The Politics of Humanity
suffering bears no relationship to my understanding of my own humanity, it is ultimately a denial of the possibility of a common ...
terms a “pornography of pain” since its inception.^54 The eagerness of crowds to attend punishments and executions is a long-sta ...
Stan Cohen focuses on the many modes and layers of denial that characterise our engagement with the suffering around us in every ...
necessarily translate into concern for actually–existing humans. We can use a limited engagement with humanitarian concerns as a ...
visions of justice. Appealing to the humanitarian impulse usually now involves complex processes of mediation. As Lilie Chouliar ...
transport of goods”.^69 Such images were central to the re-imagining and redefining of people’s conceptualisation of slaves as h ...
aiming to mobilise humanitarian action and overcome indifference to suffering, above and beyond the problems discussed in the pr ...
through which spatial distances between self/other, civilized/barbaric, North/South, developed/underdeveloped are produced and m ...
conversation collide. Is it really possible to engage people’s concern with, say, the suffering of women in Congo, and not promo ...
codes of conduct such as the Sphere Projects Humanitarian Charter and Minimum Standards in Disaster Response.^84 She concludes t ...
omitted, even in discussions about the problems of representation.^89 Thomas Laqueur points out that historically, “[naming] is ...
But we still face the problem of moving from emotional reaction to political action, or rather of creating politicised emotions. ...
their acceptance of obligations to a universal moral community, but rather on their parochial identities as Protestant Dissenter ...
building and election fighting, is not a problem to be solved, but a constitutive context of the possibility of humanitarianism ...
undermine the whole enterprise, or see a deep need for rule-corrected solidarity. The issue of selectivity is also a major conce ...
money than it could usefully spend.^106 For Brauman, since “[mass] solidarity is not based on reasoning alone” (as I outlined ab ...
thing we do (especially the hypocrisy of liberals).^110 For Brown, it is important to recognise that not all situations lend the ...
humanitarian impulse effectively, meaningful links to the self-perception of individuals and groups need to be created (and that ...
will almost always rear its head again in practical contexts. The dilemma was already recognised by Dunant: Then you find yourse ...
Once again the trope of triage comes up as a way to suggest that our solidarity is related to our sense of the possible.^120 Per ...
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