Arguing Identity and Human Rights av Doug Cloud

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Arguing Identity and Human Rights poses open questions about how to best argue for human rights and consider rival answers, to help us think through the advantages and trade-offs of different rhetorical strategies, identify options, and, ultimately, choose our own paths.Modelling a humane approach to human rights argument, the book offers four deep rhetorical analyses of some of the most vexing and fascinating challenges facing human rights arguers in the United States: -How do we want to frame difference in human rights advocacy¿are we trying to downplay difference or something else? -How can we best answer dismissive responses to human rights arguments? -Should we portray people in marginalized categories as having ¿no choice¿ about their identity, and what would alternatives look like? -What are the possibilities and perils of trying to ¿afflict¿ audiences with hegemonic identities to persuade them on human rights issues? Offering clear practical and theoretical implications while r