The human rights repertoire

Its Strategic Logic, Expectations and Tactics

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ID8063967
AuthorsMargaret Hagan (0000-0003-2972-1867, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume14
Issue4
Pages559-583
Publication date2010-07-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe International Journal of Human Rights (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1364-2987 • E-ISSN: 1744-053X
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13642980802704312
OpenAlexW2131820431
LanguageEN
Citations received6

The article explores the strategic use of ‘human rights’ in challenger activism. Drawing upon a wide variety of observations from academics, politicians, and journalists, it formalises the concept of ‘the human rights repertoire’. Political actors employ this set of strategies by making claims of human rights abuse in order to further their interests. The article delineates the logic and expectations of the repertoire, as well as its intermediate goals and the claim components and behaviour it uses to achieve them. The human rights repertoire is an information-based, non-violent strategy, which relies on the power of norm invocations and displays of abuse to secure support from the target audience. To demonstrate the specifics of the repertoire, the article draws upon the case study of the transnational Uyghur campaign, which uses the human rights repertoire as its primary means to secure Western support in their challenge to the Chinese authorities

Human rights · Law and economics · Norm (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Public relations · Repertoire · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Computer Science · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics · Political Conflict and Governance · Artificial Intelligence · Law

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