The Social Work of Narrative

Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-3-8382-0958-6
Verlag: ibidem

Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Studies in World Literature

This book addresses the ways in which a range of representational forms have influenced and helped implement the project of human rights across the world, and seeks to show how public discourses on law and politics grow out of and are influenced by the imaginative representations of human rights. It draws on a multi-disciplinary approach, using historical, literary, anthropological, visual arts, and media studies methods and readings, and covers a wider range of geographic areas than has previously been attempted. A series of specifically-commissioned essays by leading scholars in the field and by emerging young academics show how a multidisciplinary approach can illuminate this central concern.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Griffiths, Gareth

Mead, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Gareth Griffiths is emeritus professor of English and cultural studies at the University of Western Australia and a professorial fellow at the University of Wollongong. His many books include A Double Exile: African and West Indian Literatures in English and African Literatures in English-East and West. He is co-author of The Empire Writes Back and Indigenous Evangelists and Questions of Authority in the British Empire 1750-1940 as well as co-editor of The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Studies, Mixed Messages: Materality, Textuality, and Disputed Territories: Land, Culture and Identity in Settler Societies.

Philip Mead is chair of Australian literature at the University of Western Australia and visiting professor of Australian studies at Harvard University in 2015-16. His books include Networked Language: Culture and History in Australian Poetry, An Introduction to the Literature of Tasmania, and, with Gordon McMullan, Antipodal Shakespeare: Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916-2016.