Nonhuman Humanitarians : Animal Interventions in Global Politics / Benjamin Meiches.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meiches, Benjamin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships.

Humanitarian assistance--Moral and ethical aspects.

Humanitarian assistance.

Animal welfare--Moral and ethical aspects.

Animal welfare.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2023]

Summary:

"Nonhuman Humanitarians explores the role of animals laboring alongside humans in humanitarian operations, generating new ethical possibilities of care and transforming the basic tenets of humanitarianism. Meiches reveals that care, compassion, and creativity are creaturely rather than human and that responses to suffering and injustice do not-and cannot-stop at the boundaries of the human"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : the inhumanity of humanitarianism

1. Dogs and the politics of detecting explosives

2. Heroes, rats, and the predicament of justice

3. The gift of milk and the contingency of hunger

4. Humanitarian politics on a multispecies planet.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Meiches, Benjamin Nonhuman Humanitarians

ISBN:

9781452969442

1452969442

9781452969435

1452969434

OCLC:

1376934713