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Humanitarianism and suffering : the mobilization of empathy / edited by Richard Ashby Wilson, Richard D. Brown.

Contributor(s): Wilson, Richard 1964- | Brown, Richard D.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009Description: ix, 318 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780521883856 (hardback); 0521883857 (hardback).Subject(s): Humanitarianism | Suffering | EmpathyDDC classification: 361.2 Online resources: Table of contents only
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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