SubsidieMeestersUsing Human Rights to Change Abortion Law: Involvement Patterns and Argumentative Architectures in the Global Figuration of Human Rights
This project analyzes the diverse use of human rights arguments in abortion law debates across six countries, aiming to create a model that maps argumentative structures and their socio-legal implications.
Projectdetails
Introduction
Abortion laws are the crux of human rights diversity today. Abortion laws evidence best how differently human rights meanings are construed in various local settings. However, we know very little about how this diversity is generated in practice.
Project Overview
This project will scrutinize the communication processes that use human rights as arguments to change abortion laws. We will contrast abortion debates from the last ten years in pairs of countries that represent three regional human rights systems:
- Mozambique and Senegal (the African Union)
- Poland and Ireland (the Council of Europe)
- Argentina and Honduras (the Organization of American States)
These debates show the ambivalence of human rights: they were used successfully to argue both for more liberal and more restrictive abortion laws.
Theoretical Framework
To explain this ambivalence, we will apply concepts of argumentative architecture and involvement patterns, coined by the PI as part of her figurational sociology of law, based on Norbert Elias’s theory of the process of civilization.
Methodology
Using a mixed-methods approach that combines qualitative sociology, legal analysis, and corpus linguistics, we will offer a multi-dimensional model for a globally comparative, interdisciplinary socio-legal study of human rights.
Research Focus
We will study the structure, composition, and embedding of arguments, along with group perspectives, emotions, and circles of identification of arguing actors. This will allow us to arrive at a heat map that will show the distribution of involvement in argumentative architectures.
Goals
By constructing a global meta-typology of argumentative architectures and involvement patterns in abortion debates, we will explore the integrative, civilizing potential of human rights and identify the centrifugal forces in human rights figuration that comprise the local, regional, and global levels.
Conclusion
Finally, we will revisit the role of human rights as a universal toolbox for ideologies in order to plead their conditional rehabilitation.
Financiële details & Tijdlijn
Financiële details
| Subsidiebedrag | € 1.998.869 |
| Totale projectbegroting | € 1.998.869 |
Tijdlijn
| Startdatum | 1-10-2022 |
| Einddatum | 30-9-2027 |
| Subsidiejaar | 2022 |
Partners & Locaties
Projectpartners
- UNIWERSYTET WARSZAWSKIpenvoerder
Land(en)
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