The Right to Memory

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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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