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Author Zivi, Karen.

Title Making rights claims : a practice of democratic citizenship / Karen Zivi
Published New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 158 pages)
Contents From rights to rights claiming -- Rights as trumps and the quest for certainty -- Rights claiming as a practice of persuasion -- Claiming rights and performing citizenship -- Making rights claims in the age of aids -- Practicing democracy
Summary 'Making Rights Claims' argues that understanding and assessing the relationship between rights and democracy requires a new approach to the study of rights. Zivi combines insights from speech act theory with recent developments in democratic and feminist thought to develop a theory of the performativity of rights claiming
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Human rights.
Civil rights.
Civil rights
Human rights
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199919437
0199919437