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From Pariah to Priority
How LGBTI Rights Became a Pillar of American and Swedish Foreign Policy
Inbunden, Engelska, 2021
1 456 kr
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Incorporates a unique diplomatic, insider perspective to explain the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into American and Swedish foreign policies.From Pariah to Priority gives a unique, insider perspective that explains the unexpected incorporation of LGBTI rights into the United States and Swedish foreign policies. From original data, case study analysis, and interviews with high-level officials within the State Department, Swedish Foreign Ministry and international institutions, former diplomat Elise Carlson Rainer provides insights from leaders responsible for shaping emerging global LGBTI policies. The research findings highlight the advocacy process of reforming US and Swedish foreign policy priorities to include LGBTI rights, shedding light on how normative values evolve in foreign affairs. The book examines Sweden as the first country to implement a feminist foreign policy and commence formal LGBTI diplomacy. Through this lens, Rainer contextualizes the diplomatic precedent of revamping foreign assistance to Uganda when lawmakers there proposed a death penalty law for homosexuality. Scrutinizing effective tactics for advocacy to influence foreign policy, From Pariah to Priority explores not only current debates in the area of gender and sexuality in foreign affairs, but also offers pragmatic policy recommendations for civil society organizations, foreign policy leaders, and human rights practitioners.
1 456 kr
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Analyzes the effects of new technologies on human rights, with a particular focus on how representations of technology affect our ability to understand and control it.The speed of technological development, from cell phones to artificial intelligence, opens up exciting new opportunities for promoting human flourishing. It also raises grave risks, threatening not only personal privacy and dignity but also our collective survival. Technologies of Human Rights Representation brings together three fields of research critical to securing our future: changing technologies, human rights, and representation. For each of these fields, this book asks key questions: How can we open the black box of technological advances so that we can more fully understand their effects upon our lives? What can we do to make sure that these effects align with the values of human rights? And how does the way we talk about technology and rights-from military reports and corporate marketing to human rights reports and poetry-amplify or diminish our capacity both to understand and to control what happens next? Contributors from anthropology, communications, criminology, global studies, law, literary and cultural studies, and women and gender studies bring diverse methodological approaches to these crucial questions.
566 kr
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Analyzes the effects of new technologies on human rights, with a particular focus on how representations of technology affect our ability to understand and control it.The speed of technological development, from cell phones to artificial intelligence, opens up exciting new opportunities for promoting human flourishing. It also raises grave risks, threatening not only personal privacy and dignity but also our collective survival. Technologies of Human Rights Representation brings together three fields of research critical to securing our future: changing technologies, human rights, and representation. For each of these fields, this book asks key questions: How can we open the black box of technological advances so that we can more fully understand their effects upon our lives? What can we do to make sure that these effects align with the values of human rights? And how does the way we talk about technology and rights-from military reports and corporate marketing to human rights reports and poetry-amplify or diminish our capacity both to understand and to control what happens next? Contributors from anthropology, communications, criminology, global studies, law, literary and cultural studies, and women and gender studies bring diverse methodological approaches to these crucial questions.
From a Whisper to a Movement
Investigating the Shared Rhetorical Spaces of Whistleblowing and Social Protest
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 193 kr
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Through substantive case studies on issues of human rights, this collection of rhetorical investigations engages the interactions among whistleblowers, public protest, and relationships of power.While whistleblowers are commonly viewed as disempowered members of institutions who expose acts of wrongdoing, From a Whisper to a Movement argues that whistleblowing acts can occur from an assemblage of persons and places not typically associated with the term. This theoretical foundation affords us the ability to substantively interrogate the rhetorical linkage between solitary whistleblowing acts, scaffolded around a sense of democratic ethics, and the rhetoric of the consequent publics that demand corrective action. As mass social protests often emerge from singular moments of discovery, the connected discourses expose a unique site within the public forum rich with rhetorical significance. While not all whistleblowing utterances prompt public protests, and only some protests coalesce around the disclosure of wrongdoing, recent history demonstrates that exposed abuses of power often prompt collective action in the name of human rights. This volume interrogates how disempowered actors, often working alone, can inform democratic discourse and global movements.
From a Whisper to a Movement
Investigating the Shared Rhetorical Spaces of Whistleblowing and Social Protest
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
360 kr
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Through substantive case studies on issues of human rights, this collection of rhetorical investigations engages the interactions among whistleblowers, public protest, and relationships of power.While whistleblowers are commonly viewed as disempowered members of institutions who expose acts of wrongdoing, From a Whisper to a Movement argues that whistleblowing acts can occur from an assemblage of persons and places not typically associated with the term. This theoretical foundation affords us the ability to substantively interrogate the rhetorical linkage between solitary whistleblowing acts, scaffolded around a sense of democratic ethics, and the rhetoric of the consequent publics that demand corrective action. As mass social protests often emerge from singular moments of discovery, the connected discourses expose a unique site within the public forum rich with rhetorical significance. While not all whistleblowing utterances prompt public protests, and only some protests coalesce around the disclosure of wrongdoing, recent history demonstrates that exposed abuses of power often prompt collective action in the name of human rights. This volume interrogates how disempowered actors, often working alone, can inform democratic discourse and global movements.
Voices of Reason
Solidarity Activism and the Separatist Imagination in Israel/Palestine
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 574 kr
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Inspiring and hopeful discussion of how we can live together in a world that is both deeply divided and undeniably shared.In a region divided by violence, walls, fences, and checkpoints, Voices of Reason analyzes critically cross-boundary initiatives that seek to affirm their own reason in the land between the river and the sea. Based on fieldwork with solidarity and human rights activists in southern Israel and its Israeli–Palestinian borderlands, conducted over the span of two decades, author Alexander Koensler traverses competing moral and political orders. While violence and war and dichotomic interpretive lenses dominate the headlines, relatively little is known about everyday life across borders or peace activism in Israeli society. Precisely for this reason it is equally important to understand more complex dynamics, those aspects that remain often overshadowed but bear a potential for change. With his call to disentangle the separatist imagination, Koensler engages the notion of polyphony to offer novel ways to move beyond zero-sum assumptions in conflicts and hardening community boundaries everywhere, giving the reader an uplifting sense of how we can live together in a world that is both deeply divided and yet undeniably shared.
1 660 kr
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Shows how to turn real-word human rights practices into comparable numbers, evaluates the barriers to improvement, and ranks countries of the world.Science and the Study of Human Rights provides a clear, teachable framework for comparing human rights practices across countries and over time and for developing theories about why some governments violate rights more than others. The book explains why the scientific method offers a powerful approach to studying human rights and shows how systematic evidence can improve research, policy analysis, and public understanding. The authors introduce a wide range of publicly available human rights indicators, with particular attention to the CIRIGHTS Data Project, which three of the authors codirect. The book also offers a concise overview of other leading measurement efforts—including Freedom House, V-Dem, the Political Terror Scale (PTS), the Human Rights Measurement Initiative (HRMI), and SNARP—highlighting what each measures, where each excels, and where each has limitations. Designed for scholars, graduate students, governments, and intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, this book will also be valuable to students, journalists, policymakers, and activists. By promoting a comparative perspective and the use of annually updated data, Science and the Study of Human Rights helps readers better understand states' obligations and supports the broader goal envisioned by the drafters of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: improving rights protection through knowledge and accountability.