7 research outputs found
sj-docx-1-scx-10.1177_10755470241231289 – Supplemental material for Tipping the Scales of Psychological Reactance: A Closer Look at Imperative Language and the Role of Epistemic Certainty
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-scx-10.1177_10755470241231289 for Tipping the Scales of Psychological Reactance: A Closer Look at Imperative Language and the Role of Epistemic Certainty by Callie Kalny and Nathan Walter in Science Communication</p
Against superciliousness: Revisiting the debate 60 years after the adoption of the universal declaration of human rights
No full textThis text will analyze the commonly accepted philosophical foundation of human rights, the international system of protection of human rights and selected perspectives of activists. It argues that dominant European, North American and Australian discourses of human rights do not describe human rights as such but only constitute specific expressions of human rights, and attempts to outline the characteristics of these discourses. It concludes that the limitations of a concept of human rights based on the exclusive reference to the state, as well as on Eurocentrism and processes of othering, can only be overcome through intercultural polylogues based on respect and equality. Rather than focusing on the concept of rights and their development, this text focuses on the concepts of humans and human dignity. © The Author(s), 2009
Trust Falls: Analyzing Trust in Science as a Moderator of the Boundaries of Source Credibility in Contentious Scientific Contexts
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Talking Culture, Crying Health, Hoping for Nothing: Surviving the Many Flyers above the Human Rights Global Cuckoo’s Nests
No full textToday’s talk about any health issue is part of a wider web of neoliberal destructive processes of which all fall into the
category of discriminating populations and their cultures, downgrading their right to life and violating their human
dignity. Poor health, poverty stricken health systems and screaming epidemiological factors make just one more triangle
of the successive visible consequences of destruction that equals to the violation of human dignity, to begin with. Yet no
correction is possible since every problem is tied to the double standard perceivement of Human Rights. The author is engaged
in presenting a need of a deeper auto-reflexive work-through of our human approachments and biological realities.
This urgent stance is based on the new, set by Kalny (2009) and Baxi (2006), orientation towards a critical reading of
the Human Rights and the advocacy toward differentiating between the politics for human rights and politics of human
rights (the later being the politics of rights instrumentalization). Health and its un-sustainability is one of the most dramatic
areas in which this differentiation of ones approaches is dramatically felt and needed. The end conclusions are envisioned
to support the already existing field of a number of dedicated critical medical anthropologists, as well as authors
across all fields, in their demand for, nothing more or less than, the dignity for the populations that they/we daily represent
