Human rights as performance: a discourse analysis of the Western-led intervention in Libya (2011)
The Western-led military intervention in Libya of 2011 was carried out in response to the violent uprisings taking place, and on the basis that the Libyan government was denying the Libyan people their basic human rights. Nevertheless, the continued violence, instability and widespread human rights...
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| Formato: | tesis doctoral |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2018 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/16312 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/16312 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | 342.7(043.2) Human rights Military intervention in Libya of 2011 Derechos humanos Intervención militar en Libia de 2011 Guerra 5103.05 Guerra 5906.01 Derechos Humanos |
| Resumo: | The Western-led military intervention in Libya of 2011 was carried out in response to the violent uprisings taking place, and on the basis that the Libyan government was denying the Libyan people their basic human rights. Nevertheless, the continued violence, instability and widespread human rights abuses which has followed the toppling of ex-leader Gaddafi has raised questions about the legitimacy and the wisdom of Western actions. This thesis has sought to investigate the military intervention, with primary focus on the discourses used to give meaning to the events in Libya and the actions carried out by Western governments. This involves an analysis of how the key identities were constituted, and also, crucially, an assessment of the consequences of using one particular discourse-identity-policy cluster as opposed to another. One of the key theoretical premises assumed is that it is ‘performativity’ which best explains how the state constitutes its own identity, and thus the concrete actions taken by it. Finally, in analysing these facets of the intervention, it will become possible to reach conclusions as to what extent Western actions correspond with what David Slater has called the ‘imperiality of power’ (Slater, 2013)... |
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