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Record Nr.

UNINA9910647600603321

Autore

Braun Kathrin

Titolo

Biopolitics and Historic Justice : Coming to Terms with the Injuries of Normality / / Kathrin Braun

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2021

ISBN

3-7328-4550-8

Edizione

[1 ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Edition Politik

Soggetti

History / Modern / 20th Century

Political Science / History & Theory

Social Science / Popular Culture

Political science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

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.