Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition

Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition
ISBN-10
1403964955
ISBN-13
9781403964953
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
322
Language
English
Published
2004-08-21
Publisher
Macmillan
Authors
Kay Schaffer, Sidonie Smith

Description

Personal narratives have become one of the most potent vehicles for advancing human rights claims across the world. Human Rights and Narrated Lives explores what happens when autobiographical narratives are produced, received, and circulated in the field of human rights. It asks how personal narratives emerge in local settings; how international rights discourse enables and constrains individual and collective subjectivities in narration; how personal narratives circulate and take on new meanings in new contexts; and how and under what conditions they feed into, affect, and are affected by the reorganization of politics in post-cold war, postcolonial, globalizing human rights contexts.

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