Discursive framings of human rights : negotiating agency and victimhood /
Discursive framings of human rights : negotiating agency and victimhood /
Edited by Karen-Margrethe Simonsen and Jonas Ross Kjærgård.
- Oxon, Birkbeck Law Press, 2017.
- xx, 277 pages : illustrations ;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : human rights for Martians / Costas Douzinas -- Introduction / Jonas Ross Kjærgård and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen -- On the use and abuse of history in philosophy of human rights / Lena Halldenius -- The political agency of victims in atrocity tales by Bartolomé de las Casas : the Spanish origin of human rights / Karen-Margrethe Simonsen -- The inequality of common utility : active/passive citizenship in French revolutionary human rights / Jonas Ross Kjærgård -- The right to resist in the 1793 Declaration of Rights / Nicolai von Eggers -- From utopia to dystopia? : Bukharin and the Soviet Constitution of 1936 / Elisa Kriza -- From passive victimhood to committed citizenship : storytelling by victims of the 'years of lead' in Italy : in search of justice and truth in spite of the state / Marie Andreasen and Leonardo Cecchini -- Exemplary victims and opaque agents : remembering Algeria's Black Decade / Madeleine Dobie -- On Gothic romance and the happy ending : legislating the human rights of transnational migrant workers and their families / Gale Coskan-Johnson -- Willful targets of rights / Hanna Musiol -- Drawing the line : zombies and citizens in Heinrich von Kleist's 'The earthquake in Chile' / Isak Winkel Holm -- Recording 'The look of silence' / Alexandra Schultheis Moore -- The problem of empathy : reading the Wilkomirski Affair in the light of the history of literature / Ingvild Hagen Kjørholt -- The predicament of spectatorship : Renzo Martens and the humanitarian image / Devika Sharma --Agency from beyond the grave : a case study of the documentary and dramatic aspects of Rabih Mroué's 'Pixelated revolution' / Peter Ole Pedersen -- Victimhood, voice, and power in digital media / Lilie Chouliaraki.
9781138944503 (hbk)
Human rights.
Victims of crimes
323 / SIM.D
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prologue : human rights for Martians / Costas Douzinas -- Introduction / Jonas Ross Kjærgård and Karen-Margrethe Simonsen -- On the use and abuse of history in philosophy of human rights / Lena Halldenius -- The political agency of victims in atrocity tales by Bartolomé de las Casas : the Spanish origin of human rights / Karen-Margrethe Simonsen -- The inequality of common utility : active/passive citizenship in French revolutionary human rights / Jonas Ross Kjærgård -- The right to resist in the 1793 Declaration of Rights / Nicolai von Eggers -- From utopia to dystopia? : Bukharin and the Soviet Constitution of 1936 / Elisa Kriza -- From passive victimhood to committed citizenship : storytelling by victims of the 'years of lead' in Italy : in search of justice and truth in spite of the state / Marie Andreasen and Leonardo Cecchini -- Exemplary victims and opaque agents : remembering Algeria's Black Decade / Madeleine Dobie -- On Gothic romance and the happy ending : legislating the human rights of transnational migrant workers and their families / Gale Coskan-Johnson -- Willful targets of rights / Hanna Musiol -- Drawing the line : zombies and citizens in Heinrich von Kleist's 'The earthquake in Chile' / Isak Winkel Holm -- Recording 'The look of silence' / Alexandra Schultheis Moore -- The problem of empathy : reading the Wilkomirski Affair in the light of the history of literature / Ingvild Hagen Kjørholt -- The predicament of spectatorship : Renzo Martens and the humanitarian image / Devika Sharma --Agency from beyond the grave : a case study of the documentary and dramatic aspects of Rabih Mroué's 'Pixelated revolution' / Peter Ole Pedersen -- Victimhood, voice, and power in digital media / Lilie Chouliaraki.
9781138944503 (hbk)
Human rights.
Victims of crimes
323 / SIM.D