A world that¡¯s worth fighting for?: The annual Brian Ruane Lecture on Human Rights and Human Rights Education by Dr Audrey Bryan

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Dr Audrey Bryan is an Associate Professor of Sociology in the School of Human Development at Dublin City University¡¯s Institute of Education (DCU IoE).  She is also an Associate Researcher of the Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education, the DCU Anti-Bullying Centre and the Centre for Educational Disadvantage. Her academic background spans the fields of Comparative and International Education, Sociology, Applied Social Research and Psychology. She teaches courses in sociology, childhood studies and research methods from undergraduate to doctoral level at DCU.   She has published nationally and internationally in the areas of climate change education, gender and sexuality studies, racism and anti-racism and global citizenship education. Her current work explores the role of emotion and difficult knowledge in teaching for social justice. She is finalising a manuscript titled Affective Pedagogies, Emotion and Social Justice, which will be published by Routledge in 2021.

In her lecture, Audrey makes the case for a nuanced and expansive conception of human rights that addresses learners¡¯ own involvement in human rights violations and global injustices through their participation and positioning as ¡°implicated subjects¡± (Rothberg, 2019).  Furthermore, she argues that in order to strengthen global solidarity, we need to take seriously the complex emotions and psychological dynamics that lie at the heart of human rights and global citizenship education.