Victim's Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights addresses questions suggested by the worldwide persistence of human rights abuse and the prevalence of appeals to victims' stories in human rights campaigns, truth commissions, and international criminal tribunals.
Victim's Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights addresses questions suggested by the worldwide persistence of human rights abuse and the prevalence of appeals to victims' stories in human rights campaigns, truth commissions, and international criminal tribunals.
Diana Tietjens Meyers is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at University of Connecticut, Storrs; author of several books including GENDER IN THE MIRROR: CULTURAL IMAGERY AND WOMEN'S AGENCY (2002, OUP; 231 cl, 317 p LTD)
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* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Chapter 1: Two Victim Paradigms and the Problem of "Impure " Victims * 1. Two Victim Paradigms * A. The Pathetic Victim Paradigm * B. The Heroic Victim Paradigm * 2. Controversial - "Impure " - Victims * A. Trafficked Sex Workers * B. Death Row Inmates * 3. Parameters of Innocence * A. Getting Real about Innocence * B. The Victim Paradigms Revisited * C. Reconceiving the Innocence of Victims * 4. Reclaiming Victim Discourse * Chapter 2: Narrative Structures, Narratives of Abuse, And Human Rights * 1. The Amsterdam/Bruner Account of Narrative * 2. Narrative Regimentation, Social Exclusion, and Truth Forfeiture * 3. Hayden White's Account of Narrative and Closure * 4. Spelman's Account of Normativity in a Victim's Story * 5. Strejilevich's Skepticism about Normativity in Victims' Stories * 6. Varieties of Moral Closure * 7. Moral Closure without Moral Resolution * Chapter 3: Learning from Victims' Stories: The Promise and Problems of Emotional Understanding * 1. Narrative Artifice: Arbitrary and Non-Rational? * 2. Affective Intelligence and Moral Understanding * 3. Scenes from a Child Soldier's Story * 4. Imaginative Resistance to a Child Soldier's Story * 5. Emotionally Understanding a Child Soldier's Story * 6. Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Affective Understanding * Chapter 4: Empathy and the Meanings of Human Rights in Human Lives * 1. Peter Goldie's Critique of Empathy * 2. A Conception of Empathy for Moral Philosophy * 3. Why Empathy Is (Isn't) a Moral Power * A. Empathy and Altruistic Action * B. Empathy and Moral Understanding * 4. Empathy, Embodiment, and Suffering * 5. A Woman in Berlin Eight Weeks in the Conquered City * 6. Empathy, Victims' Stories, and Human Rights * Chapter 5: The Ethics and Politics of Putting Victims' Stories to Work * 1. The Problem of Victim Derogation and Blaming * 2. The Ethics of Using Victims' Stories to Promote Human Rights * A. Aid and Research Projects * B. Justice Projects * 3. Ethical Politics: Civil Society and Advancing Human Rights * A. Ethical Practices Within Human Rights Groups * B. Ethical Relations Among Human Rights NGOs * 4. Concluding Reflections * References * Index
* Acknowledgments * Introduction * Chapter 1: Two Victim Paradigms and the Problem of "Impure " Victims * 1. Two Victim Paradigms * A. The Pathetic Victim Paradigm * B. The Heroic Victim Paradigm * 2. Controversial - "Impure " - Victims * A. Trafficked Sex Workers * B. Death Row Inmates * 3. Parameters of Innocence * A. Getting Real about Innocence * B. The Victim Paradigms Revisited * C. Reconceiving the Innocence of Victims * 4. Reclaiming Victim Discourse * Chapter 2: Narrative Structures, Narratives of Abuse, And Human Rights * 1. The Amsterdam/Bruner Account of Narrative * 2. Narrative Regimentation, Social Exclusion, and Truth Forfeiture * 3. Hayden White's Account of Narrative and Closure * 4. Spelman's Account of Normativity in a Victim's Story * 5. Strejilevich's Skepticism about Normativity in Victims' Stories * 6. Varieties of Moral Closure * 7. Moral Closure without Moral Resolution * Chapter 3: Learning from Victims' Stories: The Promise and Problems of Emotional Understanding * 1. Narrative Artifice: Arbitrary and Non-Rational? * 2. Affective Intelligence and Moral Understanding * 3. Scenes from a Child Soldier's Story * 4. Imaginative Resistance to a Child Soldier's Story * 5. Emotionally Understanding a Child Soldier's Story * 6. Humanitarianism, Human Rights, and Affective Understanding * Chapter 4: Empathy and the Meanings of Human Rights in Human Lives * 1. Peter Goldie's Critique of Empathy * 2. A Conception of Empathy for Moral Philosophy * 3. Why Empathy Is (Isn't) a Moral Power * A. Empathy and Altruistic Action * B. Empathy and Moral Understanding * 4. Empathy, Embodiment, and Suffering * 5. A Woman in Berlin Eight Weeks in the Conquered City * 6. Empathy, Victims' Stories, and Human Rights * Chapter 5: The Ethics and Politics of Putting Victims' Stories to Work * 1. The Problem of Victim Derogation and Blaming * 2. The Ethics of Using Victims' Stories to Promote Human Rights * A. Aid and Research Projects * B. Justice Projects * 3. Ethical Politics: Civil Society and Advancing Human Rights * A. Ethical Practices Within Human Rights Groups * B. Ethical Relations Among Human Rights NGOs * 4. Concluding Reflections * References * Index
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