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

Kathrin Braun

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2021

Biopolitics and Historic Justice

Coming to Terms with the Injuries of Normality

Kathrin Braun
Funded by: transcript: Open Library 2021 (Politik)

Volume 66 in the series Edition Politik

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839445501

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Human rights violations linked to norms of health, fitness, and social usefulness have long been overlooked by Historic Justice Studies. This book 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. It examines the processes -of Vergangenheitsbewältigung in the context of coercive sterilization, institutional killings, as well as the persecution of LGBTQ people and of »asocials« under Nazi rule. It 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.

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Kathrin Braun, Universität Stuttgart, Germany

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
1 Introduction: Coming to Terms with Biopolitics, Temporality and Historic Justice Open Access Download PDF	9
2 Biopolitics and Modernity: Revisiting the Eugenics Project Open Access Download PDF	29
3 Nazi Sterilization Policy, Second-Order Injustice and the Struggle for Reparations Open Access Download PDF	55
4 Justice at Last: The Persecution of Homosexual Men and the Politics of Amends Open Access Download PDF	77
5 Marginal Justice: Coming to Terms with the Persecution of the ‘Asocials’ Open Access Download PDF	99
6 Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault on Biopolitics, Time and Totalitarianism Open Access Download PDF	121
7 Increasing the Forces of Life: Biopolitics, Capitalism and Time in Marx and Foucault Open Access Download PDF	141
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	163
List of Abbreviations Open Access Download PDF	165
References Open Access Download PDF	169

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 194
Keywords: Biopolitics; Nazi Crimes; Political Temporality; Human Rights Violations; Law; Memory Culture; Contemporary History; Human Rights; Political Science

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Published: May 27, 2021
ISBN: 9783839445501