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Presidential healthcare reform rhetoric: continuity, change & contested values from Truman to Obama
In: Rhetoric, politics and society
This book analyzes the rhetorical strategies employed by the four Democratic presidents, Truman, Johnson, Clinton and Obama, who tried to expand access to and affordability of healthcare in the United States. It considers how they made such arguments, the ethics they advanced, and the vision of America they espoused. The author combines rhetoric analysis, policy analysis, and policy history to illuminate the dynamic nature of the way American presidents have imagined the moral and social bonds of the American people and their exhortations for governance and policy to reflect and honor these bonds and obligations. Schimmel illustrates how Democratic presidents invoke positive liberty and communitarian values in direct challenge to opposing conservative ideologies of limited government and prioritization of negative liberty and their increasing prominence in the post-Reagan era. He also draws attention to the ethical and policy compromises entailed by the usage of specific rhetorical strategies and their resulting discursive effects
Improving human rights NGO ethics and accountability: A critique of Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch and human rights utopianism
In: World affairs: a journal of ideas and debate
ISSN: 1940-1582
AbstractThis commentary calls for a more critical relationship with human rights NGOs, specifically, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. I argue that their politics, positionality, and power are often obscured by their conflation as intrinsically imperfect organizations that yield power and influence with the moral principles of human rights and with international human rights law itself, which are popularly perceived as unimpeachable and sacred in a secular ethical way. I contend that this conflation—often a deliberate and strategic one espoused by the organizations themselves—undermines the integrity of their work and the capacity to hold them accountable for their human rights advocacy. I illustrate ways in which both organizations have neglected to respect human rights and, specifically, principles of equality and universality. I further argue that both organizations need to be humbler and more honest about the moral, legal, and practical limitations of their work and ways in which it can be compromised. This is due to the exigencies of donor dependency and the politics of fundraising, the social, cultural, and political contexts in which the organizations operate and the expectations and demands of their supporters, and the nature of human rights as a movement, body of law, and expression of moral idealism that can sometimes obscure its prejudices, assumptions, and pathologies of power.
COMMENTARY – THE STATE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN SOUTH AFRICA APPROACHING 30 YEARS OF POST‐APARTHEID DEMOCRACY: SUCCESSES, FAILURES, AND PROSPECTS
In: World affairs: a journal of ideas and debate, Band 186, Heft 4, S. 1019-1025
ISSN: 1940-1582
As South Africa approaches 30 years of democracy, it is important to pause to reflect and analyze the trajectory of human rights since the fall of the apartheid regime and the advent of multiracial democracy. Although there was a large global movement against apartheid, this movement's vigilance for human rights in South Africa quickly declined and dissolved with the advent of South African democracy. There is little critical engagement with South Africa's contemporary human rights record and policies by global human rights activists, nongovernmental organizations, and civil society and still less active campaigning in defense of the human rights of South Africans, especially South Africa's most vulnerable and disadvantaged black majority. The energy that was summoned to protest apartheid and to boycott it never returned since the advent of democracy. This commentary explores the current state of human rights in South Africa, their prospects, and challenges to their respect, protection, and fulfillment.
BOOK REVIEW: Can We Unlearn Racism? What South Africa Teaches Us About WhitenessJacobBoersema. 2022. Can We Unlearn Racism? What South Africa Teaches Us About Whiteness. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 320 pp. $22.71. 978‐1503614765
In: World affairs: a journal of ideas and debate, Band 186, Heft 3, S. 825-829
ISSN: 1940-1582
Distorted Representations of Rwandan Tutsis in American Popular Culture: Ignorance, Racism, and the Hollywood Gaze
In: Peace review: peace, security & global change, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 460-471
ISSN: 1469-9982
BOOK REVIEW: 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows
In: World affairs: a journal of ideas and debate, Band 186, Heft 2, S. 507-509
ISSN: 1940-1582
Interviews with Survivors of the Rwandan-French Genocide against the Tutsi: On the Limits and Possibilities of "Reconciliation" and Its Qualities and Consequences
In: Peace review: peace, security & global change, Band 35, Heft 1, S. 145-157
ISSN: 1469-9982
A Critical Perspective on Reconciliation in Rwanda: Toward Peace and Coexistence, Centering Genocide Survivors' Human Rights, Dignity & Welfare
In: Peace review: peace, security & global change, Band 35, Heft 1, S. 95-108
ISSN: 1469-9982
THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL'S UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW AS A RHETORICAL BATTLEFIELD OF NATIONS: Useful Tool or Futile Performance?
In: World affairs: a journal of ideas and debate, Band 186, Heft 1, S. 10-45
ISSN: 1940-1582
Applying the case study of Saudi Arabia, this article examines the rhetoric of nations who are well documented as being severe violators of human rights and the use they make of the UN Human Rights Council Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism to defend, downplay, and deny their human rights violations. Authoritarian countries who violate human rights systemically, severely, and intentionally as a matter of government policy apply different rhetorical strategies when undergoing the UPR process and writing and submitting their respective national reports for the UPR process. This article analyzes these strategies, illustrates how different countries use them during the UPR process, and explores the value and limitations of the UPR process and its efficacy at advancing human rights.
Toward an Ethic of Friendship in Academic Research: A Reflection on Rwanda and Survivors of the Genocide against the Tutsi
In: Peace review: peace, security & global change, Band 34, Heft 3, S. 413-417
ISSN: 1469-9982
TRAPPED BY SOVEREIGNTY: The Fate of Internally Displaced Persons and Their Lack of Equal Human Rights Protection under International Law
In: World affairs: a journal of ideas and debate, Band 185, Heft 3, S. 500-529
ISSN: 1940-1582
This article examines the legal contours of the international law regime as it relates to internally displaced people (IDPs) and assesses it critically. It analyzes the structural legal and humanitarian injustices from which IDPs suffer as a result of often arbitrary distinctions between them and refugees in international refugee law, international human rights law, and international humanitarian law. It explores how IDPs do not have the same explicit, dedicated legal protections in international law as refugees who have fled their countries of origin and crossed an international border. It argues that precisely because IDPs lack international legal protections, their rights and needs are often overlooked and met with indifference and lack of sufficient humanitarian response from the United Nations, its agencies and member states, and global humanitarian NGOs. It discusses efforts to recognize a specific set of international legal rights for IDPs, why they have been stymied for several decades, and the practical consequences in terms of human rights deferred and denied and human welfare undermined for IDPs and their increasing vulnerability and disadvantage. Finally, it presents ways of improving respect for and fulfillment of the human rights of IDPs.
Transitional Justice Interviews and Reflections: Perspectives of Women Survivors of the Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi on Reparation and Repair
In: Peace review: peace, security & global change, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 246-258
ISSN: 1469-9982
A Critical Perspective on Reconciliation and a Rwandan Case Study
In: Peace review: peace, security & global change, Band 34, Heft 4, S. 560-573
ISSN: 1469-9982
An Overview of Contemporary Human Rights Scholarship
In: Peace review: peace, security & global change, Band 34, Heft 1, S. 99-110
ISSN: 1469-9982