Victim''s Shoe, a Broken Watch, and Marbles - Desire Objects and Human Rights

Lea David examines how artifacts of atrocities circulate and, in so doing, sheds new light on the institutions and social processes that shape collective memory of human rights abuses.

List of contents

Prologue
Introduction: Desire Objects and Human Rights
Part I. The Conceptual Framework
1. Desire Objects
2. A Theoretical Model: Desire Objects and Moral Labor
3. Ideological Coatings: Human Rights and Nationalism
Part II. The Movement and Biographies of Desire Objects
4. The First Circuit: The Survival of Personal Objects After an Atrocity
5. The Second Circuit: Desire Objects in Private Homes
6. The Third Circuit: Public Display, Moral Labor, and the Discursive Value of Desire Objects
Part III. Moral Labor,Political Action, and Human Rights
7. Other Shoes Paved the Way: On the Circulation of Knowledge
8. Desire Objects, Political Action, and Ideology
9. Concluding Remarks: Desire Objects, Moral Labor, Ideologies, and Tacit Memory
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Lea David is an assistant professor in the School of Sociology, University College Dublin. She is the author of The Past Can’t Heal Us: The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights (2020).

Summary

Lea David examines how artifacts of atrocities circulate and, in so doing, sheds new light on the institutions and social processes that shape collective memory of human rights abuses.

Product details

• Authors: Lea David
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.12.2024
• EAN: 9780231217743
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21774-3
• No. of pages: 344
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Politics & government, Politics and government, Human rights, civil rights, Museology and heritage studies, Violence and abuse in society, Violent crimes, political science; social science; art