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Deliberative Acts:

Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights
  • ISBN-13: 9780271059754
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Arabella Lyon
  • Price: AUD $71.99
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  • Local release date: 01/05/2013
  • Format: Paperback 232 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Politics & government [JP]
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Offers a theory of performative deliberation, arguing that speech acts, performances, and performatives constitute citizens, agency, and events. Through analysis of human rights conflicts, it reveals difference’s productivity and necessity as it demonstrates the power of performative theory.


Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Deliberation in the Global Era

1 Defining Deliberative Space: Rethinking Persuasion, Position, and Identification

2 Performative Deliberation and the Narratable Who

3 Narrating Rights, Creating Agents: Missing Women in the U.S. Media

4 The Beauty of Arendt’s Lies: Menchú’s Political Strategy

5 Voting like a Girl: Declarations, Paradoxes of Deliberation, and Embodied Citizens as a Difference in Kind

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Works Cited

Index


“Lyon’s illustrative case studies and vital reconstitution of key rhetorical concepts provide essential critical frameworks for scholars and teachers working at the intersection of rhetoric and human rights studies and, more broadly, those interested in the performance of democracy.”

—Wendy S. Hesford, Southern Anthropological Society

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