Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition

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Memory, Trauma, and Testimony Autobiographical and Biographical Writing Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics

Abstract

Personal narratives have become one of the most potent vehicles for advancing human rights claims across the world. This text explores what happens when autobiographical narratives are produced, received and circulated in the field of human rights.

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