Rhetoric and Rights: Citizenship and the Politics of Persuasion

被引：1

作者：

Rees, Peter ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Aberystwyth Univ, Dept Int Polit, Aberystwyth SY23 3FE, Dyfed, Wales

来源：

POLITICAL STUDIES | 2023年 / 71卷 / 04期

基金：

英国经济与社会研究理事会;

关键词：

citizenship; rhetoric; rights; migration; performativity; the Sans-papiers;

D O I：

10.1177/00323217211063729

中图分类号：

D0 [政治学、政治理论];

学科分类号：

0302 ; 030201 ;

摘要：

This article examines the relevance of rhetorical analysis for the theory and practice of rights-claiming. Recent work in the field of human rights proposes that what is important about rights is not what they 'are' but what they 'do'. Utilising performative theory, they suggest that rights-claiming is best understood as a perlocutionary practice of persuasion. The question is, 'How might rights claims be most persuasive?' This article applies insights from the field of rhetoric to investigate how practices of rights-claiming by migrants in France contest French citizenship. It argues that rights claims are ethico-political negotiations of a political situation and that such practices are persuasive when they mobilise transcendent principles embedded within particular political communities. Rhetorical analysis explains how rights can be both inventive and efficacious. In so doing, this article extends the human rights literature by providing a refined rights-claiming analytic.

引用

页码：1190 / 1207

页数：18

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