Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics

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Violent Exceptions turns to the humanitarian figure of the child-in-peril in twenty-first-century political discourse to better understand how this figure is appropriated by political constituencies for purposes rarely to do with the needs of children at risk. Wendy S. Hesford shows how the figure of the child-in-peril is predicated on racial division, which, she argues, is central to both conservative and liberal logics, especially at times...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0814257909

ISBN13:9780814257906

Release Date:May 2021

Publisher:Ohio State University Press

Length:282 Pages

Weight:0.84 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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Language Arts Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences

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