- Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 222 p.)
- 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
- Deliberative acts (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Deliberative acts (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-214) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2012047606
- OCLC
- ssj0001036492
- Author
Lyon, Arabella, 1951-
- Title
Deliberative acts [electronic resource] : democracy, rhetoric, and rights / Arabella Lyon.
- Imprint
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2013.
- Series
Rhetoric and democratic deliberation
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-214) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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