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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 167–192.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Eyal Weizman; Zachary Manfredi Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 “From Figure to Ground”
A Conversation with Eyal Weizman on the
Politics of The Humanitarian Present
eyal weizman and zachary manfredi
The following dialogue between Zachary Manfredi and Eyal Weiz-
man took place...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2006) 16 (1): 95–116.
Published: 01 June 2006
...Adi Ophir Copyright © 2006 Qui Parle 2006 DISASTER AS A PLACE OF MORALITY: THE
SOVEREIGN, THE HUMANITARIAN, AND THE
TERRORIST
Adi Ophir
The Social Existence of the Moral
Imagine morality as a domain or a social sphere with stakes,
concerns, and interests of its own...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 33–48.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Didier Fassin Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 The Predicament of Humanitarianism
didier fassin
The 2010 earthquake in Haiti provoked a spectacular wave of
humanitarianism, especially in the United States, where sympa-
thy for the victims gave rise to the mobilization...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 3–32.
Published: 01 June 2013
...Zachary Manfredi Copyright © 2013 Qui Parle 2013 Recent Histories and Uncertain Futures
Contemporary Critiques of International
Human Rights and Humanitarianism
zachary manfredi
Human rights? Through a hard- fought battle they must be wrestled
from those who would seek...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 203–222.
Published: 01 June 2013
... the nineteenth, twentieth, and early twenty- fi rst
centuries—lies in radically reshaping humanitarian ethics and hu-
man rights discourse to make justice available in the present. While
human rights has promised to redeem humanity from the repeti-
tion of past atrocities and prevent future catastrophes...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 291–294.
Published: 01 June 2014
..., Wolfgang. Digital Memory and the Archive. Minneapolis: Univer-
sity of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Fassin, Didier. Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
Foucault, Michel. Lectures on the Will to Know. New York...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2011) 19 (2): 309–325.
Published: 01 December 2011
... countries”—a situation that could lead to “violent dis-
turbances and humanitarian disasters.” Argos continues, “the in-
ternational community must urgently address the migration issue”
by developing legal, logistical, and fi nancial tools for responding to
and managing...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 105–137.
Published: 01 December 2005
... in their own locales.
The presence of humanitarian organizations typically indi-
cates a crisis situation, or evidence of the onset of a catastrophe.24
They are characterized by a fundamentally transient element,
whereby they provide assistance in places where the urgency
demands their presence...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 135–160.
Published: 01 December 2015
... expelled from humanity who petition
for asylum from the ravages of that existence beyond the pale of
empire. Seeing in the latter the making of a new humanitarian or-
der, Mahmood Mamdani argues, “If the rights of the citizen are
pointedly political, the rights of the human...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2017) 26 (1): 195–218.
Published: 01 June 2017
... , no. 3 ( 2009 ): 367 – 93 . Anidjar Gil . “ The Violence of Violence: Response to Talal Asad’s ‘Reflections on Violence, Law, and Humanitarianism.’ ” Critical Inquiry 41 , no. 2 ( 2015 ): 435 – 42 . Asad Talal . Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 233–235.
Published: 01 December 2015
... Copyright © 2015 Qui Parle 2015 Books Received
Apter, Emily. Against World Literature: On the Politics of
Untranslatability. New York: Verso Books, 2013.
Atanasoski, Neda. Humanitarian Violence: The U.S. Deployment of
Diversity. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 249–252.
Published: 01 June 2013
... States of Emergency (with
M. Pandolfi , 2010) and Moral Anthropology (2012) as editor; and
The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victim-
hood (with R. Rechtman, 2009), Humanitarian Reason: A Moral
History of the Present (2011), and Enforcing Order: An Ethnogra-
phy of Urban...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2019) 28 (2): 213–217.
Published: 01 December 2019
..., geological and humanitarian. Both in its style and its content, Gumbs’s piece challenges readers to engage what is at the “bottom” not as peripheral, or as what is to be forgotten, but as a generative form that grounds, to be honored, held, and grappled with. The ocean as praxis invites diasporic...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 55–61.
Published: 01 June 2013
... and can be
deployed by non- state actors. Transnational ngos, which are often
described as forming a cosmopolitan civil society, deploy govern-
mental technologies when they seek redress for groups whose hu-
man rights have been violated or when they engage in humanitarian
activities. These ngos...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2004) 14 (2): 15–56.
Published: 01 December 2004
... analysis of power.
Western NGOs and humanitarian agencies reinforce this
process by defining their interventions in essentially apolitical
terms. Bracketing the geopolitical context of humanitarian crises,
the United Nations High Commission on Refugees treats refugees...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2020) 29 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 June 2020
...: Reflections at the Edges of Sound , edited by Malhotra Sheena and Rowe Aimee Carrillo , 239 – 51 . London : Palgrave Macmillan , 2013 . Feldman Ilana . Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics . Oakland : University of California Press...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2013) 22 (1): 81–93.
Published: 01 June 2013
... his
renowned colleagues of international law at Columbia University,
and his learned account of the premodern history of the concept
are all exemplary. As opposed to Lynn Hunt’s work, which estab-
lishes a parallelism between the rise of humanitarian concerns and
human rights along...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 475–510.
Published: 01 December 2018
... opportunities to meet other women in gatherings where men were absent, and where the central focus was on women’s interests and issues” ( Laurie, “Transnational Conference Romance,” 396 ). 44. Fehrenbach and Rodogno, Humanitarian Photography , 140 . On interwar scientific conferences and women’s...
FIGURES
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 243–261.
Published: 01 December 2016
... of the tiger in India’s
Sundarbans, where the novel is set. Chapter 10 places Nuruddin Far-
ah’s Gift s in the context of social anthropologist Alex de Waal’s work
on humanitarian internationalism. The discussion of “social forces”
is ultimately secondary, however, to that of literature’s own “force...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (2): 269–289.
Published: 01 December 2018
... to go beyond the action of the political activists and the humanitarian associations that denounce the living conditions of the migrants and the police repression or give them material and juridical assistance. They decided to focus on the camp not as a place of relegation but as a place where art...
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