Recurrent failings of medical humanitarianism: intractable, ignored, or just exaggerated?
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DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(17)31277-1
Abstract: Humanitarian health workers operate in dangerous and uncertain contexts, in which mistakes and failures are common, often have severe consequences, and are regularly repeated, despite being documented by many reviews. This Series paper aims to… read more here.
Keywords: humanitarianism; recurrent failings; humanitarianism intractable; failings medical ... See more keywords
‘We Must Send a Gift Worthy of India and the Congress!’ War and political humanitarianism in late colonial South Asia*
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DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x16000950
Abstract: Abstract The interwar period has recently been described as a highly internationalist one in South Asia, as a series of distinct internationalisms—communist, anarchist, social scientific, socialist, literary, and aesthetic 1 —took shape. At the same… read more here.
Keywords: humanitarianism; political humanitarianism; south asia; war ... See more keywords
THE ROMANTIC SOCIALIST ORIGINS OF HUMANITARIANISM
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DOI: 10.1017/s1479244318000550
Abstract: “Humanitarian” (humanitaire) came into use in French contemporaneously with the emergence of romantic socialism, and in the context of the rebuilding of post-revolutionary French society and its overseas empire beginning in the 1830s. This article… read more here.
Keywords: romantic socialist; socialist origins; origins humanitarianism; humanitarianism ... See more keywords
Speaking with vampires and angels: the ambivalent afterlives of Christian humanitarianism in rural Zambia
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DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2020.1711749
Abstract: ABSTRACT During the course of fieldwork at a Christian mission hospital in southern Zambia, I discovered that vernacular healers in the surrounding rural area were being visited by ‘angel spirits’ (bangelo) who offered them efficacious… read more here.
Keywords: humanitarianism; zambia; humanitarian biomedicine; speaking vampires ... See more keywords
After liberal world order
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DOI: 10.1093/ia/iix234
Abstract: In recent years claims about the end times of the liberal world order have gathered force, with the talk of order giving way to disruption. While there are different accounts of these disruptive dynamics and… read more here.
Keywords: world order; world; humanitarianism; liberal world ... See more keywords
New Frontiers of Philanthro‐capitalism: Digital Technologies and Humanitarianism
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DOI: 10.1111/anti.12534
Abstract: Digital technologies that allow large numbers of laypeople to contribute to humanitarian action facilitate the deepening adoption and adaptation of private-sector logics and rationalities in humanitarianism. This is increasingly taking place through philanthro-capitalism, a process… read more here.
Keywords: digital technologies; philanthro capitalism; capitalism digital; humanitarianism ... See more keywords
Countering the Asylum Paradox Through Strategic Humanitarianism: Evidence from Safe Passage Activism in Germany
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DOI: 10.1177/0896920520932215
Abstract: This paper inquires the moral and political ambivalences of migrant support located between contentious politics and humanitarian aid. Comparing Save Me and Seebrücke, two cases of pro-migrant activism in Germany claiming the safe passage of… read more here.
Keywords: activism germany; strategic humanitarianism; humanitarianism; safe passage ... See more keywords
Penal humanitarianism beyond the nation state: An analysis of international criminal justice
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DOI: 10.1177/1362480618806917
Abstract: In a recent account of border control, Mary Bosworth introduces the notion of ‘penal humanitarianism’ to describe how humanitarianism enables penal power to move beyond the nation state. Based on a study of international criminal… read more here.
Keywords: state; humanitarianism; nation state; international criminal ... See more keywords