Violent Exceptions : Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics / Wendy S. Hesford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hesford, Wendy S., author.

Series:

New Directions in Rhetoric and Materiality

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Place of Publication:

The Ohio State University Press 2021

[s.l.] : The Ohio State University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Violent Exceptions turns to the humanitarian figure of the child-in-peril in twenty-first-century political discourse to better understand how this figure is appropriated by political constituencies for purposes rarely to do with the needs of children at risk. Wendy S. Hesford shows how the figure of the child-in-peril is predicated on racial division, which, she argues, is central to both conservative and liberal logics, especially at times of crisis when politicians leverage humanitarian storytelling as a political weapon. Through iconic images and stories of child migrants, child refugees, undocumented children, child soldiers, and children who are victims of war, terrorism, and state violence, Violent Exceptions illustrates how humanitarian rhetoric turns public attention away from systemic violations against children's human rights and reframes this violence as exceptional-erasing more gradual forms of violence and minimizing human rights potential to counteract these violations and the precarious conditions from which they arise.

Notes:

CC BY-NC-ND

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780814281178

0814281176

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814214688

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access