The right to know
Suffering, human rights, and perplexities of politics in Lebanon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2260890 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shea Mcmanu (0000-0003-2711-0819), Shea C Mcmanu (corresponding author), Shea C McManus (North Carolina State University, corresponding author), SHEA McMANUS (Department of Sociology and Anthropology North Carolina State University Campus Box 8107 Raleigh NC 27695–8107) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 104-117 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Ethnologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/amet.12429 |
| OpenAlex | W2573050775 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 29 |
For decades, families in Lebanon have fought in vain for the release of information about their missing relatives. Their struggle has become increasingly entangled in a transnational configuration of experts, discourses, and practices, a configuration that is sustained by the humanitarian imperative to alleviate suffering and by an appeal to trauma, victimhood, and human rights. This appeal animates new legal and judicial forms of activism that have expanded the scope of the families' rights, compelled the government to release long-held information, and urged it to enact reforms in accordance with international standards. The convergence of these processes extends a framework of compassionate global governance that is supposed to work on behalf of subjects who are construed as victims and whose experience is essentially one of suffering
Appeal · Business · Corporate governance · Government (linguistics · Human rights · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Right to know · Scope (computer science · Sociology · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society
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| Citations per year | 0.88 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |