real impact human rights has on the ground. David traces the rise of the global phenomenon that is the human rights memorialization agenda, termed 'Moral Remembrance', and explores what happens once this agenda becomes implemented. Based on evidence from the Western Balkans and Israel/Palestine, she argues that the human rights memorialization agenda does not lead to a better appreciation of human rights but, contrary to what would be expected, it merely serves to strengthen national sentiments, divisions and animosities along ethnic lines, and leads to the new forms of societal inequalities that are closely connected to different forms of corruptions.
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Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
Weitere Infos & Material
1. Introduction; 2. Human rights as an ideology? Obstacles and benefits; 3. What Is moral remembrance?; 4. The institutionalization of moral remembrance: the case study of Palestine and Israel; 5. The institutionalization of moral remembrance: the case study of Western Balkans; 6. Human rights, memory and micro-solidarity; 7. Mandating memory, mandating conflicts.