CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Minin, Julia Katherina |
|---|---|
| Title | Motherhood, Public Memory and Human Rights Advocacy: A Comparative Analysis of the Committee of Soldiers??? Mothers of Russia and the Madres de Plaza de Mayo |
| Summary | In this thesis, I will explore the connections between two civil society organizations that have advocated for human rights in their countries since the late 20th century. The committee of Soldiers’ Mothers of Russia and the Madres de Plaza de Mayo in Argentina have several key areas of overlap; engagement with public memory, providing venues for coping with individual and communal trauma and the gendered identity of motherhood. I will explore the ways in which these groups organically formed around experiences of loss and how each developed into official civil society organizations in their own countries. In exploring the question of why shared grief and the identity of motherhood contributed in both cases to the blossoming of radical and highly influential human rights advocacy, I will show that there are broad lessons to be learned from comparing both groups’ activities. |
| Supervisor | Oswaldo Ruiz-Chiriboga |
| Department | Legal Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/minin_julia.pdf |
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