Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition

by Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith

Book Overview

Personal narratives have become one of the most potent vehicles for advancing human rights claims across the world. Human Rights and Narrated Lives explores what happens when autobiographical narratives are produced, received, and circulated in the field of human rights. It asks how personal narratives emerge in local settings; how international rights discourse enables and constrains individual and collective subjectivities in narration; how personal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1403964955
• ISBN13: 9781403964953
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.3"