In the name of humanity : the government of threat and care /

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Collection of essays that consider how humanity--as a social, ethical, and political category--is produced through particular governing techniques and in turn gives rise to new forms of government.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Feldman, Ilana, 1969-, Ticktin, Miriam Iris
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Series:e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Subjects:
Wohlfahrt, ...
Internationaler Gerichtshof
Humanity.
Political ethics.
Philosophy.
Philosophy & Religion.
Ethics.
Humanité (Morale)
Morale politique.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Politische Anthropologie
Menschenrechtspolitik
Nichtstaatliche Organisation
Menschenrecht
Humanität
Sozialwissenschaftler
Humanitarisme.
Brott mot mänskligheten.
Politisk etik.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: government and humanity / Ilana Feldman and Miriam Ticktin
  • When humanity sits in judgment : crimes against humanity and the conundrum of race and ethnicity at the international criminal tribunal for Rwanda / Richard Ashby Wilson
  • Children, humanity, and the infantilization of peace / Liisa Malkki
  • Narrative, humanity, and patrimony in an equatorial African forest / Rebecca Hardin
  • Inhumanitas : political speciation, animality, natality, defacement / Allen Feldman
  • Medication is me now? : human values and political life in the wake of global AIDS treatment / João Biehl
  • Environment, community, government / Arun Agrawal
  • The mortality effect : counting the dead in the cancer trial / S. Lochlann Jain
  • Inequality of lives, hierarchies of humanity : moral commitments and ethical dilemmas of humanitarianism / Didier Fassin
  • The politics of experimentality / Adriana Petryna
  • Stealth nature : biomimesis and the weaponization of life / Charles Zerner.

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