LE3 .A278 2010

2010

Brickner, Rachel

Acadia University

Bachelor of Arts

Honours

Political Science

Politics

This thesis is an examination of how the military government in Argentina used a human rights discourse to justify their ― Dirty War‖ ( 1976- 1983). This thesis shows that through the emergence of specific conditions including the state‘ s creation of a war discourse and a criminal ― Other,‖ and their use of clever political framing, a human rights discourse appears as a justification tool for any violent actions undertaken by a government during a state of war. Therefore, the main argument formulated throughout this thesis is that, through the specific use of political language and framing, human rights discourses can be used in a way which allows them to be easily violated and thus perform the opposite of what they claim, resulting in a further erosion of the language and reality of human rights.

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