Descrizione del progetto
Spianare la strada a una comprensione chiara dei diritti umani
Nonostante nella maggior parte dei paesi l’aborto sia legale, in almeno alcune circostanze, le norme variano ampiamente in un ventaglio che va dall’estrema restrittività alla piena liberalità. Sebbene sappiamo tuttora molto poco rispetto alle ragioni alla base di tale diversità, è evidente che essa riveste un ruolo fondamentale nella questione dell’interpretazione e dell’implementazione di diritti umani chiari e giusti in qualsiasi contesto culturale. Il progetto Abortion Figurations, finanziato dal CER, analizzerà le diverse tipologie di comunicazione impiegate per modificare le leggi sull’aborto. Il progetto studierà tre casi di dibattito regionale in coppie di diversi sistemi di diritti umani (Mozambico e Senegal, Polonia e Irlanda, Argentina e Honduras) allo scopo di fornire un modello globale multidimensionale che consenta di elaborarne una chiara raffigurazione.
Obiettivo
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. 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), and 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. 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. 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. We will study the structure, composition, and embedding of arguments, along with group perspectives, emotions, and circles of identification of arguing actors so as to arrive at a heat map that will show the distribution of involvement in argumentative architectures. 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. Finally, we will revisit the role of human rights as a universal toolbox for ideologies in order to plead their conditional rehabilitation.
Campo scientifico
Parole chiave
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Argomento(i)
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsIstituzione ospitante
00-927 WARSZAWA
Polonia