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

Ross Kjaergard, Jonas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138481912 ISBN 13: 9781138481916

Verlag: Routledge, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1138481912
• ISBN 13: 9781138481916
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 298
• Herausgeber: Simonsen Karen-Margrethe
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Deutschland