Human Rights in the Media: Fear and Fetish (Routledge Research in Human Rights Law)

By: Michelle Farrell and Eleanor Drywood and Edel Hughes

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Synopsis: 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 306 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781317239482
Related ISBNs:: 9780367662523, 9781138645813, 9781315627922
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 08/27/23
Copyrighted By:: Michelle Farrell, Eleanor Drywood, Edel Hughes
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Michelle Farrell
Edited by:: Eleanor Drywood
Edited by:: Edel Hughes