Deliberative acts : democracy, rhetoric, and rights / Arabella Lyon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lyon, Arabella, 1951-

Series:

Rhetoric and democratic deliberation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deliberative democracy.

Performative (Philosophy).

Human rights.

Physical Description:

viii, 222 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2013]

Summary:

"Offers a theory of performative deliberation, arguing that speech acts, performances, and performatives constitute citizens, agency, and events. Through analysis of human rights conflicts, it reveals difference's productivity and necessity as it demonstrates the power of performative theory"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Defining deliberative space : rethinking persuasion, position, and identification

Performative deliberation and the narratable who

Narrating rights, creating agents : missing women in the U.S. media

The beauty of Arendt's lies : Menchú's political strategy

Voting like a girl : declarations, paradoxes of deliberation, and embodied citizens as a difference in kind.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-214) and index.

ISBN:

9780271059747

0271059745

OCLC:

826640068