Humanitarian Reason A Moral History of the Present 1st Edition by Didier Fassin ISBN 978-0520271173 0520271173

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ISBN 10:  0520271173

ISBN 13: 978-0520271173

Author:  Didier Fassin

In the face of the world’s disorders, moral concerns have provided a powerful ground for developing international as well as local policies. Didier Fassin draws on case materials from France, South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine to explore the meaning of humanitarianism in the contexts of immigration and asylum, disease and poverty, disaster and war. He traces and analyzes recent shifts in moral and political discourse and practices ― what he terms “humanitarian reason”― and shows in vivid examples how humanitarianism is confronted by inequality and violence. Deftly illuminating the tensions and contradictions in humanitarian government, he reveals the ambiguities confronting states and organizations as they struggle to deal with the intolerable. His critique of humanitarian reason, respectful of the participants involved but lucid about the stakes they disregard, offers theoretical and empirical foundations for a political and moral anthropology.

Table of contents: 

PART I. POLITICS

Suffering Unveiled: Listening to the Excluded and the Marginalized

Pathetic Choice: Exposing the Misery of the Poor

Compassion Protocol: Legalizing Diseased Undocumented Immigrants

Truth Ordeal: Attesting Violence for Asylum Seekers

LIMEN: FRONTIERS

Ambivalent Hospitality: Governing the Unwanted

PART II. WORLDS

Massacre of the Innocents: Representing Childhood in the Age of AIDS

Desire for Exception: Managing Disaster Victims

Subjectivity without Subjects: Reinventing the Figure of the Witness

Hierarchies of Humanity: Intervening in International Conflicts

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