Discursive Framings of Human Rights: Negotiating Agency and Victimhood

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Synopsis
What does it mean to be a subject of human rights? The status of the subject is closely connected with the form and rhetoric of the framing discourse, and this book investigates the relationship between the status of the subject and the form of human rights discourse, in differing aesthetic and social contexts. Historical as well as contemporary declarations of rights have stressed both the protective and political aspects of human rights. But in concrete situations and conflictual moments, the high moral legitimacy of human rights rhetoric has often clouded the actual character of specific interventions, and so made it difficult to differentiate between the objects of humanitarian intervention and the subjects of politics. Critically re-examining this opposition – between victims and agents of human rights – through a focus on the ways in which discourses of rights are formed and circulated within and between political societies, this book elicits the fluidity of their relationship, and with it the shifting relation between human rights and humanitarianism. Analysing the symbolic framings of testimonies, disaster stories, atrocity tales, political speeches, and philosophical arguments, it thus establishes a relationship between these different genres and the political, economic, and legal dimensions of human rights discourse.
Copyright:
2016

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
277 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317371403
Related ISBNs:
9781138944503, 9781138481916, 9781315671857
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Karen-Margrethe Simonsen, Jonas Ross Kjaergard
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Communication
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Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Karen-Margrethe Simonsen
Edited by:
Jonas Ross Kjaergard

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