The Politics of Humanity
benefits of colonialism. Craig Calhoun notes that more generally, "Colonialism itself was often understood (with no cynicism) as ...
against cruelty in the expansion of existing particularist, indeed parochial, identifications.^69 Consider, first, those Danes a ...
can agree with Brauman that humanitarians are those who believe that humans are not made to suffer, but we need to recognise the ...
understandable causal pattern, such as characterises complex emergencies or apparently intractable civil conflicts, we neglect s ...
or crisis have serious practical benefits, but leave unanswered a wider set of questions about why they are justified, and the l ...
3. Mobilising the Humanitarian Impulse................................................................................ Any conce ...
justice, often ignore the conditions that make such action possible or likely, at both individual and collective level. Where su ...
importantly for themselves and for leading policymakers, but also on a much wider scale, among the individuals and communities w ...
attempts to escape the contingencies of emotion. The phrase endures because it captures several important themes that lie at the ...
So how is humanitarian concern experienced? What emotional capacities underpin the possibility of humanitarian impulses? The pre ...
reason trump all else in leading to humanitarian action. Rorty in particular cautions that the flawed “idea that reason is ‘stro ...
study across the social and natural sciences.^14 As Lynn Hunt notes, empathy is a concept broadly equivalent to the Enlightenmen ...
then we would expect to find them buttressing a theory of political humanitarianism.^19 If humanity comes into focus in large pa ...
automatically lead to a glorification of its cause, which is the suffering of others.^21 Through this kind of humanitarian conce ...
would seem a better starting point, enabling as it can devices like Smith’s impartial spectator. A spectrum of affective respons ...
The challenge here is similar to that acknowledged in Martha Nussbaum’s influential plea for a cosmopolitan education to make th ...
self-image will be compromised if they do not.^29 This is arguably to do with the fact that, as Stan Cohen argues, shame, unlike ...
ignorance”.^36 At the heart of the battle to engage the human capacity for empathy is a public and private negotiation of the kn ...
knowledge have value not only instrumentally but also intrinsically.^40 Interestingly, David Rieff, close to the MSF understandi ...
suffering is bleak: a tale of people “burned out and listless as they hunched over at hotel bars”.^46 The key point here is that ...
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