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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, Richard, 1964-

Brown, Richard D.

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarianism.

Suffering.

Empathy.

Physical Description:

ix, 318 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780521883856

0521883857

OCLC:

227031819