How can Speaking Rights to Power construct political will to respond to human rights abuse worldwide? Examining dozens of cases of human rights campaigns and using an innovative analysis of the politics of persuasion, this book shows how communication politics build recognition, solidarity, and social change. Building on twenty years of research on five continents, this comprehensive study ranges from Aung San Suu Kyi to Anna Hazare, from Congo to Colombia, and from the Arab Spring to Pussy Riot. Speaking Rights to Power addresses cutting edge debates on human rights and the ethic of care, cosmopolitanism, charismatic leadership, communicative action and political theater, and the role of social media. It draws on constructivist literature from social movement and international relations theory, and analyzes human rights as a form of global social imagination. Combining a normative contribution with judicious critique, this book shows how human rights rhetoric matters-and how to make it matter more.
PREFACE INTRODUCTION: Rhetoric For Rights 1) SPEAKING RIGHTS a. Why We Care: Constructing solidarity b. The message: Human rights as global social imagination c. Hearts and Minds: The politics of persuasion
2) HISTORICAL REPERTOIRES: ATTENTION MUST BE PAID a. Solidarity: The Dreyfus Affair b. Internationalism: The Spanish Civil War c. Symbolism: The Holocaust d. Globalization: Revolution 2.0
3) VOICES: HEROES, MARTYRS, WITNESSES, AND EXPERTS a. Heroes and martyrs i. Nelson Mandela ii. Aung San Suu Kyi iii. Mothers of the Disappeared b. Witnesses and experts i. Doctors Without Borders ii. Amartya Sen iii. Paul Farmer c. The dog that didn't bark : Death penalty campaigns in the U.S.
4) THE MESSAGE MATTERS: FRAMING THE CLAIM a. Poster children and sex slavery: framing human trafficking b. Reframing FGM: Our bodies, our selves c. Human rights in Colombia: when frames faill#£
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