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oapen-20.500.12657-485412023-01-31T18:35:35Z Violent Exceptions Hesford, Wendy S. Political Science Human Rights Language Arts & Disciplines Rhetoric Social Science Children's Studies bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPV Political control & freedoms::JPVH Human rights bic Book Industry Communication::C Language::CF linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, etc bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSP Age groups::JFSP1 Age groups: children 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 of crisis when politicians leverage humanitarian storytelling as a political weapon. Through iconic images and stories of child migrants, child refugees, undocumented children, child soldiers, and children who are victims of war, terrorism, and state violence, Violent Exceptions illustrates how humanitarian rhetoric turns public attention away from systemic violations against children’s human rights and reframes this violence as exceptional—erasing more gradual forms of violence and minimizing human rights potential to counteract these violations and the precarious conditions from which they arise. 2021-05-12T03:30:20Z 2021-05-12T03:30:20Z 2021 book 9780814281178 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/48541 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf The Ohio State University Press The Ohio State University Press https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814214688 https://doi.org/10.26818/9780814214688 81dece0b-2c7f-42c9-84d3-58c98f0c33fc 9780814281178 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem (TOME) The Ohio State University Press open access
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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 of crisis when politicians leverage humanitarian storytelling as a political weapon. Through iconic images and stories of child migrants, child refugees, undocumented children, child soldiers, and children who are victims of war, terrorism, and state violence, Violent Exceptions illustrates how humanitarian rhetoric turns public attention away from systemic violations against children’s human rights and reframes this violence as exceptional—erasing more gradual forms of violence and minimizing human rights potential to counteract these violations and the precarious conditions from which they arise.
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