ICS Seminar Series

Narrative and Aesthetic in the Making of Human Rights. This paper focuses on the circulation of stories, images and performances that fuel human rights imaginaries in Argentina. The general assumption guiding the analysis is that medial forms-such as testimonies, life stories, memorials, photographs-do not merely reflect social figurations of human rights; on the contrary, they actively "shape how the social order and its subjects are imagined, articulated and effected" (Slaughter, 2009, p. 11).