Human rights in the media: fear and fetish

by Drywood, Eleanor Farrell, Michelle Hughes, Edel

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Title Statements

Full title :Human rights in the media : fear and fetish / edited by Michelle Farrell, Eleanor Drywood and Edel Hughes.

Summary

L'avant page de titre indique : "This collection sets about untangling some of the knotty issues in the underexplored relationship between human rights and the media. We investigate how complex debates in political, judicial, academic and public life on the role and value of human rights are represented in the media, particularly, in print journalism. To focus the discussion, we concentrate on media representation of the controversial proposals in the United Kingdom to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and to replace it with a British Bill of Rights. The collection is underpinned by the observation that views on human rights and on the proposals to repeal and replace are polarised. On the one hand, human rights are presented as threatening and, therefore, utterly denigrated; on the other hand, human rights are idolised, and, therefore, uncritically celebrated. This is the `fear and fetish' in our title. The media plays a decisive role in constructing this polarity through its representation of political and ideological viewpoints. In order to get to grips with the fear, the fetish and this complex interrelationship, the collection tackles key contemporary themes, amongst them: the proposed British Bill of Rights, Brexit, prisoner-voting, the demonisation of immigrants, press freedom, tabloid misreporting, trial by media and Magna Carta. The collection explores media representation, investigates media polarity and critiques the media's role."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2019.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2019.

The Physical Object

Description:1 v. (viii-305 p.) : : couv. illustrations en coul. ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781138645813, 1138645818
oclc:on1131724219
LC Classification:KD4080
Dewey Decimal:070.4/4934241085

Subjects

Cour européenne des droits de l'homme Droits de l'homme -- Dans les médias --… Droits de l'homme (Droit international)… Droits de l'homme (Droit international)… Droits de l'homme (Droit international)… European Court of Human Rights European Union Great Britain Human rights Human rights -- Great Britain Human rights -- Press coverage Human rights -- Press coverage -- Great… Human Rights Act 1998 (Great Britain) Human rights in mass media Press coverage