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Human Rights and Memory

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Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2010

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Memories of historical events like the Holocaust have played a key role in the internationalization of human rights. Their importance lies in their ability to bridge the universal and the particular—the universality of human values and the particularity of memories rooted in local human experiences. In Human Rights and Memory, Levy and Sznaider trace the growth of human rights discourse since World War II and interpret its deployment of memories as a new form of cosmopolitanism, exemplifying a dynamic through which global concerns become part of local experiences, and vice versa.

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Contributor: Daniel Levy Daniel Levy is Associate Professor of Sociology at Stony Brook University. --- Contributor: Natan Sznaider Natan Sznaider is Professor of Sociology in the School of Behavioral Sciences at the Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Acknowledgments

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    1. The Ubiquity of Human Rights in a Cosmopolitan Age

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    2. Sociology and Human Rights

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    3. Sovereignty and Human Rights: The Hobbesian Challenge

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    4. International Law and the Formation of Nation-States

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    5. From Minority to Human: The Changing Face of Rights

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    6. The Cold War Period: More Than One Universalism

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    7. The Post–Cold War Period: Globalization and the Cosmopolitan Turn

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    8. Human Rights and the Clash of Memories: The Politics of Forgiveness

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    9. East Meets West: Europe and Its Others

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    10. Human Rights and Sovereignty After 9/11

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    Notes

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    References

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    Index

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May 25, 2021
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9780271051208
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780271051208
eBook ISBN: 9780271051208
Keywords for this book
Human Rights; Cosmopolitanism; Sovereignty; Memory
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