Overview

The field of memory studies has typically focused on everyday memory and commemoration practices through which we construct meaning and identities. The Right to Memory looks beyond these everyday practices, focusing instead on how memory relates to human rights and socio-legal constructs in order to legitimize and protect groups and individuals. With case studies including Polish Holocaust Law, the Indian origins of Amartya Sen's capability theory approach, and the right to memory through digital technologies in Brazilian and British museums, this collected volume seeks to establish the right to memory as a foundational topic in memory studies.

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Author:   Noam Tirosh ,  Anna Reading
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Volume:   10
ISBN:  

9781836953722

ISBN 10:   1836953720
Pages:   178
Publication Date:   01 December 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Tables Preface Noam Tirosh and Anna Reading Introduction: A Right to Memory Noam Tirosh and Anna Reading Chapter 1. Antigone’s Shadow: Human rights, Memory and the Two World Wars Jay Winter Chapter 2. Framing Memory Rights in International Law Anna Reading Chapter 3. The ‘Duty to Remember’ and the ‘Right to Memory’: Memory Politics and the Neoliberal Logic Lea David Chapter 4. Memory, Rights and Sen’s “Capabilities Approach” Noam Tirosh and Amit Schejter Chapter 5. “The memory belongs to no one and it belongs to everyone”: An analysis of a grassroots claim to the right to memory Rebecca Kook Chapter 6. Using and abusing memory laws in search for “historical truth” – the case of the 2018 Amendments to the Polish Institute of National Remembrance Act Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias and Grażyna Baranowska Chapter 7. The Right to Produce Memory: Social Memory Technology as Cultural Work Karen Worcman and Joanne Garde-Hansen Chapter 8. Beyond A Human Right to Memory Anna Reading Conclusion Index

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Noam Tirosh is a senior lecturer in the department of Communication Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the author of many journal articles and book chapters covering topics ranging from the European right to be forgotten to the memory rights of the Palestinian minority in Israel, refugees and asylum seekers, and Jews deported from Arab countries.

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