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Speaking rights to power : constructing political will /
Through dozens of cases, this book shows how communication politics build recognition, solidarity, and social change. The text presents an innovative analysis of human rights rhetoric strategic use of voice, framing, media, performance, and audience.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Rhetoric For Rights.
- Speaking rights. Why We Care: Constructing solidarity ; The message: Human rights as global social imagination ; Hearts and Minds: The politics of persuasion.
- Historical repertoires: Attention must be paid. Solidarity: The Dreyfus Affair ; Internationalism: The Spanish Civil War ; Symbolism: The Holocaust ; Globalization: Revolution 2.0.
- Voices: heroes, martyrs, witnesses, and experts. Heroes and martyrs ; Witnesses and experts.
- The message matters: framing the claim. Poster children and sex slavery: framing human trafficking ; Reframing FGM ; Human rights in Colombia: when frames fail ; The rhetoric of recognition: Darfur vs. Congo.
- Plotting rights: The power of performance. From tragedy to testimonial ; Allegory as protest performance: Indian Summer ; The Power of Parody.
- Mobilizing media: Is there an app for that?. Iran: The revolution will not be televised ; China: The Long March to human rights ; The Arab Spring: The Face book path to freedom ; Kony 2012: When buzz is not enough.
- Audiences: Constructing cosmopolitans. Building communities of conscience: Scholars at Risk ; Inter-ethnic solidarity ; Across the great divide: Men who care about violence against women.
- Constructing political will. Another world is possible ; The power of persuasion: The Liberian civil war ; Acting globally.