Rights as Weapons
| Autor: | Bob, Clifford |
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| EAN: | 9780691216881 |
| Sachgruppe: | Medien, Kommunikation |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 280 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 04.05.2021 |
| Untertitel: | Instruments of Conflict, Tools of Power |
| Schlagworte: | Politics / Current Events |
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Bob looks at how political forces use rights as rallying cries: naturalizing novel claims as rights inherent in humanity, absolutizing them as trumps over rival interests or community concerns, universalizing them as transcultural and transhistorical, and depoliticizing them as concepts beyond debate. He shows how powerful proponents employ rights as camouflage to cover ulterior motives, as crowbars to break rival coalitions, as blockades to suppress subordinate groups, as spears to puncture discrete policies, and as dynamite to explode whole societies. And he demonstrates how the targets of rights campaigns repulse such assaults, using their own rights-like weapons: denying the abuses they are accused of, constructing rival rights to protect themselves, portraying themselves as victims rather than violators, and repudiating authoritative decisions against them.
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