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‘In the Name of Humanity’: Human Rights and/as Ideology

Publication date: 30.12.2022

Public Administration Yearbook, 2022, 2022 (8), pp. 389-398

https://doi.org/10.4467/24497800RAP.22.021.16797

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Iraklis Mavridis
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
, Greece
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‘In the Name of Humanity’: Human Rights and/as Ideology

Abstract

This presentation attempts to tackle some of the complex relations between ideology and human rights by referring to two interesting texts on ideology and to outline some of the discursive ways in which human rights can function as ideology. By way of doing that we aim to pose some important questions for further research concerning the ways in which human rights discourse can assume various ideological uses and functions.

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Information: Public Administration Yearbook, 2022, 2022 (8), pp. 389-398

Article type: Original article

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‘In the Name of Humanity’: Human Rights and/as Ideology

Polish: W imię człowieczeństwa: prawa człowieka i/jako ideologia

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Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Greece

Published at: 30.12.2022

Article status: Open

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