The Right to Memory: History, Media, Law, and Ethics
New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2023), x, 168 pp.
Contains index
Series: Worlds of Memory, 10
ISBN 978-1-80073-858-4 (ebook); 978-1-80073-857-7 (hbk)
"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." (Publisher description)
Introduction. A Right to Memory / Noam Tirosh and Anna Reading, 1
1 Antigone’s Shadow: Human Rights, Memory, and the Two World Wars / Jay Winter, 17
2 Framing Memory Rights in International Law / Anna Reading, 33
3 The “Duty to Remember” and the “Right to Memory”: Memory Politics and Neoliberal Logic / Lea David, 53
4 Memory, Rights, and Sen’s “Capabilities Approach” / Noam Tirosh and Amit Schejter, 76
5 “The Memory Belongs to No One and It Belongs to Everyone”: An Analysis of a Grassroots Claim to the Right to Memory / Rebecca Kook, 92
6 Using and Abusing Memory Laws in Search of “Historical Truth”: The Case of the 2018 Amendments to the Polish Institute of National Remembrance Act / Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias and Grazyna Baranowska, 112
7 The Right to Produce Memory: Social Memory Technology as Cultural Work / Karen Worcman and Joanne Garde-Hansen, 132
8 Beyond a Human Right to Memory / Anna Reading, 149
Conclusion, 162
1 Antigone’s Shadow: Human Rights, Memory, and the Two World Wars / Jay Winter, 17
2 Framing Memory Rights in International Law / Anna Reading, 33
3 The “Duty to Remember” and the “Right to Memory”: Memory Politics and Neoliberal Logic / Lea David, 53
4 Memory, Rights, and Sen’s “Capabilities Approach” / Noam Tirosh and Amit Schejter, 76
5 “The Memory Belongs to No One and It Belongs to Everyone”: An Analysis of a Grassroots Claim to the Right to Memory / Rebecca Kook, 92
6 Using and Abusing Memory Laws in Search of “Historical Truth”: The Case of the 2018 Amendments to the Polish Institute of National Remembrance Act / Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias and Grazyna Baranowska, 112
7 The Right to Produce Memory: Social Memory Technology as Cultural Work / Karen Worcman and Joanne Garde-Hansen, 132
8 Beyond a Human Right to Memory / Anna Reading, 149
Conclusion, 162
