Mediating Human Rights - Media, Culture and Human Rights Law

Drawing on social-legal, cultural and media theory, this book is one of the first to examine the media politics of human rights. It examines how the media construct the story of human rights, investigating what lies behind the apparent media hostility to human rights and what has become of the original ambition to establish a human rights culture.

The human rights regime has been high on the political agenda ever since the Human Rights Act 1998 was enacted. Often maligned in sections of the press, the legislation has entered popular folklore as shorthand for an overbearing government, an overzealous judiciary and exploitative claimants. This book examines a range of significant factors in the mediation of human rights, including: Euroscepticism, the war on terror, the digital reordering of the media landscape, , press concerns about an emerging privacy law and civil liberties.

Mediating Human Rights is a timely exploration of the relationship between law, politics and media. It will be of immense interest to those studying and researching across Law, Media Studies, Human Rights, and Politics.

Sommario

Table of cases, List of acronyms, Chapter 1: Introduction, Chapter 2: A villains’ charter? Human rights and news framing, Chapter 3: Liberty versus rights: mapping the fault lines in Britain’s human rights polemic, Chapter 4: The press, privacy and the Human Rights Act, Chapter 5: Extradition, human rights abuse and the sufferer nearby, Chapter 6: Mediating the human rights message, Chapter 7: Human rights and promotional governance, Chapter 8: Identity and human rights culture, Chapter 9: A human rights culture of some sorts?, Endnotes, Bibliography, Index

Riassunto

Mediating Human Rights addresses how the relationship between security and civil liberties has been shaped by the media.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lieve Gies, Gies Lieve
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 22.06.2014
• EAN: 9780415601528
• ISBN: 978-0-415-60152-8
• Pagine: 180
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto internazionale, diritto degli stranieri; History, Media Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LAW / Communications, LAW / Media & the Law, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, Terrorism, armed struggle, Humanities, Communication Studies, Political campaigning & advertising, Social Law, Political campaigning and advertising, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Law & society, Law and society, sociology of law, Social law and Medical law