Arguing Identity and Human Rights

Among Rival Options
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-032-48666-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 172 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 432 g

Arguing Identity and Human Rights poses open questions about how to best argue for human rights, to help us think through the advantages and trade-offs of different rhetorical strategies, identify rival options, and, ultimately, choose our own paths.

Modeling a humane approach to human rights argument, this 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, and race and gender studies.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Undergraduate, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cloud, Doug

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Discourse, Identity and Social Change 3. The Difference Dilemma 4. The Agency Crossroads 5. The Cliché Challenge 6. The Affliction Gambit 7. A Rival for Contempt

Über Autor(innen)

Doug Cloud is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Colorado State University, USA