Human Rights in the Media : Fear and Fetish Hardback
Edited by Michelle (University of Liverpool, UK) Farrell, Eleanor Drywood, Edel Hughes
Part of the Routledge Research in Human Rights Law series
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This collection sets about untangling some of the knotty issues in the underexplored relationship between human rights and the media.
We investigate how complex debates in political, judicial, academic and public life on the role and value of human rights are represented in the media, particularly, in print journalism.
To focus the discussion, we concentrate on media representation of the controversial proposals in the United Kingdom to repeal the Human Rights Act 1998 and to replace it with a British Bill of Rights.
The collection is underpinned by the observation that views on human rights and on the proposals to repeal and replace are polarised.
On the one hand, human rights are presented as threatening and, therefore, utterly denigrated; on the other hand, human rights are idolised, and, therefore, uncritically celebrated.
This is the ‘fear and fetish’ in our title. The media plays a decisive role in constructing this polarity through its representation of political and ideological viewpoints.
In order to get to grips with the fear, the fetish and this complex interrelationship, the collection tackles key contemporary themes, amongst them: the proposed British Bill of Rights, Brexit, prisoner-voting, the demonisation of immigrants, press freedom, tabloid misreporting, trial by media and Magna Carta.
The collection explores media representation, investigates media polarity and critiques the media’s role.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:306 pages, 2 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:23/01/2019
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- ISBN:9781138645813
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:306 pages, 2 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:23/01/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9781138645813
