Back to search results

Rhetoric in human rights advocacy

Enlarge text Shrink text
  • Book

<span><span>This book explores the argumentative strategies used in various human rights contexts by those who advance advocacy rhetoric. Twelve case studies focus on the rhetoric of individuals or groups who work for or against human rights, offering insights about effective argumentative strategies used either to advance or obstruct human rights causes. </span></span>

Title Rhetoric in human rights advocacy : a study of exemplars / Richard K. Ghere.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books
Creation Date 2015
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Contents
Preface
1 Introduction
2 Advocacy Rhetoric through Thick and Thin
3 Rhetoric in Moral Crises
4 Rhetoric in Moral Confrontations
5 Rhetoric in Moral Projects
6 Rhetoric in Moral Work
7 Dialectical Human Rights Advocacy
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Extent 1 online resource (283 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2015
National Library system number 997010712393205171
MARC RECORDS
Tags

Have more information? Found a mistake?

More on this subject

Campaigning for Justice : Human Rights Advocacy in Practice / Jo Becker.
Book
Resilience and contagion : invoking human rights in African HIV advocacy / Kristi Heather Kenyon.
Book
#HumanRights : the technologies and politics of justice claims in practice / Ronald Niezen.
Book

This may also interest you

Who Is the Empty Chair at the Passover Seder Intended for?

Who Is the Empty Chair at the Passover Seder Intended for?

While we all sit, as we do every year, at the Seder table, while we sing, ask questions, read the Haggadah and enjoy the holiday meal, hundreds of families among us will not be able to do this. Their holiday spirit, their joy, their loved ones were taken from them.  Their loved ones were kidna

To the article on our blog
Let’s Raise a Glass for Miriam the Prophetess

Let’s Raise a Glass for Miriam the Prophetess

As opposed to the Passover Haggadah, the Jewish Midrash tells us of the significant role played by Miriam the Prophetess in the Exodus from Egypt. Every Passover we are told of the Children of Israel’s journey from slavery to freedom, but it often goes unmentioned that Miriam the Prophetess, sister

To the article on our blog
World War II

World War II

World War II was the most destructive and deadly war in human history. The war officially began when Nazi Germany invaded Poland on September 1, 1939. Although the invasion of Poland is commonly seen as the first act of war, Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria and its occupation of Czechoslovakia i

More on this subject