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differences (2024) 35 (3): 178–201.
Published: 01 December 2024
...Megan Cole Paustian In Giving an Account of Oneself , Judith Butler asks how we justify our lives through narrative and what this means for ethical relations with others. This essay repositions Butler’s work in a humanitarian frame, foregrounding how moral commitments play out on a transatlantic...
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differences (2013) 24 (1): 104–136.
Published: 01 May 2013
...Pooja Rangan This essay critically examines humanitarian efforts to rehabilitate captive and working animals as producers of art—a practice recently and controversially popularized by viral videos of former draft elephants in Thai tourist camps painting self-portraits for sale. Positioning...
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 224–236.
Published: 01 December 2024
... is it possible to avoid becoming trapped in categories, or effaced by them, if they function to discredit the speaking I? Considering the racial politics of account giving, transphobic and diasporic narratives, complaints, colonial trajectories, and humanitarian whiteness, the question takes on new dimensions...
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differences (2007) 18 (3): 128–151.
Published: 01 December 2007
... Mission (one of the campaign’s four sponsored humanitarian organizations) has sought to Volume 18, Number 3  doi 10.1215/10407391-2007-013 © 2007 by Brown University and  differences : A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies...
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differences (2008) 19 (2): 54–81.
Published: 01 September 2008
... “malign evil” to humanity, a desire to exercise his “benevolent heart” (673). Delano sees himself, and Melville presents him, as a species of humanitarian, circa 1800. A problematic concept of humanity—human...
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differences (2009) 20 (2-3): 1–8.
Published: 01 December 2009
... heart; or the new humanitarian military in which successful conquest happily coincides with humanitarian imperatives. Balibar investigates the devel- opment over the last century of a negative cosmopolitanism of destitution...
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differences (2022) 33 (1): 119–147.
Published: 01 May 2022
... ; Massimo 1455 ; Saleh, “Queer/Humanitarian” 50 ; Sarı, “Lesbian” 2 ; Shakhsari, “Displacing” 109 ; Yıldız, “Alignments” 3 ). Such a focus on the immediate conditions of asylum seekers treats sexuality as a stable category of analysis (much like security regimes), rather than one secured discursively...
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differences (2011) 22 (1): 64–89.
Published: 01 May 2011
... Miriam . `` Where Ethics and Politics Meet: The Violence of Humanitarianism in France .'' American Ethnologist 33.1 ( 2006 ): 33 – 49 . ayse parla Undocumented Migrants and the Double Binds of Rights...
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differences (2003) 14 (1): 88–124.
Published: 01 May 2003
... -129. Haltunnen, Karen. “Humanitarianism and the Pornography of Pain in Anglo-American Culture.” American Historical Review 2 (Apr. 1995 ): 303 -34. Hanhardt, John, ed. Video Culture: A Critical Investigation . Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop, 1985 . Hartman, Geoffrey. “Public Memory...
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differences (1994) 6 (2-3): 100–125.
Published: 01 July 1994
... differentiated notions of how gender and sexuality operate. "What Interest Does the Women's Movement Have in the Homosexual Question?" Openly homosexual Anna Rueling delivered a speech on this question at the annual conference of the Scientific Humanitarian Committee on October 8, 1904, at a time when...
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differences (2024) 35 (3): 1–13.
Published: 01 December 2024
... humanitarianism ( Paustian ), from an epistolary exchange between philosopher friends ( Gilmore ) to a rejuvenating candlelit dinner between hiv -positive lovers ( Bradway ). In a wide-ranging response, Butler breaks from their usual “habits by offering a bit of a story about [their] life,” taking us from...
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differences (2020) 31 (3): 29–47.
Published: 01 December 2020
... independence). It is also a story of the vicissitudes of humanitarian work in South Asia with u.n. compounds, military and mercenaries, and much more. And then, of course, it is a story of the world of finance, the math of finance, and indeed the view of the world in the light of finance. Altogether...
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differences (2002) 13 (3): 1–23.
Published: 01 December 2002
... . Papers of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians. Radcliffe Institute Schlesinger Library, Cambridge,Mass. ———, ed. The Quest for Political Unity in World History . Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1944 . Rhem, Kathleen. “Women's Rights a Priority: Humanitarian Aid...
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differences (2003) 14 (1): 125–162.
Published: 01 May 2003
...,” and “solution” to a humanitarian problem? Also, does not the unheimlichkeit of the formulation become the very way in which Heidegger is able to articu- late—indeed, “in spectral and partial form”— his ethicopolitical distance from...
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differences (2004) 15 (2): 91–117.
Published: 01 September 2004
... on the Rights of the Child, as a primary consideration that should be given substantial weight. The court held that, when immigration offi cers make humanitarian and differences...
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differences (2002) 13 (1): 96–127.
Published: 01 May 2002
... that could still control publishing but no longer controlled speaking. As Angel Angelov put it, “Dialogue” was a humanitarian mind-set, normative and unat- tainable, that was cultivated in intellectual circles...
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differences (2008) 19 (2): 82–98.
Published: 01 September 2008
... destructive manner, various principles—assimilation, association, humanitarianism, emancipation, social development, policing of subversives—that Bourdieu’s intellectual peers (as do scholars today) referred to and attempted...
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differences (2022) 33 (2-3): 72–89.
Published: 01 December 2022
... in the lives of the abandoned and excommunicated where departures from the site of the originary trauma—that of expulsion from the homeland—is fraught with new perplexities of risk, precarity, and insecurity. Written in the midst of a humanitarian crisis, internal displacement, and the movement of nearly...
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differences (2004) 15 (1): 48–68.
Published: 01 May 2004
... was far from universal in applying the principled humanitarianism (“one God made us”) he endorsed with respect to the starving widow. If it was clear to him in 1843 that the rhetoric of sibling relationship connected the Irish...
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differences (2023) 34 (3): 129–149.
Published: 01 December 2023
..., I don’t want to imply that the state is not responsible for searching for missing foreigners within its territory, since all humans are citizens of the world and as such deserve humanitarian treatment. Rather, what I want to say is that they who are not looked for are denied precisely that universal...