The Centre for Fundamental Rights invites you to a launch event for a special issue of the International Journal of Human Rights
Human rights set standards for states to adhere to, but they also have broader effects: by framing societal issues in certain ways, they influence what we think of as human rights issues, what the underlying realities are, and what we take to be problems as well as their potential solutions. To adequately grasp the role of the European Court of Human Rights – and the Council of Europe more broadly – the frames of European human rights need to be taken into account.
In a time of rising authoritarianism and amidst mounting state backlash towards the Court, especially for its migration and climate-related case-law, it becomes all the more urgent to analyse and critique its role not only with regard to the results of its case-law, but also the frames it deploys and the realities and normativities it constructs in doing so.
This event asks how Europe is framed in human rights, how human rights are framed in Europe, and with what discursive and legal consequences. It builds on a recent special issue entitled “Framing Human Rights: Authoritarianism, Migration, and Climate Change in the Council of Europe” and published in the International Journal of Human Rights. The special issue’s editors, Esra Demir-Gürsel, Jens T. Theilen, and Başak Çalı, will be joined by Vandita Khanna to discuss their experiences working with frame analysis and its potential for understanding and critically analysing European human rights, particularly in the current moment of widespread backlash. As in the special issue, they will focus on the core themes of authoritarianism, migration, and climate change, but also discuss the methodological potential of frame analysis for human rights scholarship more broadly.
The special issue “Framing Human Rights: Authoritarianism, Migration, and Climate Change in the Council of Europe” is available open access in the International Journal of Human Rights. It includes an in-depth introduction to frame analysis by the editors, Esra Demir-Gürsel, Jens T. Theilen, and Başak Çalı (available here), as well as articles by Vandita Khanna, Nurbanu Hayır, Başak Çalı, Corina Heri, Esra Demir-Gürsel, and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín. The special issue’s editors are also the principal investigators of a project on the frames of European human rights funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
Prior registration is required. Registered attendees will receive the dial-in details prior to the event. Please register here.
