Humanitarian Reason
A Moral History of the Present
In the face of the world's disorders, moral concerns have provided a powerful ground for developing international as well as local policies. Didier Fassin draws on case materials from France, South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine to explore the meaning of humanitarianism in the contexts of immigration and asylum, disease and poverty, disaster and war. He traces and analyzes recent shifts in moral and political discourse and practices - what he terms humanitarian reason- and shows in vivid examples how humanitarianism is confronted by inequality and violence. Deftly illuminating the tensions and contradictions in humanitarian government, he r…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-95048-1
- EAN: 9780520950481
- Produktnummer: 21596022
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'699 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
Über den Autor
Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of When Bodies Remember: Experiences of AIDS in South Africa (UC Press) and coauthor of The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood.
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