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

• Funder: transcript: Open Library 2021 (Politik)
• Author: Braun, Kathrin, 1960-; transcript: Open Library 2021 (Politik)
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Politik Ser.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (194 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Introduction: Coming to Terms with Biopolitics, Temporality and Historic Justice -- 2 Biopolitics and Modernity: Revisiting the Eugenics Project -- 3 Nazi Sterilization Policy, Second-Order Injustice and the Struggle for Reparations -- 4 Justice at Last: The Persecution of Homosexual Men and the Politics of Amends -- 5 Marginal Justice: Coming to Terms with the Persecution of the 'Asocials' -- 6 Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault on Biopolitics, Time and Totalitarianism -- 7 Increasing the Forces of Life: Biopolitics, Capitalism and Time in Marx and Foucault -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- References