... The Red Cross aid workers often faced “impossible situations” in their missions abroad. Such situations—affectively and ethically impossible somehow, impasses from which there is no obvious good way forward—also arise in anthropological research. Like anthropologists, aid workers are sometimes...

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... a literary genealogy of wartime from the Napoleonic era to the present and illuminates the aesthetic purchase of war (and its technologies) as a shaper of distinct literary imaginaries: the sentimental, the humanitarian, the panoptic, and the spectacular. mediated wars visual activism humanitarian...

... a literary genealogy of wartime from the Napoleonic era to the present and illuminates the aesthetic purchase of war (and its technologies) as a shaper of distinct literary imaginaries: the sentimental, the humanitarian, the panoptic, and the spectacular. mediated wars visual activism humanitarian...

... This chapter analyzes moral economies, forms of social imagination, techniques of enchantment, and spurs to affect commonly belittled, easily dismissed, yet pervasive in/around humanitarian practices. Humanitarian object-beings like Trauma Teddies and Aid Bunnies combine humanity and animality...

...: as embodiments of a basic human goodness, as sufferers, as seers of truth, as ambassadors of peace, and as embodiments of the future. These registers depend on each other for their affective and ritual power, and catalyze many practices including humanitarian fundraising, sponsoring children, and knitting...

... and the humanitarian imperialism of the Northern Territory Emergency Response (NTER) as based on “affective facts” (Massumi) and a new body politic of “feeling political together” (Berlant). It tracks how literacy has become a major humanitarian target and a national campaign to redress (purported) Aboriginal...

.... The Finnish aid workers’ ethical and affective internationalist sense of obligation to help in emergencies was exceptionally strong. So, too, was their aspiration to occupational solidarities and high-level professional teamwork with multinational colleagues. A love of travel was a way of conveying...

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