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Making Rights Claims

A Practice of Democratic Citizenship

Autor: Karen Zivi

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Vazba: Pevná

Vydavatel: Oxford University Press Inc

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

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While the 1960s marked a rights revolution in the United States, the subsequent decades have witness...

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Autor

Karen Zivi

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Pevná

Vydáno

2012

Stránek

176

EAN

9780199826414

ISBN

0199826412

Enbook ID

04536162

Vydavatel

Oxford University Press Inc

Hmotnost

410

Rozměry

161 x 243 x 15

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While the 1960s marked a rights revolution in the United States, the subsequent decades have witnessed a rights revolution around the globe, a revolution that for many is a sign of the advancement of democracy. But is the act of rights claiming a form of political contestation that advances democracy? Rights language is ubiquitous in national and international politics today, yet nagging suspicions remain about the compatibility between the practice of rights claiming and democratic politics. While critics argue that rights reinforce ways of thinking and being that undermine democratic values and participatory practices, even champions worry that rights lack the legitimacy and universality necessary to bring democratic aspirations to fruition. Making Rights Claims provides a unique entree into these important and timely debates. Rather than simply taking a side for or against rights claiming, the book argues that understanding and assessing the relationship between rights and democracy requires a new approach to the study of rights. Zivi combines insights from speech act theory with recent developments in democratic and feminist thought to develop a theory of the performativity of rights claiming. If we understand rights claims as performative utterances and acts of persuasion, we come to see that by saying "I have a right," we constitute and reconstitute ourselves as democratic citizens, shape our communities, and transform constraining categories of identity in ways that may simultaneously advance and challenge aspects of democracy. Furthermore, we begin to understand that rights claiming is not a wholly rule bound practice. To illustrate her theory, Zivi discusses different sides of two recent rights debates: mandatory HIV testing of pregnant women and the new immigration laws.

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