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Discursive Framings of Human Rights

By Jonas Ross Kjaergard

Discursive Framings of Human Rights

By Jonas Ross Kjaergard

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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. 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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
300
Release Date:
2018-02-05
Publication Date:
2018-02-05
Publisher:
Routledge
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1138481912
ISBN13:
9781138481916
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
459 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
16 cm
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