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Biopolitics and Historic Justice: Coming to Terms with the Injuries of Normality
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Abstract Human rights violations linked to norms of health, fitness, and social usefulness have long been overlooked by Historic Justice Studies. The author introduces the concept of "injuries of normality" to capture the specifics of this type of human rights violation and the respective struggles for histo... view more
Human rights violations linked to norms of health, fitness, and social usefulness have long been overlooked by Historic Justice Studies. The author 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.... view less
Keywords
biotechnology policy; contemporary history; human rights; human rights violation; culture of remembrance; coming to terms with the past; Nazism; totalitarianism
Classification
General History
Free Keywords
Historic Justice; Law; Nazi Crimes; Political Temporality
Document language
English
Publication Year
2021
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
191 p.
Series
Edition Politik, 66
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839445501
ISBN
978-3-8394-4550-1
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0