Discursive Framings of Human Rights - Couverture souple

Ross Kjaergard, Jonas

 
9781138481916: Discursive Framings of Human Rights
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1138481912 ISBN 13 : 9781138481916
Editeur : Routledge, 2018

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1138481912
ISBN 13 
9781138481916
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
298
Éditeur
Simonsen Karen-Margrethe
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
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