Discursive Framings of Human Rights

Karen-Margrethe Simonsen and Jonas Ross Kjærgård are both based in the School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark.

• Introduction, Jonas Ross Kjærgård & Karen-Margrethe Simonsen Part One: Troublesome Origins: The Genealogies of Human Rights 1. On the Use and Abuse of History in Philosophy of Human Rights, Lena Halldenius 2. The Political Agency of Victims in Atrocity Tales by Bartolomé de las Casas: The Spanish Origin of Human Rights Karen-Margrethe Simonsen 3. The Inequality of Common Utility: Active/Passive Citizenship in French Revolutionary Human Rights, Jonas Ross Kjærgård 4. The Right to Resist in the 1793 Declaration of Rights, Nicolai Von Eggers Part Two: Negotiating Victimhood: The Politics of Contextual Rhetoric 5. From Utopia to Dystopia? Bukharin and the Soviet Constitution of 1936, Elisa Kriza 6. From Passive Victimhood to Committed Citizenship: Story-telling by Victims of the ‘Years of Lead’ in Italy – In Search of Justice and Truth in Spite of the State, Marie Andreasen & Leonardo Cecchini 7. Exemplary Victims and Opaque Agents: Remembering Algeria’s Black Decade, Madeleine Dobie 8. On Gothic Romance and the Happy Ending: Legislating the Human Rights of Transnational Migrant Workers and their Families, Gale Coskan-Johnson 9. Willful Targets of Rights, Hanna Musiol Part Three: Responding to Human Suffering: Affective Space and Aesthetic Response 10. Drawing the Line: Zombies and Citizens in Heinrich von Kleist's ‘The Earthquake in Chile’, Isak Winkel Holm 11. Recoding The Look of Silence, Alexandra Schultheis Moore 12. The Problem of Empathy: Reading the Wilkomirski Affair in the Light of the History of Literature, Ingvild Hagen Kjørholt 13. The Predicament of Spectatorship: Renzo Martens and the Humanitarian Image, Devika Sharma 14. Agency from Beyond the Grave: A Case Study of the Documentary and Dramatic Aspects of Rabih Mroué’s Pixelated Revolution, Peter Ole Pedersen 15. Victimhood, voice and power in digital media, Lilie Chouliaraki

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