Isbn: 9780812223491 - how to accept german reparations (pennsylvania studies in human rights) (6 Ergebnisse)

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Zustand: New. Susan Slyomovics examines the implications of German reparations after World War II, working through the lens of anthropological and human rights discourse, as well as through the lives of Holocaust survivors in her own family. What does it mean for individual suffering to be monetized? Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. Num Pages: 384 pages, 18 illus. BIC Classification: LBBR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 562. . 2015. Reprint. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a landmark process that transformed global reparations after the Holocaust, Germany created the largest sustained redress program in history, amounting to more than $60 billion. When human rights violations are presented primarily in material terms, acknowledging an indemnity claim becomes one way for a victim to be recognized. At the same time, indemnifications provoke a number of difficult questions about how suffering and loss can be measured: How much is an individual life worth How much or what kind of violence merits compensation What is 'financial pain,' and what does it mean to monetize 'concentration camp survivor syndrome' Susan Slyomovics explores this and other compensation programs, both those past and those that might exist in the future, through the lens of anthropological and human rights discourse. How to account for variation in German reparations and French restitution directed solely at Algerian Jewry for Vichy-era losses Do crimes of colonialism merit reparations How might reparations models apply to the modern-day conflict in Israel and Palestine The author points to the examples of her grandmother and mother, Czechoslovakian Jews who survived the Auschwitz, Plaszow, and Markkleeberg camps together but disagreed about applying for the post-World War II Wiedergutmachung ('to make good again') reparation programs. Slyomovics maintains that we can use the legacies of German reparations to reconsider approaches to reparations in the future, and the result is an investigation of practical implications, complicated by the difficult legal, ethnographic, and personal questions that reparations inevitably prompt. …