Contemporary States of Emergency The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions

Name: Contemporary States of Emergency The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions
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ISBN: 9781935408017

ISBN-10: 1935408011

ISBN-13: 9781935408017

Edition: 2010

Authors: Didier Fassin, Mariella Pandolfi

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From natural disaster areas to zones of political conflict around the world, a newlogic of intervention combines military action and humanitarian aid, conflates moral imperatives andpolitical arguments, and confuses the concepts of legitimacy and legality. The mandate to protecthuman lives--however and wherever endangered--has given rise to a new form of humanitariangovernment that moves from one crisis to the next, applying the same battery of technical expertise(from military logistics to epidemiological risk management to the latest social scientific toolsfor "good governance") and reducing people with particular histories and hopes to merelives to be rescued. This book explores these…

Book details

List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Zone Books
Publication date: 2/8/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 408
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.94" long x 1.09" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Didier Fassinis the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author ofWhen Bodies Remember: Experiences of AIDS in South Africa(UC Press).

Mariella Pandolfi is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Montreal.