Victims' stories and the advancement of human rights /

'Victims' Stories and the Advancement of Human Rights' addresses a set of critical topics that victims' stories of human rights abuse raise but that philosophers have thus far neglected: paradigms of victimhood and unjustifiable exclusions from the category of victim; narrative s...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Meyers, Diana T. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Human rights advocacy. Victims of crimes > Civil rights. Défense des droits de l'homme. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare. Human rights advocacy Victims of crimes > Civil rights Crime. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. Two Victim Paradigms and the Problem of "Impure" Victims
2. Narrative Structures, Narratives of Abuse, and Human Rights
3. Emotional Understanding and Victims' Stories
4. Empathy and the Meanings of Human Rights in Human Lives
5. The Ethics and Politics of Putting Victims' Stories to Work.