Research Commons
      • Browse 
        • Communities & Collections
        • Titles
        • Authors
        • By Issue Date
        • Subjects
        • Types
        • Series
      • Help 
        • About
        • Collection Policy
        • OA Mandate Guidelines
        • Guidelines FAQ
        • Contact Us
      • My Account 
        • Sign In
        • Register
      View Item 
      •   Research Commons
      • University of Waikato Research
      • Law
      • Law Papers
      • View Item
      •   Research Commons
      • University of Waikato Research
      • Law
      • Law Papers
      • View Item
      JavaScript is disabled for your browser. Some features of this site may not work without it.

      ‘Framing the project’ of international human rights law: Reflections on the dysfunctional ‘family’ of the Universal Declaration

      Grear, Anna
      Thumbnail
      Files
      Grear 2012 Framing the project.pdf
      189.0Kb
      Link
       www.cambridge.org
      Find in your library  
      Citation
      Export citation
      Grear, A. (2012). ‘Framing the project’ of international human rights law: Reflections on the dysfunctional ‘family’ of the Universal Declaration. In C. Gearty & C. Douzinas (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Human Rights Law (pp.17-35). Cambridge University Press.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/7684
      Abstract
      The task of ‘framing the project’ of international human rights law is daunting to say the least. First, there is the sheer enormity and complexity of the international human rights law ‘project’: adequately mapping the subject and its key related issues is impossible in a whole book, let alone a short chapter. Secondly, it is daunting because of the sense of epistemic responsibility involved. Every framing inevitably involves selection – if not pre-selection – through the conscious (and/or unconscious) placing of focus upon features or factors considered to be significant and/or valuable. As Gitlin puts it, framing is a way of choosing, underlining and presenting ‘what exists, what happens and what matters’. In this sense, the founding document (or as Entman might put it, the inaugural ‘communicating text’) of international human rights law (the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, UDHR) functions as a particularly potent form of framing, for it selects aspects of perceived reality, making them not just salient but symbolically central to the entire philosophical, moral, juridical order designated by the term ‘international human rights law’.
      Date
      2012
      Type
      Chapter in Book
      Publisher
      Cambridge University Press
      Rights
      © Cambridge University Press 2012. Used with permission.
      Additional information
      Full text embargoed until November 2013.
      Collections
      • Law Papers [301]
      Show full item record  

      Usage

      Downloads, last 12 months
      342
       
       

      Usage Statistics

      For this itemFor all of Research Commons

      The University of Waikato - Te Whare Wānanga o WaikatoFeedback and RequestsCopyright and Legal Statement