Exercising Human Rights investigates why human rights are not
universally empowering and why this damages people attempting to
exercise rights. It takes a new approach in looking at humans as
the subject of human rights rather than the object and exposes the
gendered and ethnocentric aspects of violence and human
subjectivity in the context of human rights.
Using an innovative visual methodology, Redhead shines a new
critical light on human rights campaigns in practice. She examines
two cases in-depth. First, she shows how Amnesty International
depicts women negatively in their 2004 Stop Violence against Women
Campaign, revealing the political implications of how images deny
women their agency because violence is gendered. She also analyses
the Oka conflict between indigenous people and the Canadian state.
She explains how the Canadian state defined the Mohawk people in
such a way as to deny their human subjectivity. By looking at how
the Mohawk used visual media to communicate their plight beyond
state boundaries, she delves into the disjuncture between state
sovereignty and human rights.
This book is useful for anyone with an interest in human rights
campaigns and in the study of political images."
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