Truth Claims

by Bradley, Mark Philip; Petro, Patrice

• ISBN13: 9780813530529
• ISBN10: 0813530520
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-01
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Summary

Among the signal developments of the last third of the twentieth century has been the emergence of a new politics of human rights. The transnational circulation of norms, networks, and representations has advanced human rights claims in ways that have reshaped global practices. Just as much as the transnational flow of capital, the new human rights politics are part of the phenomenon that has come to be termed globalization. Shifting the focus from the sovereignty of the nation to the rights of individuals, regardless of nationality, the interplay between the local and the global in these new human rights claims are fundamentally redrawing the boundaries between the rights of individuals, states, and the international community.

Truth Claims brings together for the first time some of the best new work from a variety of disciplinary and geographic perspectives exploring the making of human rights claims and the cultural politics of their representations. All of the essays, whether dealing with the state and its victims, receptions of human rights claims, or th

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	1	(10)
Mark Philip Bradley
Patrice Petro
Part I. The State and Its Victims
Remembering to Forget	11	(12)
Marilyn B. Young
``Law, Not Vengeance'': Human Rights, the Rule of Law, and the Claims of Memory in German Holocaust Trials	23	(20)
Devin O. Pendas
Anticommunism, North Korea, and Human Rights in South Korea: ``Orientalist'' Discourse and Construction of South Korean Identity	43	(30)
Namhee Lee
The Politics of Apology between Japan and Korea	73	(22)
Alexis Dudden
Part II. Receptions of Human Rights Claims
``The Lie Is a Truth, Too'': Selected Paintings	95	(12)
Leon Golub
Human Rights, Freedom of Information, and the Origins of Third-World Solidarity	107	(24)
Kenneth Cmiel
Exhibiting Terror	131	(26)
Lindsay French
Representing Bosnia: Human Rights Claims and Global Media Culture	157	(30)
James Castonguay
Knowing Enough Not to Feel Too Much: Emotional Thinking about Human Rights Appeals	187	(18)
Stanley Cohen
Bruna Seu
Part III. Transnational Rights Claims in the Era of Globalization
Rights, Remains, and Material Culture: Legal Pluralism in Native America	205	(24)
Robert H. McLaughlin
Intellectual Property, Resources, or Territory? Reframing the Debate over Indigenous Rights, Traditional Knowledge, and Pharmaceutical Bioprospection	229	(22)
Shane Greene
The Transnational Geography of Sexual Rights	251	(16)
Ara Wilson
Notes on Contributors	267	(2)
Index	269