Spectacular rhetorics: human rights visions, recognitions, feminisms

by Hesford, Wendy S.

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Title Statements

Full title :Spectacular rhetorics : human rights visions, recognitions, feminisms / Wendy S. Hesford

Summary

"Spectacular Rhetorics is a rigorous analysis of the rhetorical frameworks and narratives that underlie human rights law, shape the process of cultural and legal recognition, and delimit public responses to violence and injustice. Integrating visual and textual criticism, Wendy S. Hesford scrutinizes 'spectacular rhetoric, ' the use of visual images and rhetoric to construct certain bodies, populations, and nations as victims and incorporate them into human rights discourses geared toward Westerners, chiefly Americans. Hesford presents a series of case studies critiquing the visual representations of human suffering in documentary films, photography, and theater. In each study, she analyzes works addressing a prominent contemporary human rights cause, such as torture and unlawful detention, ethnic genocide and rape as a means of warfare, migration and the trafficking of women and children, the global sex trade, and child labor. Through these studies, she demonstrates how spectacular rhetoric activates certain cultural and national narratives and social and political relations, consolidates identities through the politics of recognition, and configures material relations of power and difference to produce and, ultimately, to govern human rights subjects."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2011

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Duke University Press
Place of Publication:Durham [N.C.]
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780822393818, 0822393816
oclc:ocn753627607
LC Classification:JC571
Dewey Decimal:323

Subjects

Défense des droits de l'homme Droits de l'homme (Droit international) Femmes -- Droits Human rights Human rights advocacy POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom … Social Science / Women's Studies Women's rights