Episode 11: Postwar Displacement and Human Rights Development, Guest: G. Daniel Cohen
Episode 11: Postwar Displacement and Human Rights Development, Guest: G. Daniel Cohen
In episode 11, Franziska Lamp-Miechowiecki talks to historian G. Daniel Cohen about the role of the management of post-war displacement for the development of Western humanitarianism. The episode focuses on the ideas behind the contested term 'human rights revolution', which describes the development of new mechanisms for dealing with flight, expulsion and displacement in the immediate post-WWII period. Cohen also provides a comprehensive analysis of the reasons why historiography largely ignored the history of Displaced Persons (DPs) until the 1990s.
Redaktion: Franziska Lamp-Miechowiecki
Produktion: Magdalena Ragl & Franziska Maria Lamp
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File size: 31 MB
Gerard Daniel Cohen is a historian and Samuel W. & Goldye Marian Spain Associate Professor at the Department of History at Rice University in Houston, Texas. Prior to this, he completed his Ph.D. at New York University in New York City. His research and extensive publications are dedicated to the fields of modern European and French history, human rights, international law and migration studies. In 2011, he published his monograph "In War's Wake: Europe's Displaced Persons in the Postwar Order," with Oxford University Press. During the spring term 2024 he held the Sir Peter Ustinov Guest-Professorship at the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna.