2016Unpublished venueOpen access

Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition

Kay Schaffer, Sidonie Smith

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Personal narratives have become one of the most potent vehicles for advancing human rights claims across the world. This text explores what happens when autobiographical narratives are produced, received and circulated in the field of human rights.

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Personal narratives have become one of the most potent vehicles for advancing human rights claims across the world. This text explores what happens when autobiographical narratives are produced, received and circulated in the field of human rights.

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Personal narratives have become one of the most potent vehicles for advancing human rights claims across the world. This text explores what happens when autobiographical narratives are produced, received and circulated in the field of human rights.

Key concepts: Human rights, Political science, Environmental ethics, Sociology, Engineering ethics, Philosophy, Law, Engineering

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