, European citizens’ movements have mobilized resources to prevent the death of people crossing the Mediterranean. Initiatives like Alarm Phone, Open Arms, Sea Watch, and SOS MEDITERRANEE seem to represent a politicized humanitarianism for the network age
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Migration, Humanitarianism, and the Politics of Knowledge
An Interview with Juliano Fiori
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Juliano Fiori
In Migration and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2020
- Article Type:
- Discussion
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- 180–189 (10 total)
Vernacular Humanitarianisms
An Introduction
Čarna Brković
civic right. The kind of humanitarian imaginary and practice that underlies this petition is different from that of ‘transnational humanitarianism’ ( Ticktin 2014 ) and its mobile sovereignty ( Pandolfi 2008 ), which jumps from one place to another
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 Mar 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 1–13 (13 total)
Tom Widger
universal condition for and experience of mental health, government officials advocated for the establishment of support services developed from vernacular traditions, including Ayurveda and Buddhism. Such use of a rhetoric of ‘universal’ humanitarianism
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 Mar 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 67–84 (18 total)
Neutrality in foreign aid
Shifting contexts, shifting meanings—examples from South Sudan
Elżbieta Drążkiewicz
-Roazen 1998 ; Fassin 2007 ). Medical assistance is just one element of its extensive repertoire. Finally, the separation of humanitarianism from development has progressively dissolved ( Feldman 2011 ; Slim 2000 ). Amid this changing global political
Welcoming Acts
Temporality and Affect among Volunteer Humanitarians in the UK and USA
Rachel Humphris and Kristin Elizabeth Yarris
acts, we situate this article within critical studies of humanitarianism and cultural studies of affect politics. With anthropologists of humanitarianism ( Fassin 2011 ; Ticktin 2014 ), we develop a critique of volunteer-based humanitarian efforts to
In Migration and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2022
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 75–89 (15 total)
‘Every Person Counts’
The Problem of Scale in Everyday Humanitarianism
Anne-Meike Fechter
everyday humanitarians in Cambodia, their response to this situation consists of making and deploying their own scales, such as that of the single individual. Adopting a scalar approach to humanitarianism more generally avoids dismissing such efforts as
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
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- 01 Mar 2023
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 14–29 (16 total)
Antonio De Lauri
The limits and consequences of humanitarian military operations continue to be major issues in Western public debates on global security, democracy and human rights. This article focuses on the intersection of war and humanitarianism, situating the study of humanitarian militarism within a European context in which a reinvigorated proliferation of the military ethos coexists with ongoing transformations in European military culture and a resurgence of nation‐state ideologies. Building on a reflection of the historical consolidation of humanitarian militarism and interviews conducted with soldiers, the paper explores the politics of humanity produced by humanitarian militarism.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 Feb 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 84–99 (15 total)
Faisal Devji
A global society has come into being, but as yet it possesses no political institutions proper to its name. I will make the case that new forms of militancy, like that of al-Qaeda, achieve meaning in this institutional vacuum while representing, in their own way, the search for a global politics. From environmentalism to pacifism, such a worldwide politics can only be one that takes humanity itself as its object. This article aims to show that militant practices are informed by the same search that animates humanitarianism, which has become the global aim and signature of all politics today.
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Mar 2009
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 173–192 (20 total)
“Before the War, Life Was Much Brighter and Happier than Today”
Letters from French War Orphans, 1915–1922
Bethany S. Keenan
help my little ones?’” 111 In this way, humanitarianism became a type of cultural diplomacy, linking the two countries together via aid, and the fundraising effort the counterpart of military action. Orphan letters mirrored this, conceptualizing
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2020
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- Research Article
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- 55–77 (23 total)
Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
That philanthropy perpetuates the conditions that cause inequality is an old argument shared by thinkers such as Karl Marx, Oscar Wilde and Slavoj Žižek. I recorded variations of the same argument in local conversations regarding growing humanitarian concern in austerity‐ridden Greece. Local critiques of the efficacy of humanitarianism, which I explore here ethnographically, bring to the fore two parallel possibilities engendered by the ‘humanitarian face’ of solidarity initiatives: first, their empowering potential (where solidarity initiatives enhance local social awareness), and second, the de‐politicisation of the crisis (a liability that stems from the effectiveness of humanitarianism in ameliorating only temporarily the superficial consequences of the crisis). These two possibilities – which I treat as simultaneous and interrelated – can help us appreciate the complexity and social embeddedness of humanitarian solidarity in times of austerity.
In Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale
- Published (Print):
- 01 May 2016
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 167–184 (17 total)