Victims' stories and the advancement of human rights

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meyers, Diana T., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights advocacy--Civil rights.

Human rights advocacy.

Victims of crimes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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