Humanitarian Reason A Moral History of the Present

Name: Humanitarian Reason A Moral History of the Present
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ISBN: 9780520271173

ISBN-10: 0520271173

ISBN-13: 9780520271173

Edition: 2011

Authors: Didier Fassin

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List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/3/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
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).



Preface to the English Edition


Acknowledgments


Introduction Humanitarian Government



Politics



Suffering Unveiled Listening to the Excluded and the Marginalized



Pathetic Choice Exposing the Misery of the Poor



Compassion Protocol Legalizing Diseased Undocumented Immigrants



Truth Ordeal Attesting Violence for Asylum Seekers




Ambivalent Hospitality Governing the Unwanted



Worlds



Massacre of the Innocents Representing Childhood in the Age of Aids



Desire for Exception Managing Disaster Victims



Subjectivity without Subjects Reinventing the Figure of the Witness



Hierarchies of Humanity Intervening in International Conflicts



Critique of Humanitarian Reason


Chronology


Notes


Glossary


Bibliography


Index