A Human Rights View of the Past

Antoon de Baets (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

80 Seiten

2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
9781009345941 (ISBN)

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This Element explores human rights' theoretical and practical contributions to the study of time, memory, and history. It clarifies the concept of a human rights view of the past, reviews its contributions to each dimension, and highlights the benefits it can bring to historical theory and practice.

The idea of human rights has been much criticized from a historical perspective but curiously enough its theoretical and practical contributions to the study of time, memory, and history have never been systematically explored. How is it to look at the past from a human rights perspective? How can historical writing benefit from applying human rights logic? In tackling these questions, the book first clarifies what a human rights view of the past is. The constituent dimensions of the past – time, memory, and history – are then reviewed, indicating what a human rights perspective can add to the study of each. Finally, the benefits accruing from a human rights view of the past to historical theory and practice are highlighted.

Introduction; 1. A human rights view of the past; 2. A human rights view of time intermezzo: the international freedom of expression framework; 3. A human rights view of memory; 4. A human rights view of history; General Conclusion; Bibliography; Biographical Note.

Erscheinungsdatum	07.01.2025
Reihe/Serie	Elements in Historical Theory and Practice
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	133 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
ISBN-13	9781009345941 / 9781009345941
Zustand	Neuware