LEADER 03763nam 2200721 a 450 001 9910811038903321 005 20230721012018.0 010 $a9786612964466 010 $a1-282-96446-1 010 $a1-4008-3321-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400833214 035 $a(CKB)2550000001251847 035 $a(EBL)646765 035 $a(OCoLC)701704270 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000472810 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11315098 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000472810 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10433658 035 $a(PQKB)11297769 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC646765 035 $a(OCoLC)703155073 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36723 035 $a(DE-B1597)446652 035 $a(OCoLC)979632166 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400833214 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL646765 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10442046 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL296446 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001251847 100 $a20080904d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe rights of spring $ea memoir of innocence abroad /$fDavid Kennedy 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N. J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (118 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-14138-X 311 $a0-691-14137-1 327 $aIntroduction -- Thinking ahead -- Crossing over -- Professional roles -- Direct examination : telling Ana's story -- Cross-examination : the doctor's tale -- The men of libertad -- Transition : preparing to act -- A moment of advocacy -- The aftermath. 330 $aAna reported being blindfolded, doused in cold water. She was tied to a metal frame; electrodes were fastened to her body. Someone cranked a hand-operated generator. One spring more than twenty years ago, David Kennedy visited Ana in an Uruguayan prison as part of the first wave of humanitarian activists to take the fight for human rights to the very sites where atrocities were committed. Kennedy was eager to learn what human rights workers could do, idealistic about changing the world and helping people like Ana. But he also had doubts. What could activists really change? Was there something unseemly about humanitarians from wealthy countries flitting into dictatorships, presenting themselves as white knights, and taking in the tourist sites before flying home? Kennedy wrote up a memoir of his hopes and doubts on that trip to Uruguay and combines it here with reflections on what has happened to the world of international humanitarianism since. Now bureaucratized, naming and shaming from a great height in big-city office towers, human rights workers have achieved positions of formidable power. They have done much good. But the moral ambiguity of their work and questions about whether they can sometimes cause real harm endure. Kennedy tackles those questions here with his trademark combination of narrative drive and unflinching honesty. This is a powerful and disturbing tale of the bright sides and the dark sides of the humanitarian world built by good intentions. 606 $aHuman rights 606 $aHuman rights advocacy 606 $aHuman rights workers 606 $aHuman rights$zUruguay 606 $aPolitical prisoners$zUruguay 615 0$aHuman rights. 615 0$aHuman rights advocacy. 615 0$aHuman rights workers. 615 0$aHuman rights 615 0$aPolitical prisoners 676 $a341.4/8 700 $aKennedy$b David$f1954-$0623466 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910811038903321 996 $aThe rights of spring$94041584 997 $aUNINA