Humanitarianism and suffering :
Humanitarianism and suffering : the mobilization of empathy /
edited by Richard Ashby Wilson, Richard D. Brown.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- ix, 318 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Richard Ashby Wilson and Richard D. Brown -- Histories and contexts -- Mourning, pity, and the work of narrative in the making of "humanity" / Thomas W. Laqueur -- Contemporary humanitarianism : the global and the local / David P. Forsythe -- Humanitarian reading / Joseph R. Slaughter -- Global media and the myths of humanitarian relief : the case of the 2004 Tsunami / Rony Brauman -- Hard struggles of doubt : abolitionists and the problem of slave redemption / Margaret M.R. Kellow -- "Starving Armenians" : the politics and ideology of humanitarian aid in the first decades of the twentieth century / Flora A. Keshgegian -- International bystanders to the Holocaust and humanitarian intervention / Michael R. Marrus -- Narratives and redress -- Victims, relatives, and citizens in Argentina : whose voice is legitimate enough? / Elizabeth Jelin -- Children, suffering, and the humanitarian appeal / Laura Suski -- The physicality of legal consciousness : suffering and the production of credibility in refugee resettlement / Kristin Bergtora Sandvik -- "Can you describe this?" : human rights reports and what they tell us about the human rights movement / Ron Dudai -- Financial reparations, blood money, and human rights witness testimony : Morocco and Algeria / Susan Slymovics -- Remnants and remains : narratives of suffering in post-genocide Rwanda's Gacaca courts / Lars Waldorf.
9780521883856 (hardback) 0521883857 (hardback)
2008023734
Humanitarianism.
Suffering.
Empathy.
BJ1475.3 / .H86 2009
361.2
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Richard Ashby Wilson and Richard D. Brown -- Histories and contexts -- Mourning, pity, and the work of narrative in the making of "humanity" / Thomas W. Laqueur -- Contemporary humanitarianism : the global and the local / David P. Forsythe -- Humanitarian reading / Joseph R. Slaughter -- Global media and the myths of humanitarian relief : the case of the 2004 Tsunami / Rony Brauman -- Hard struggles of doubt : abolitionists and the problem of slave redemption / Margaret M.R. Kellow -- "Starving Armenians" : the politics and ideology of humanitarian aid in the first decades of the twentieth century / Flora A. Keshgegian -- International bystanders to the Holocaust and humanitarian intervention / Michael R. Marrus -- Narratives and redress -- Victims, relatives, and citizens in Argentina : whose voice is legitimate enough? / Elizabeth Jelin -- Children, suffering, and the humanitarian appeal / Laura Suski -- The physicality of legal consciousness : suffering and the production of credibility in refugee resettlement / Kristin Bergtora Sandvik -- "Can you describe this?" : human rights reports and what they tell us about the human rights movement / Ron Dudai -- Financial reparations, blood money, and human rights witness testimony : Morocco and Algeria / Susan Slymovics -- Remnants and remains : narratives of suffering in post-genocide Rwanda's Gacaca courts / Lars Waldorf.
9780521883856 (hardback) 0521883857 (hardback)
2008023734
Humanitarianism.
Suffering.
Empathy.
BJ1475.3 / .H86 2009
361.2