Human rights narrative in the George W. Bush Administrations

Hancock, Jan

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“…See for example, Norris (2005), especially the essays by Norris, Wall and Kalyvas, and Edkins et al (2004). 38 See, e.g., http://www.judiciary.gov.uk/Resources/JCO/Documents/Judgments/condliff-vnorth-staffordshire-primary-care-trust.pdf ( Hancock, 2011). 42 See also the questions that Brown poses to human rights, which helped me give shape to my own (2004: 453).…”

Section: Toward An Anti-humanist Cosmopolitics?mentioning

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Cosmopolitan Exception

McManus¹

2013

Journal of International Political Theory

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There has been a resurgence of interest in cosmopolitanism in contemporary political theory, based upon the hopeful premise that it heralds an ameliorative response to the malignity of sovereignty's lack and the treacherous violence of sovereignty's excess. The promise of cosmopolitanism inheres in the claim that state sovereignty is and should be supplemented by an international system backed by the legitimacy of international law, grounded in the sovereignty of human rights. Drawing upon Foucault and Agamben, my argument in this essay is that the laudable endeavour of liberal cosmopolitans is flawed in two ways: first, cosmopolitanism cannot escape sovereign violence, because it cannot escape sovereignty; and second, cosmopolitans misconstrue the composition of the very sovereignty they aim to escape. This means that cosmopolitan theorists are unable to identify cosmopolitan practices of sovereignty that also entail forms of violence: cosmopolitan exception. Cosmopolitan exception denotes violent sovereign practices that cannot be differentiated from the protection of rights.

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Section: Toward An Anti-humanist Cosmopolitics?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Cosmopolitan Exception

McManus¹

2013

Journal of International Political Theory

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“…Cosmopolitan scholars ‘are providing … a legitimizing discourse in which neo-conservatism can situate itself’ by constructing a humanitarian discourse within the security realm that serves to de-politicize the choice of war (Dexter, 2008: 56; see also Douzinas, 2007: chs 6–7; Žižeck, 2005). The symbiotic relationship between humanitarianism and Western war is contended to be especially evident in its use to legitimize even the means of war (see Hancock, 2010). Humanitarianism is argued to ‘produce’ civilian deaths as ‘accidents’ rather than violations of humanitarian norms (Beier, 2003; Owens, 2003).…”

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Analysing discourse as a causal mechanism

Banta

2012

European Journal of International Relations

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Utilising critical realist philosophy of social science, this article contends that discourse may be studied as a causal mechanism in the generation of events -and one relationally connected to mechanisms of differing kinds. To do this, it is argued that we should adopt critical discourse analysis rather than the guidance of poststructuralist discourse theory. After establishing the key assumptions of poststructuralist discourse theory, some of the substantive analytical tendencies that secrete are discussed and illustrated through a look at the treatment of humanitarian discourse in the International Relations literature on the nature of Western warfare. The article then places discourse within a critical realist view of the social world. I argue that unlike in poststructuralist discourse theory, with critical realism, discourse can be differentiated from the realm of extra-discursive practice, placed in dialectical relation to this wider realm of social relations, and analysed as a possible causal mechanism in the generation of social phenomena, alongside these other mechanisms, as a way to better determine discourse's actual effect on events. critical discourse analysis is introduced as offering an amenable methodological tool-kit for studying discourse as conceptualised in this way.

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The Intellectual Magician: Sociological Analysis of the Muslim Dissidents

Brahimi¹

2019

Islamophobia Studies Journal

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the constitutive figure of the Islamophobic discourse: the Muslim dissident. We establish a typology of the main figures that fall under the definition of “Muslim dissidents,” as well as of the social context through which they operate. We identify dissident Muslims as a social group through their intellectual contributions and compare their trajectories as well as their social attributes. This allows us to analyze their position and the medium of their intellectual statements.

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Human rights narrative in the George W. Bush Administrations

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The Intellectual Magician: Sociological Analysis of the Muslim Dissidents

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