Humanitarianism and suffering
Subtitle: the mobilization of empathy
By: edited by Richard Ashby Wilson and Richard D. Brown.
Contributors: Wilson, Richard, 1964-; Brown, Richard D.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780521883856
Subjects: Humanitarianism; Suffering; Empathy
Description: "While humanitarianism is clearly political, Humanitarianism and Suffering addresses the ways in which it is also an ethos embedded in civil society, one that drives secular and religious social and cultural movements, not just legal and political institutions."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Richard Ashby Wilson and Richard D. Brown; title: Histories and contexts; title: Mourning, pity, and the work of narrative in the making of humanity / Thomas W. Laqueur; title: Contemporary humanitarianism : the global and the local contemporary / David P. Forsythe; title: Humanitarian reading / Joseph R. Slaughter; title: Global media and the myths of humanitarian relief : the case of the  2004 Tsunami  / Rony Brauman; title: Hard struggles of doubt : abolitionists and the problem of slave redemption / Margaret M.R. Kellow; title: Starving Armenians : the politics and ideology of humanitarian aid in the first decades of the twentieth century / Flora A. Keshgegian; title: International bystanders to the holocaust and humanitarian intervention / Michael R. Marrus; title: Narratives and redress; title: Victims, relatives and citizens in Argentina : whose voice is legitimate enough? / Elizabeth Jelin; title: Children, suffering and the humanitarian appeal / Laura Suski; title: The physicality of legal consciousness : suffering and the production of credibility in refugee resettlement / Kristin Bergtora Sandvik; title: Can you describe this human rights reports and what they tell us about the human rights movement / Ron Dudai; title: Financial reparations, blood money, and human rights witness testimony : Morocco and Algeria / Susan Slymovics; title: Remnants & remains : narratives of suffering in post-genocide Rwanda's Gacaca Courts / Lars Waldorf.