Branding Humanity : Competing Narratives of Rights, Violence, and Global Citizenship / Amal Hassan Fadlalla.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fadlalla, Amal Hassan, Author.

Series:

Stanford studies in human rights.

Stanford Studies in Human Rights

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Sudan--Public opinion.

Human rights.

Ethnic conflict--Sudan--Public opinion.

Ethnic conflict.

Sudan--History--Darfur Conflict, 2003---Press coverage--United States.

Sudan.

Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005--Press coverage--United States.

Sudan--History--Darfur Conflict, 2003---Foreign public opinion, American.

Sudan--History--Civil War, 1983-2005--Foreign public opinion, American.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Save Darfur movement gained an international following, garnering widespread international attention to this remote Sudanese territory. Celebrities and other notable public figures participated in human rights campaigns to combat violence in the region. But how do local activists and those throughout the Sudanese diaspora in the United States situate their own notions of rights, nationalism, and identity? Based on interviews with Sudanese social actors, activists, and their allies in the United States, the Sudan, and online, Branding Humanity traces the global story of violence and the remaking of Sudanese identities. Amal Hassan Fadlalla examines how activists contest, reshape, and reclaim the stories of violence emerging from the Sudan and their identities as migrants. Fadlalla charts the clash and friction of the master-narratives and counter-narratives circulated and mobilized by competing social and political actors negotiating social exclusion and inclusion through their own identity politics and predicament of exile. In exploring the varied and individual experiences of Sudanese activists and allies, Branding Humanity helps us see beyond the oft-monolithic international branding of conflict. Fadlalla asks readers to consider how national and transnational debates about violence circulate, shape, and re-territorialize ethnic identities, disrupt meanings of national belonging, and rearticulate notions of solidarity and global affiliations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Violence Narratives and the Cultural Politics of Identity

Chapter One. Performing Humanity

Chapter Two. Humanitarian Publics

Chapter Three. Diaspora as Counter-Response

Chapter Four. Contested Borders of Inhumanity

Chapter Five. Routing Humanitarian Visibilities

Toward an Inclusive Humanist Future

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781503607279

1503607275

OCLC:

1178769836