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Humanitarian Reason : a Moral History of the Present.

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 imm...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fassin, Didier
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Contents; Preface to the English Edition; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Humanitarian Government; PART I. POLITICS; 1. Suffering Unveiled Listening to the Excluded and the Marginalized; 2. Pathetic Choice Exposing the Misery of the Poor; 3. Compassion Protocol Legalizing Diseased Undocumented Immigrants; 4. Truth Ordeal Attesting Violence for Asylum Seekers; LIMEN. FRONTIERS; 5. Ambivalent Hospitality Governing the Unwanted; PART II. WORLDS; 6. Massacre of the Innocents Representing Childhood in the Age of AIDS; 7. Desire for Exception Managing Disaster Victims. 
505 8 |a 8. Subjectivity without Subjects Reinventing the Figure of the Witness9. Hierarchies of Humanity Intervening in International Conflicts; Conclusion: Critique of Humanitarian Reason; Chronology; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z. 
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