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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456675603321

Autore

Fassin Didier

Titolo

Humanitarian reason [[electronic resource] ] : a moral history of the present times / / Didier Fassin ; translated by Rachel Gomme

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2012

ISBN

1-283-27857-X

9786613278579

0-520-95048-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GommeRachel

Disciplina

174/.9361

Soggetti

Humanitarian assistance - Moral and ethical aspects

International relief - Moral and ethical aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Politics -- pt. 2. Worlds.

Sommario/riassunto

In the face of the world's disorders, moral concerns have provided a powerful ground for developing international as well as local policies. Didier Fassin draws on case materials from France, South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine to explore the meaning of humanitarianism in the contexts of immigration and asylum, disease and poverty, disaster and war. He traces and analyzes recent shifts in moral and political discourse and practices - what he terms "humanitarian reason"- and shows in vivid examples how humanitarianism is confronted by inequality and violence. Deftly illuminating the tensions and contradictions in humanitarian government, he reveals the ambiguities confronting states and organizations as they struggle to deal with the intolerable. His critique of humanitarian reason, respectful of the participants involved but lucid about the stakes they disregard, offers theoretical and empirical foundations for a political and moral anthropology.