Deliberative acts

Deliberative acts: democracy, rhetoric, and rights

by Lyon, Arabella

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This book offers a theory of performative deliberation, arguing that speech acts, performances, and performatives constitute citizens, agency, and events. Through analysis of human rights conflicts, it reveals difference's productivity and necessity as it demonstrates the power of performative theory. -- Provided by publisher.

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  • Full title :Deliberative acts : democracy, rhetoric, and rights / Arabella Lyon.

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This book offers a theory of performative deliberation, arguing that speech acts, performances, and performatives constitute citizens, agency, and events. Through analysis of human rights conflicts, it reveals difference's productivity and necessity as it demonstrates the power of performative theory. -- Provided by publisher.

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  • Publication Date:©2013

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (viii, 222 pages)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780271062228, 0271062223, 9780271062259, 0271062258, 9780271062235, 0271062231, 0271061170, 9780271061177
  • oclc:ocn842262067
  • LC Classification:JC423
  • Dewey Decimal:321.8

Table of Contents

Defining deliberative space : rethinking persuasion, position, and identification -- Performative deliberation and the narratable who -- Narrating rights, creating agents : missing women in the U.S. media -- The beauty of Arendt's lies : Menchú's political strategy -- Voting like a girl : declarations, paradoxes of deliberation, and embodied citizens as a difference in kind.

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Subjects

Deliberative democracy Deliberative Demokratie Démocratie délibérative Droits de l'homme (Droit international) Human rights LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communic… Menschenrecht Performanz Performatif (Philosophie) Performative (Philosophy) POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologi… Politische Kommunikation

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Lyon, Arabella

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