Deliberative Acts: Democracy, Rhetoric, and Rights

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DELIBERATIVE ACTS VOLUME 7 edited by cheryl glenn and j. michael hogan the pennsylvania state university Editorial Board: Robert Asen (University of Wisconsin–Madison) Debra Hawhee (The Pennsylvania State University) Peter Levine (Tufts University) Steven J. Mailloux (University of California, Irvine) Krista Ratcliffe (Marquette University) Karen Tracy (University of Colorado, Boulder) Kirt Wilson (The Pennsylvania State University) David Zarefsky (Northwestern University) Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation is a series of groundbreaking monographs and edited volumes focusing on the character and quality of public discourse in politics and culture. It is sponsored by the Center for Democratic Deliberation, an interdisciplinary center for research, teaching, and outreach on issues of rhetoric, civic engagement, and public deliberation. Other books in the series: Karen Tracy, Challenges of Ordinary Democracy: A Case Study in Deliberation and Dissent / VOLUME 1 Samuel McCormick, Letters to Power: Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals / VOLUME 2 Christian Kock and Lisa S. Villadsen, eds., Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation / VOLUME 3 Jay P. Childers, The Evolving Citizen: American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement / VOLUME 4 Dave Tell, Confessional Crises: Confession and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America / VOLUME 5 David Boromisza-Habashi, Speaking Hatefully: Culture, Public Communication, Political Action in Hungary / VOLUME 6 RD D RHETORICANDDEMOCRATICDELIBERATION DELIBERATIVE ACTS democracy, rhetoric, and rights arabella lyon The Pennsylvania State University Press | University Park, Pennsylvania A version of chapter 3 previously appeared as “Misrepresenting Missing Women in the U.S. Press: The Rhetorical Uses of Disgust, Pity, and Compassion,” in Just Advocacy? Women’s Human Rights, Transnational Feminism, and the Politics of Representation, edited by Wendy S. Hesford and Wendy Kozol (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2005). Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lyon, Arabella, 1951– Deliberative acts : democracy, rhetoric, and rights / Arabella Lyon. p. cm. — (Rhetoric and democratic deliberation) Summary: “Offers a theory of performative deliberation, arguing that speech acts, performances, and performatives constitute citizens, agency, and events. Through analysis of human rights conflicts, it reveals difference’s productivity and necessity as it demonstrates the power of performative theory”—Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-271-05974-7 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Deliberative democracy. 2. Performative (Philosophy). 3. Human rights. I. Title. JC423.L88 2013 321.8—dc23 2012047606 Copyright © 2013 The Pennsylvania State University All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA 16802–1003 The Pennsylvania State University Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses. It is the policy of The Pennsylvania State University Press to use acid-free paper. Publications on uncoated stock satisfy the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Material, ANSI Z39.48–1992. This book is printed on paper containing 30% post-consumer waste. ...