Forces of compassion : humanitarianism between ethics and politics / edited by Erica Bornstein and Peter Redfield
- Published
- Santa Fe, N.M. : School for Advanced Research Press, 2011.
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Physical Description
- xi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Additional Creators
- Bornstein, Erica, 1963- and Redfield, Peter, 1965-
- Series
- Contents
- An introduction to the anthropology of humanitarianism / Peter Redfield and Erica Bornstein -- Noli me tangere : the moral untouchability of humanitarianism / Didier Fassin -- The impossible problem of neutrality / Peter Redfield -- The anthropologist and his poor / Harri Englund -- Islamic humanitarianism in adversarial context / Jonathan Benthall -- The value of orphans / Erica Bornstein -- Screams, cries, and whispers : traveling heroin therapeutics and humanitarian aid in post-socialist China / Sandra Teresa Hyde -- From redundancy to recognition : transnational humanitarianism and the production of nonmoderns / Miriam Ticktin -- The humanitarian circuit : relief work, development assistance, and CARE in Gaza, 1955-67 / Ilana Feldman -- Humanitarianism and its discontents / Mariella Pandolfi -- Afterword : Humanitarianism and the scale of disaster.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781934691403 (alk. paper)
1934691402 (alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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