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Deliberative acts : democracy, rhetoric, and rights
- Title
- Deliberative acts : democracy, rhetoric, and rights / Arabella Lyon.
- Author
- Lyon, Arabella, 1951-
- Publication
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2013.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 222 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Offers a theory of performative deliberation, arguing that speech acts, performances, and performatives constitute citizens, agency, and events. Through analysis of human rights conflicts, it reveals difference's productivity and necessity as it demonstrates the power of performative theory"--Provided by publisher.
- Series Statement
- Rhetoric and democratic deliberation
- Uniform Title
- Rhetoric and democratic deliberation.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-214) and index.
- Contents
- Defining deliberative space : rethinking persuasion, position, and identification -- Performative deliberation and the narratable who -- Narrating rights, creating agents : missing women in the U.S. media -- The beauty of Arendt's lies : Menchú's political strategy -- Voting like a girl : declarations, paradoxes of deliberation, and embodied citizens as a difference in kind.
- Call Number
- JFE 13-6131
- ISBN
- 9780271059747 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0271059745 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2012047606
- OCLC
- 826640068
- Author
- Lyon, Arabella, 1951-
- Title
- Deliberative acts : democracy, rhetoric, and rights / Arabella Lyon.
- Imprint
- University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2013.
- Series
- Rhetoric and democratic deliberationRhetoric and democratic deliberation.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-214) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 13-6131