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Original scientific paper

Inside and Outside the New Global Community. Human Rights Discourse in Japan and Beyond

Iza Kavedžija ; Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford


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Abstract

Issues surrounding the “ownership” of human rights discourse are examined in relation to the variety of ways in which this discourse is utilized. It is argued that the instrumentalist language of human rights discourse skeletonizes social reality, while creating interpretive communities and opening up spaces for the dispossessed. To the extent that the discourse enables the creation of a symbolic community, it leads at the same time to the exclusion of some people through the boundary drawing process.

Keywords

human rights; discourse; symbolic community; globalization; recontextualization

Hrčak ID:

75300

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/75300

Publication date:

27.12.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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