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.

• List of TablesPrefaceNoam Tirosh and Anna ReadingIntroduction: A Right to MemoryNoam Tirosh and Anna ReadingChapter 1. Antigone’s Shadow: Human rights, Memory and the Two World WarsJay WinterChapter 2. Framing Memory Rights in International LawAnna ReadingChapter 3. The ‘Duty to Remember’ and the ‘Right to Memory’: Memory Politics and the Neoliberal LogicLea DavidChapter 4. Memory, Rights and Sen’s “Capabilities Approach”Noam Tirosh and Amit SchejterChapter 5. “The memory belongs to no one and it belongs to everyone”: An analysis of a grassroots claim to the right to memoryRebecca KookChapter 6. Using and abusing memory laws in search for “historical truth” – the case of the 2018 Amendments to the Polish Institute of National Remembrance ActAleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias and Grażyna BaranowskaChapter 7. The Right to Produce Memory: Social Memory Technology as Cultural WorkKaren Worcman and Joanne Garde-HansenChapter 8. Beyond A Human Right to MemoryAnna ReadingConclusionIndex

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