Deliberative Acts

Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights

AvArabella Lyon

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

The twenty-first century is characterized by the global circulation of cultures, norms, representations, discourses, and human rights claims; the arising conflicts require innovative understandings of decision making. Deliberative Acts develops a new, cogent theory of performative deliberation. Rather than conceiving deliberation within the familiar frameworks of persuasion, identification, or procedural democracy, it privileges speech acts and bodily enactments that constitute deliberation itself, reorienting deliberative theory toward the initiating moment of recognition, a moment in which interlocutors are positioned in relationship to each other and so may begin to construct a new lifeworld. By approaching human rights not as norms or laws, but as deliberative acts, Lyon conceives rights as relationships among people and as ongoing political and historical projects developing communal norms through global and cross-cultural interactions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-05-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:340 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation
Antal sidor:232
Förlag:Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN:9780271059754
Utmärkelser:Winner of Rhetoric Society of America Book Award 2014

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Arabella Lyon is Associate Professor of English at the University at Buffalo. Her 1998 book Intentions: Negotiated, Contested, and Ignored (Penn State) won the W. Ross Winterowd Award from the Association of Teachers of Advanced Composition.

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“Deliberative Acts provides a trenchant critique of the theoretical premises of persuasion, argumentation, and identification dominating Western rhetoric. Arabella Lyon delivers a versatile theory of deliberation as a formative act wherein differences are generative and constitutive of relational agency. Lyon focuses on paradigmatic human rights struggles to reveal the limits of liberal models of democracy and their diminishment of interpretive differences. Her astute analysis of human rights as relationships shows deliberation’s ability to transform our understanding of cross-cultural rights practices. This book is relevant for all interested in how globalization continues to shift our understanding of rights and of deliberation itself.”—Wendy S. Hesford, author of Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Deliberation in the Global Era1Defining Deliberative Space: Rethinking Persuasion, Position, and Identification2Performative Deliberation and the Narratable Who3Narrating Rights, Creating Agents: Missing Women in the U.S. Media4The Beauty of Arendt’s Lies: Menchú’s Political Strategy 5Voting like a Girl: Declarations, Paradoxes of Deliberation, and Embodied Citizens as a Difference in Kind NotesWorks CitedIndex