Human rights and the body : hidden in plain sight / Annabelle Mooney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mooney, Annabelle, 1974- author.

Series:

Law, language and communication.

Law, Language and Communication

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Language.

Human rights.

Human body--Law and legislation--Language.

Human body.

Sociological jurisprudence.

Sociolinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Surrey, [England] ; Burlington, Vermont : Ashgate, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study brings research in linguistics and the way in which the body is written upon to bear on discourse on human rights and the body. Drawing on legal concepts and aspects of the law of human rights, the study argues that the proper frames for human rights are firstly the human body, seen as an index reliant on the natural world, secondly the globe and finally, language. These three frames generate rights to food, water, sleep and shelter, environmental protection and a right against dehumanization.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: We Were Promised Jet Packs; 1 Universals and Foundations; Universality of Human Rights; Culture and Human Rights; (Anti) Foundations; The Current System; The Origin of Human Rights; Humane Models; The Human; Conclusion; 2 The Blinded Body; Bodies of Data; The Fields; Breaching, Balancing and the Monster; Particular Human Rights; The Singular Human Right; Frames; Conclusion; 3 The Body; Real Bodies; The Absent Body; Searching for the Soul of the Body; Conclusion; 4 The Body, the Index and the Other; The Body and the World

Before the Zero InstitutionThis is My Body ; The Body as Index; Is and Ought; Bodies in the World: Climate Theory; Homo Sacer; The Other; 5 The Living Body; Water as a Human Right; Plachimada: People and Property; Thirsty Corporations; Money and Sense; The Public Trust; Roman Law; Anticipatory Negligence; Trust and the Political Order; A Coda; 6 The Embodied Mind; The Body and the Mind; Metaphor; Thought, Feeling and Space; What is Universal?; Bad Biology; Step Outside; 7 The Linguistic Body; Natural Semantic Metalanguage; NSM and Human Rights; Dehumanisation; What Makes Us Inhuman?

Root CausesConclusion; Conclusion: Three Rights and Three Frames; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781472422600

1-315-58750-5

1-317-11983-5

1-317-11982-7

1-4724-2260-0

9781315587509

OCLC:

884647611