Humanitarianism and suffering : the mobilization of empathy / edited by Richard Ashby Wilson, Richard D. Brown
- Bib ID:
- 4550927
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009
- ix, 318 p. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780521883856
- 0521883857
- Full contents:
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- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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