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Human Rights, Visual Rhetoric, and the Trauma of Representation
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Hesford, Wendy. 2010. “Human Rights, Visual Rhetoric, and the Trauma of Representation”. TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology, April. Washington DC: American Sociological Association. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/human-rights-visual-rhetoric-and-the-trauma-of.

Abstract

Seeing is Believing. A Lens on the World. Cinema of Conscience. These common phrases
characterize the visual rhetoric and privileging of visual technologies in contemporary human
rights campaigns. "Visual rhetoric" is an emergent term within communication, rhetoric, and
composition studies used to describe the symbolic and performative...

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Subject Area(s):
Peace, War, World Conflict, and Conflict Resolution
Resource Type(s):
Syllabus
Class Level(s):
College 300

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