The Politics of Humanity
a problem primarily for humanitarians.^12 Brauman’s point is an important one, and warns us against the overzealous deployment o ...
vocabulary of emergency may not describe everything “bad” about the situation, for instance that the people in question might ha ...
example, the idea of radical, involuntary shifts in people’s ability to nourish themselves or their families. There is clearly a ...
response by professional humanitarians, but that does not mean that it is adequately described by the humanitarian actions that ...
It frames the problem and defines response, rights and therefore responsibilities. It defines whether a medical or humanitarian ...
inadequate in the face of suffering, they simultaneously want to shape politics in order to combat the causes of that suffering ...
political responsibility. In such contexts, it is human solidarity that demands a project of defining the unacceptable. Humanita ...
The second observation, which will be crucial for what follows, is that Orbinski and Brauman together summarise a strong case fo ...
II Cruelty and Innocence The theme of unacceptable suffering has been taken up by Rieff, who argues that humanitarianism “define ...
There is something so distinctive about the deliberate and careful infliction of suffering described by Orbinski, and indeed in ...
instance, the discovery of particular practices within slavery, such as the Middle Passage, by the public at large served to del ...
possibilities of human solidarity and on human rights.^39 Although he explicitly rejects pinning any definitive account to any k ...
Rorty’s move as primarily methodological for our purposes, it becomes rather productive. Seeing key markers of humanitarianism, ...
Building on this, we can recognise the potential of discussions about humanitarianism, and about core concepts within them, such ...
appears to open up the possibility of not judging the victim. If a common humanity is to be valued, it seems more coherent to co ...
In the refugee camps in Zaire and Tanzania to which Hutus, including many génocidaires, fled in the aftermath of the Rwandan gen ...
understanding of suffering as totally detached from its human causes. But the focus on the human agency behind human suffering n ...
But he tells us little about dynamic character of the distinction between human and inhuman, or of the processes which shape eac ...
the Holocaust with other crimes against humanity, we find this process of dehumanisation repeated in Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda an ...
to function. It also contains its own account of human nature, of what we might be willing to do to each other by way of cruelty ...
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