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100 1 _aHesford, Wendy S.
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245 1 0 _aViolent Exceptions : Children’s Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics
260 _bThe Ohio State University Press
_c2021
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520 _aViolent 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.
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650 7 _aHuman rights
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650 7 _aSemantics, discourse analysis, etc
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650 7 _aAge groups: children
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653 _aPolitical Science
653 _aHuman Rights
653 _aLanguage Arts & Disciplines
653 _aRhetoric
653 _aSocial Science
653 _aChildren's Studies
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