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Humanitarianism and suffering : the mobilization of empathy
- Title
- Humanitarianism and suffering : the mobilization of empathy / edited by Richard Ashby Wilson, Richard D. Brown.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- ix, 318 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 08-8253
- ISBN
- 9780521883856 (hardback)
- 0521883857 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2008023734
- OCLC
- 227031819
- Title
- Humanitarianism and suffering : the mobilization of empathy / edited by Richard Ashby Wilson, Richard D. Brown.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Wilson, Richard, 1964-Brown, Richard D.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 08-8253