ISBN:
9781032486666
,
9781032486673
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 162 Seiten
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cloud, Doug Arguing identity and human rights
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Group identity
;
Human rights
;
Soziale Identität
;
Gruppenidentität
;
Menschenrecht
Abstract:
"Arguing Identity and Human Rights poses open questions about how to best argue for human rights and consider rival answers, to help us think through the advantages and trade-offs of different rhetorical strategies, identify options, and, ultimately, choose our own paths. Modelling a humane approach to human rights argument, the book offers four deep rhetorical analyses of some of the most vexing and fascinating challenges facing human rights arguers in the United States: - How do we want to frame difference in human rights advocacy-are we trying to downplay difference or something else? - How can we best answer dismissive responses to human rights arguments? - Should we portray people in marginalized categories as having "no choice" about their identity, and what would alternatives look like? - What are the possibilities and perils of trying to "afflict" audiences with hegemonic identities to persuade them on human rights issues? Offering clear practical and theoretical implications while resisting easy answers, the book provides a concise introduction to the relationship between identity, discourse, and social change. Designed for both theorists and practitioners, for current and aspiring human rights arguers, this insightful text will be of use to students of rhetoric, argumentation, persuasion, and communication studies more generally, as well as human rights, social activism and social change, political science, sociology, race and gender studies"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction -- Identity, discourse, & social change -- The difference dilemma -- The agency crossroads -- the cliché challenge -- The affliction gambit -- A rival for contempt.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.4324/9781003390169
