Violent exceptions : children's human rights and humanitarian rhetorics /

Examines the child-in-peril in twenty-first century political discourse to better understand the assemblages of power and exceptionality in contemporary discourse. Analyzes images and stories of child migrants, child refugees, undocumented children, child soldiers and children who are victims of war...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hesford, Wendy S. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2021]
Series:New directions in rhetoric and materiality.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Children's rights and humanitarian rationalities
  • "No tears here": humanitarian recognition, liminality, and the child refugee
  • Trafficking global girlhoods, terrorism, and humanitarian celebrity
  • Humanitarian futures: disability exceptionalism and African child soldier narratives
  • Humanitarian negations: Black childhoods and US carceral systems
  • Queer optics: humanitarian thresholds and transgender children's rights
  • Coda: "Walls as we see them".