Discursive Framings of Human Rights: Negotiating Agency and Victimhood - Brossura

Ross Kjaergard, Jonas

 
9781138481916: Discursive Framings of Human Rights: Negotiating Agency and Victimhood
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ISBN 10: 1138481912 ISBN 13: 9781138481916
Casa editrice: Routledge, 2018

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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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Karen-Margrethe Simonsen and Jonas Ross Kjærgård are both based in the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark.

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Editore
Routledge
Data di pubblicazione
2018
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1138481912
ISBN 13 
9781138481916
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
298
Redattore
Simonsen Karen-Margrethe
Contatto del produttore
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Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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9781138944503: Discursive Framings of Human Rights: Negotiating Agency and Victimhood

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ISBN 10:  1138944505 ISBN 13:  9781138944503
Casa editrice: Birkbeck Law Press, 2016
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