Blackness as a Universal Claim

Partridge, Damani J.

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“…I have hope to show that by opening our analysis beyond the fixing function of regimentation, we can examine institutions in relationship to political and social change projects. Some form of institutionality seems necessary to rehearse, experiment with and sustain better futures (Partridge, 2023: 142). A human rights system is an ideal site for exploring how institutionally authorized registers become a means for coalition‐based politics.…”

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Justice suspended: Rethinking institutions, regimentation, and channels from a human rights law perspective

Greenberg

2024

J Linguistic Anthropol

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This article analyzes institutions as sites for political and social change by looking beyond regimentation and fixedness as the central discursive features of institutionalization. Drawing on research at the European Court of Human Rights—one of the world's most extensive human rights courts—I analyze how human rights actors redeploy normative institutional logics through creative approaches to institutional categories. I argue that lawyers and advocates working within the Court and Convention system naturalize and fix boundaries of law and politics and use that distinction to activate an excess of potential meanings and intertextual connections in legal judgments. This involves using institutional affordances to keep cases open and structure collaborative waiting. These strategies allow people to mutually inhabit open‐ended relationships to texts in intentional ways. In so doing, lawyers and activists defer resolving legal judgments—until new coalitions take political power, there are generational shifts in attitudes or shifts in geopolitical power arrangements that render state actors subject to diplomatic pressure. Analyzing how people improvise, learn, and teach others to manage institutional channels and excess opens up the black box of institutionality as a site for social transformation.

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Justice suspended: Rethinking institutions, regimentation, and channels from a human rights law perspective

Greenberg

2024

J Linguistic Anthropol

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“…10 Questions about access to Germany's culture of remembrance are thus no longer primarily discussed among educators but are taken up by a broad spectrum of civil society actors and politicians and linked to discourses about democratic participation and security. In this context, the U.S.-American anthropologist Damani Partridge (2010Partridge ( , 2022, who conducted a multi-year ethnographic study of educational programs on the Holocaust that were primarily aimed at Berlin youth with a so-called migration background, found that the programs he observed (including a memorial trip to Auschwitz) ultimately aimed to make the participating youth "less irritating residents within the nation-state" rather than "more equal members" of Germany's post-migrant society (Partridge, 2010: 848).…”

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Why collective memory can never be pluriversal: A case for contradiction and abolitionist thinking in memory studies

Antweiler

2023

Memory Studies

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Bringing together memory studies with the emerging field of contradiction studies, in this article, I suggest the need for an alternative way of thinking about collective memory by juxtaposing the ideal of wholeness that necessarily underlies any group’s identity with that of the inevitable contradiction of the plurivers. I discuss the power of the Western narrative order in regard to the Haitian Revolution and examples of mnemonic disharmony in contemporary Germany and seek to illuminate the epistemic violence constitutive of this narrative order. The article therefore interrogates memory study’s epistemological foundation and the practices in which these underpinnings result. The aim is to highlight the potential of contradiction in an attempt to pluriversify responses to the past as well as future visions for the worlds we live in. Special attention is paid to the question of what it is we hope for when attempting to (scholarly) contribute to making collective memory more inclusive, and where the limitations of this might lie. The purpose of my contribution, then, is to explore the tacit imperative of harmony that often remains unchallenged in memory studies, and to propose a shift in focus, from the ways in which memory might help us understand (e.g., current clashes of identities), toward a research agenda that is considerate of its own entanglements with power, yet, at the same time, lives up to its potential to contribute to transformation.

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Blackness as a Universal Claim

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Justice suspended: Rethinking institutions, regimentation, and channels from a human rights law perspective

Justice suspended: Rethinking institutions, regimentation, and channels from a human rights law perspective

Why collective memory can never be pluriversal: A case for contradiction and abolitionist thinking in memory studies

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