Deliberative acts [electronic resource] : democracy, rhetoric, and rights / Arabella Lyon.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Defining deliberative space : rethinking persuasion, position, and identification -- Performative deliberation and the narratable who -- Narrating rights, creating agents : missing women in the U.S. media -- The beauty of Arendt's lies : Menchú's political strategy -- Voting like a girl : declarations, paradoxes of deliberation, and embodied citizens as a difference in kind.

"Offers a theory of performative deliberation, arguing that speech acts, performances, and performatives constitute citizens, agency, and events. Through analysis of human rights conflicts, it reveals difference's productivity and necessity as it demonstrates the power of performative theory"--Provided by publisher.

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