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Human Rights and Narrated Lives - The Ethics of Recognition (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
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Human Rights and Narrated Lives - The Ethics of Recognition (Hardcover, 2004 ed.)
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Personal narratives have become one of the most potent vehicles for
advancing human rights claims across the world. These two
contemporary domains, personal narrative and human rights,
literature and international politics, are commonly understood to
operate on separate planes. This study however, examines the ways
these intersecting realms unfold and are enfolded in one another in
ways both productive of and problematic for the achievement of
social justice. Human Rights and Narrated Lives explores what
happens when autobiographical narratives are produced, received,
and circulated in the field of human rights. It asks how personal
narratives emerge in local settings; how international rights
discourse enables and constrains individual and collective
subjectivities in narration; how personal narratives circulate and
take on new meanings in new contexts; and how and under what
conditions they feed into, affect, and are affected by the
reorganizations of politics in the post cold war, postcolonial,
globalizing human rights contexts. To explore these intersections,
the authors attend the production, circulation, reception, and
affective currents of stories in action across local, national,
transnational, and global arenas. They do so by looking at five
case studies: in the context of the Truth and Reconciliation
processes in South Africa; the National Inquiry into the Forced
Removal of Indigenous Children from their Families in Australia;
activism on behalf of former 'comfort women' from South/East Asia;
U.S. prison activism; and democratic reforms in the aftermath of
the Tiananmen Square Massacre in China.
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