Biopolitics and Historic Justice - Coming to Terms with the Injuries of Normality

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.

About the author

Kathrin Braun lehrt und forscht am Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Risiko- und Innovationsforschung (ZIRIUS) und am Lehrstuhl für Technik- und Umweltsoziologie der Universität Stuttgart.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Kathrin Braun, Braun Kathrin
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2021
• EAN: 9783837645507
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-4550-7
• No. of pages: 194
• Dimensions: 147 mm x 15 mm x 226 mm
• Weight: 666 g
• Series: Edition Politik; Political Science; Political Science (COL)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Miscellaneous; Zwanzigstes Jahrhundert, Geschichte, Politikwissenschaft, 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Kulturwissenschaften, Cultural Studies, Populärkultur, Wissenschaft / Kulturwissenschaften, Politik / Politikwissenschaft, Politologie, Trivialkultur, Nazi Crimes; Political Temporality; Human Rights Violations; Law; Memory Culture; Contemporary History; Human Rights; Political Science