Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation. Deliberative Acts : : Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights / / Arabella Lyon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Lyon, Arabella,
• Place / Publishing House: University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2015]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation ; 7
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: deliberation in the global era --; 1 Defining deliberative space: rethinking persuasion, position, and identification --; 2 Performative deliberation and the narratable who --; 3 Narrating rights, creating agents: missing women in the U.S. media --; 4 The beauty of Arendt’s lies: Menchú’s political strategy --; 5 Voting like a girl: declarations, paradoxes of deliberation, and embodied citizens as a difference in kind --; Notes --; Works cited --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780271062228; 9783110745269
• DOI: 10.1515/9780271062228?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Arabella Lyon.

The twenty-first century is characterized by the global circulation of cultures, norms, representations, discourses, and human rights claims; the arising conflicts require innovative understandings of decision making. Deliberative Acts develops a new, cogent theory of performative deliberation. Rather than conceiving deliberation within the familiar frameworks of persuasion, identification, or procedural democracy, it privileges speech acts and bodily enactments that constitute deliberation itself, reorienting deliberative theory toward the initiating moment of recognition, a moment in which interlocutors are positioned in relationship to each other and so may begin to construct a new lifeworld. By approaching human rights not as norms or laws, but as deliberative acts, Lyon conceives rights as relationships among people and as ongoing political and historical projects developing communal norms through global and cross-cultural interactions.