The Material Culture of Human Rights. Consumer Products, Boycotts and the Transformation of Human Rights Activism in the 1970s and 1980s
The Material Culture of Human Rights. Consumer Products, Boycotts and the Transformation of Human Rights Activism in the 1970s and 1980s
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人权的物质文化。
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2018
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Benjamin Möckel
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Benjamin Möckel
在1960年代和1970年代，人权非政府组织开始利用抵制和其他消费者抗议来吸引人们对他们的运动的关注。特别是反种族隔离运动，利用消费品和消费空间开展反对南非政权的运动。这些运动侧重于日常消费行为，有助于将人权话语从国际法和政治领域转化为民间社会和日常生活领域。因此，人权行动主义和消费文化的纠缠可以被视为1970年代人权话语所谓“突破”的一个重要方面，但迄今为止大多被忽视。本文从物质文化研究的角度来看待这一发展。它认为，日常用品在人权运动中发挥了重要作用，特别是在1970年代和1980年代人权的媒介化和普及化的背景下。本文以反隔离运动为个案进行研究。通过观察抵制运动以及该运动在20世纪80年代末开始生产的消费品，它显示了物质对象和社会实践如何在这些运动中密不可分地交织在一起。
During the 1960s and 1970s, human rights NGOs began to use boycotts and other consumer protests to draw attention to their campaigns. The Anti-Apartheid Movement in particular, used consumer products and spaces of consumption for their campaigns against the South African regime. By focussing on the everyday practice of consumption, these campaigns helped to translate human rights discourse from the sphere of international law and politics into the sphere of civil society and everyday life. The entanglement of human rights activism and consumer culture can thus be seen as an important – but so far mostly overlooked – aspect of the so-called “breakthrough” of human rights discourse in the 1970s. The article looks at this development from a material culture studies approach. It argues that everyday objects played an important role in human rights campaigns, particularly in the context of a mediatization and popularization of human rights in the 1970s and 1980s. The article takes the Anti-Apartheid Movement as a case study. By looking at the boycott campaigns as well as the consumer items the movement began to produce itself in the late 1980s, it shows how material objects and social practices became inextricably intertwined in these campaigns.