The Social Work of Narrative

Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary

This book addresses the ways in which a range of representational forms have influenced and helped implement the project of human rights across the world.

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This book addresses the ways in which a range of representational forms have influenced and helped implement the project of human rights across the world, and seeks to show how public discourses on law and politics grow out of and are influenced by the imaginative representations of human rights. It draws on a multi-disciplinary approach, using historical, literary, anthropological, visual arts, and media studies methods and readings, and covers a wider range of geographic areas than has previously been attempted. A series of specifically-commissioned essays by leading scholars in the field and by emerging young academics show how a multidisciplinary approach can illuminate this central concern.

Gareth Griffiths
Philip Mead
Joseph R. Slaughter
Chantal Zabus
Mike Hill
Kieran Dolin
David Trigger
Richard Martin
Nicholas Jose
Asha Varadharajan
Gillian Whitlock
Russell West-Pavlov
Ned Curthoys
Golnar Nabizadeh
Helen Gilbert
Ethan Blue
Jane Lydon
Sukhmani Khorana
Michael R. Griffiths

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herausgegeben von	Gareth Griffiths, Philip Mead
Beiträge von	Gareth Griffiths, Philip Mead, Joseph R. Slaughter, Chantal Zabus, Mike Hill, Kieran Dolin, David Trigger, Richard Martin, Nicholas Jose, Asha Varadharajan, Gillian Whitlock, Russell West-Pavlov, Ned Curthoys, Golnar Nabizadeh, Helen Gilbert, Ethan Blue, Jane Lydon, Sukhmani Khorana, Michael R. Griffiths
Vorwort von	Philip Mead
Seitenzahl	408
E-Book-Format	PDF
Sprache	Englisch
Typ	E-Book
E-Book DRM	Digital Rights Management - Wasserzeichen
Erscheinungsdatum	22.03.2018
ISBN	978-3-8382-6858-3
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This finger-on-the-pulse collection dramatically expands debates on human rights, law, and literature. Recognizing the paradox of human rights as universal but exclusionary, these elegant essays cover an impressive range of media genres, showing how narrative form shapes claims-for-rights, not the other way around. Addressing pressing issues like new technologies of war, indigenous struggles, the refugee crisis, and much more, this interdisciplinary volume needs to be on the bookshelf of anyone interested in human rights. Isabel Hofmeyr Global Distinguished Professor, NYU Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand