Humanitarianism and Human Rights - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humanitarianism and Human Rights write by Michael N. Barnett. This book was released on 2020-10-15. Humanitarianism and Human Rights available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the fluctuating relationship between human rights and humanitarianism and the changing nature of the politics and practices of humanity.
Humanitarianism in the Modern World
Humanitarianism in the Modern World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humanitarianism in the Modern World write by Norbert Götz. This book was released on 2020-07-23. Humanitarianism in the Modern World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fresh look at two centuries of humanitarian history through a moral economy approach focusing on appeals, allocation, and accounting.
Humanitarianism and Media
Humanitarianism and Media - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humanitarianism and Media write by Johannes Paulmann. This book was released on 2018-12-17. Humanitarianism and Media available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From Christian missionary publications to the media strategies employed by today’s NGOs, this interdisciplinary collection explores the entangled histories of humanitarianism and media. It traces the emergence of humanitarian imagery in the West and investigates how the meanings of suffering and aid have been constructed in a period of evolving mass communication, demonstrating the extent to which many seemingly new phenomena in fact have long historical legacies. Ultimately, the critical histories collected here help to challenge existing asymmetries and help those who advocate a new cosmopolitan consciousness recognizing the dignity and rights of others.
Humanitarianism
Humanitarianism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Humanitarianism write by Tim Allen. This book was released on 2018-06-27. Humanitarianism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The field of humanitarianism is characterised by profound uncertainty, by a constant need to respond to the unpredictable, and by concepts and practices that often defy simple or straightforward explanation. Humanitarians often find themselves not just engaged in the pursuit of effective action, but also in a quest for meaning. That is the starting point for this book. Humanitarian action has in recent years confronted geopolitical challenges that have upended much of its conventional modus operandi and presented threats to its foundational assumptions and legal frameworks. The critical interrogation of the purpose, practice and future of humanitarian action has yielded a rich new field of enquiry, humanitarian studies, and many thoughtful books, articles and reports. So, the question arose as to the most useful way to provide a critical overview that might serve to bring some definitional clarity as well as analytical rigor to the waves of critique and shifting sands of humanitarian action. Humanitarianism: A Dictionary of Concepts provides an authoritative analysis that attempts to rethink, rather than merely problematize or define the issues at stake in contemporary humanitarian debates. It is an important moment to do so. Just about every tenet of humanitarianism is currently open to question as never before.
Disquieting Gifts
Disquieting Gifts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Disquieting Gifts write by Erica Bornstein. This book was released on 2012-05-30. Disquieting Gifts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “[This] artful ethnography . . . challenges us to reconsider both what giving looks like, and the relational possibilities of anthropological practice itself.” —Jocelyn L. Chua, American Ethnologist While most people would not consider sponsoring an orphan’s education to be in the same category as international humanitarian aid, both acts are linked by the desire to give. Many studies focus on the outcomes of humanitarian work, but the impulses that inspire people to engage in the first place receive less attention. Disquieting Gifts takes a close look at people working on humanitarian projects in New Delhi to explore why they engage in philanthropic work, what humanitarianism looks like to them, and the ethical and political tangles they encounter. Motivated by debates surrounding Marcel Mauss’s The Gift, Bornstein investigates specific cases of people engaged in humanitarian work to reveal different perceptions of assistance to strangers versus assistance to kin, how the impulse to give to others in distress is tempered by its regulation, suspicions about recipient suitability, and why the figure of the orphan is so valuable in humanitarian discourse. The book also focuses on vital humanitarian efforts that often go undocumented and ignored and explores the role of empathy in humanitarian work. “Bornstein . . . delineate[s] a ‘global economy of giving’ while questioning Western preconceptions about humanitarianism.” —Jonathan Benthall, Times Literary Supplement “Insightful and beautifully written . . . accessible and engaging.” —Pierre Minn, Social Anthropology “Conveys deep insights into international and intra-Indian charity and volunteering.” —Jonathan Benthall, University College London “Reveals the complexity of the contemporary moral economies of the gift.” —Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study, author of Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present
