Joyful Human Rights / / William Paul Simmons.
In popular, legal, and academic discourses, the term "human rights" is now almost always discussed in relation to its opposite: human rights abuses. Syllabi, textbooks, and articles focus largely on victimization and trauma, with scarcely a mention of a positive dimension. Joy, especially,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2019] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 9 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Chapter 1. The Thrill Is Gone
- Chapter 2. A Phenomenology of Joy as Transgressive Affect
- Chapter 3. Whither Joy?
- Chapter 4. Joyful Activists
- Chapter 5. Joyful Perpetrators
- Chapter 6. Joyful Martyrs
- Chapter 7. Human Rights Winners
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Acknowledgments