Victims' stories and the advancement of human rights / Diana Tietjens Meyers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyers, Diana T., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights advocacy.

Victims of crimes--Civil rights.

Victims of crimes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 260 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Victims' Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights' addresses a set of critical topics that victims' stories of human rights abuse raise but that philosophers have thus far neglected: paradigms of victimhood and unjustifiable exclusions from the category of victim; narrative structures as constraints on victims' stories and as vehicles for articulating human rights norms; the role of emotional responses to victims' stories in discerning their normative significance; empathy with victims' stories as a pathway to moral understanding and human rights commitment; and the need for an ethical framework for obtaining victims' stories and for civil society institutions that can disseminate these stories for purposes of advancing human rights.

Contents:

Introduction

Two victim paradigms and the problem of "impure" victims

Narrative structures, narratives of abuse, and human rights

Emotional understanding and victims' stories

Empathy and the meanings of human rights in human lives

The ethics and politics of putting victims' stories to work.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 18, 2016).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-049010-1

OCLC:

938556856