Violent Exceptions: Children's Human Rights and Humanitarian Rhetorics

by Wendy S. Hesford

Book Overview

Violent Exceptions turns to the humanitarian figure of the child-in-peril in twenty-first-century political discourse to better understand how this figure is appropriated by political constituencies for purposes rarely to do with the needs of children at risk. Wendy S. Hesford shows how the figure of the child-in-peril is predicated on racial division, which, she argues, is central to both conservative and liberal logics, especially at times...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814257909
• ISBN13: 9780814257906
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"