13 Acts of Academic Journalism and Historical Commentary on Human Rights - Opinions, Interventions and the Torsions of Politics

Constituted of a range of essays, the present volume addresses a variety of contemporary and historical events from human rights perspectives. Taking on issues from the American presidential election to North Korean missile tests to terrorism and «civilizational» conflict to Cold War history, the current collection seeks to speak plainly by combining academic convention with a «feuilleton» style. Aimed at students and the public as much as other academics, the essays in this book seek to make rights concepts concrete by speaking to the issues through which they become salient: international conflict, social justice problems and the historical scenes that ask us to realize all human beings' equality and dignity - an equality and dignity this book seeks to promote.

List of contents

Human Rights - International conflict - Peace - Cultural conflict - Rights and the arts - Social justice - Academic journalism - Historical commentary

About the author

Ben Dorfman is Associate Professor of Intellectual and Cultural History and Head of the Language and International Studies program at Aalborg University (Denmark).

Product details

• Authors: Ben Dorfman, Benjamin Dorfman
• Assisted by: Óscar García Agustín (Editor)
• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2017
• EAN: 9783631722336
• ISBN: 978-3-631-72233-6
• No. of pages: 222
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 19 mm x 210 mm
• Weight: 380 g
• Illustrations: 14 Abb.
• Series: Political and Social Change; Political and Social Change
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries