Leap or loop? : a cognitive perspective on human rights and development

dc.contributor.advisorSano, Hans-Otto
dc.contributor.advisorNielsen, Henrik
dc.contributor.authorRoch, Martin
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-15T12:51:47Z
dc.date.available2020-05-15T12:51:47Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.descriptionSecond semester University: University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen.en_US
dc.description.abstractThe present research embarks on a reflection on the cognitive aspects of human rights and on how it is intertwined with development cooperation. Adopting a systemic perspective, it pairs together the theory of cognitive dissonance with constructivism before arguing that playing out dissonances offers a great potential for change. An outline of development’s cyclical, empirical and diachronic pragmatism and of the human rights normative, linear and synchronic horizon is sketched out before being illustrated by the ‘mutually reinforcing’ convergence of the reform of aid and the emergence of rights-based approaches. I contend that the common learning space shared by both and structured as a network of meanings, allows for articulating systemic antagonisms. It opens up the legalism and the timeframe of human rights and it anchors development in a vision of dignity. The human rights cognitive leap refers to the capacity of human rights cognition, in conjunction with development pragmatism, to transcend respective particulars, to influence the calibration of the homeostasis and be a compass pointing towards dignity.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11825/1356
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.25330/262
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEMA theses 2007/2008;64
dc.subjectconstructivismen_US
dc.subjectdevelopmenten_US
dc.subjecthuman rightsen_US
dc.subjectinternational relationsen_US
dc.subjectphilosophyen_US
dc.subjectsociologyen_US
dc.titleLeap or loop? : a cognitive perspective on human rights and developmenten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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