The novel coronavirus pandemic is throwing into relief traditional notions and rhetorics of witness, visibility, recognition, and violence in human rights discourse This essay articulates the ways in which the current pandemic is being framed rhe-torically as a spectacular war, using rhetoric that obfuscates the structural violations that leads to the virus disproportionately impacting the precarious It argues for a reframing of traditional paradigms of representation, recognition, and resistance toward a notion of everyday violence that accounts for the accumulation of struc-tural and material conditions of precarity as a human rights violation © 2020 Penn State University Press All rights reserved
Novel violence