TY  - GEN
AU  - Hesford,Wendy S.
TI  - Violent Exceptions : Children’s Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics
SN  - /doi.org/10.26818/9780814214688
PY  - 2021///
PB  - The Ohio State University Press
KW  - Human rights
KW  - bicssc
KW  - Semantics, discourse analysis, etc
KW  - Age groups: children
KW  - Political Science
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - Language Arts & Disciplines
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - Social Science
KW  - Children's Studies
N1  - Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48541/1/external_content.pdf
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/48541/1/external_content.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69613
ER  -