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The rhetoric of global democracy: Humanitarian NGOs and the crafting of community.

机译:全球民主的言论:人道主义非政府组织和社区的建设。

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This study examines the political and symbolic action of contemporary humanitarian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in order to better understand their role within a global/ized world. It is argued that within the context of modern globalization, there is an impending crisis of community, a crisis which is spurring a new movement of humanitarian nonstate actors to gain a stake in the shape our world will take. Contemporary humanitarian NGOs are important vehicles in this movement. Their influence is felt both at the level of political action and, importantly, at the level of symbolic action, in their ability to persuade and mobilize constituencies to take action on specific issues, and in their proclivity to rhetorically "craft" a new ethos of global community among various publics. Extensive discursive analysis of two humanitarian NGOs---Medecins Sans Frontieres/Doctors Without Borders, and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, reveals unique and complex negotiations of group identity, conceptions of human rights and public space. Notable in these negotiations are the publicly constructed vocabularies for action which each NGO enlists for its cause. These vocabularies, made up of powerful yet fuzzy cluster terms, or what are referred to in the study as "discursigraphs," lend insight into the process by which rhetors and audiences come together in public episodes marked by choice and contingency, and they help to explain the motivations, aspirations and underlying values of their adherents. The study finds that NGOs are best understood not as monolithic organizational structures, but rather, as shifting flows of people, ideas, resources and power. Furthermore, the case studies demonstrate that NGOs fulfill a function of publicity which is vital to any project of global democracy. Findings also suggest that further study of the connections between political agency and rhetorical agency is warranted. Public communicative practice, as a viable form of social action, is intimately imbricated with political discourse, and as such, the two should be studied not in isolation but in tandem with one another.
机译:这项研究考察了当代人道主义非政府组织(NGO)的政治和象征性行动,以便更好地了解它们在全球化/全球化世界中的作用。有人认为,在现代全球化的背景下,即将到来的社区危机是一场危机,这场危机正在促使人道主义非国家行为者发起新的运动,以争取对我们世界将采取的形态产生影响。当代人道主义非政府组织是这一运动的重要工具。无论是在政治行动方面,还是重要的是在象征性行动方面,他们的说服力,说服和动员选民对特定问题采取行动的能力,以及他们在言辞上“设计”出一种新的精神的感觉都可以感受到他们的影响。公众之间的全球社区。对两个人道主义非政府组织-无国界医生/无国界医生组织和国际禁止地雷运动的广泛论述,揭示了关于群体身份,人权观念和公共空间的独特而复杂的谈判。在这些谈判中值得注意的是每个非政府组织争取其事业而公开采取行动的词汇。这些词汇由功能强大而又模糊的簇词组成,或在研究中称为“无谓词”,有助于洞悉修辞者和听众聚集在以选择和偶然性为特征的公共情节中的过程,它们有助于解释参与者的动机,愿望和潜在价值。该研究发现,最好将非政府组织理解为单一的组织结构,而应理解为人员,思想,资源和权力的转移。此外,案例研究表明,非政府组织具有宣传功能,这对于任何全球民主项目都是至关重要的。研究结果还表明,有必要进一步研究政治机构和修辞机构之间的联系。作为一种可行的社会行动形式,公共交往实践与政治话语密切相关,因此,两者不应孤立地研究,而应相互研究。

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  • 作者

    DeChaine, D. Robert.;

  • 作者单位

    The Claremont Graduate University.;

  • 授予单位 The Claremont Graduate University.;
  • 学科 Speech Communication.; Political Science International Law and Relations.; Sociology Social Structure and Development.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2002
  • 页码 319 p.
  • 总页数 319
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 语言学;国际法;社会结构和社会关系;
  • 关键词

  • 入库时间 2022-08-17 11:46:03

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