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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (147): 55–76.
Published: 01 October 2023
... the US military deemed dirty and uncivilized but also brokered the ideological movement of empire from the nation-state to the occupied regions of the Vietnamese South. Wartime US humanitarianism proffered soap as a counterinsurgent weapon of soft power and as an infrastructural poetic that securitized...
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Radical History Review (2022) 2022 (143): 165–176.
Published: 01 May 2022
... is also considered within the context of wider traditions of Western humanitarianism. The article suggests that although famine humanitarianism mobilized a vast community of donors and traversed class, gender, and ethnic groups, it was ultimately a conservative force that upheld social hierarchies...
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Radical History Review (2015) 2015 (123): 60–86.
Published: 01 October 2015
... as humanitarian, and facilitate engagements with occupied civilian women—the article argues that the affective labor of women soldiers and marines was strategically instrumentalized for population-centric counterinsurgency warfare. In addition to the gendered labor women perform as counterinsurgents, the article...
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Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (95): 108–114.
Published: 01 May 2006
... break with the past but, rather, an adoption of all that is most backward at home and abroad. Blair at first promoted a foreign policy with an ethical dimension, but this soon appeared no longer cred- ible. It was hastily followed by a foreign policy in which humanitarian concern and enlightened...
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Radical History Review (2019) 2019 (133): 163–176.
Published: 01 January 2019
..., the emergence of its Christian and humanitarian citizenship, and the rearticulation of its exceptionalism.” 44 She finds that subjects are “securitized in neoliberal ways”—they are subject to rhetoric that insists, as Terry labored to point out, that citizens should be fearful of immigrants and terrorists...
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Radical History Review (2013) 2013 (115): 142–168.
Published: 01 January 2013
... as a “humanitarian camp,” the facts disclose that it is nothing more than an HIV prison camp. — Judge Sterling Johnson Jr., Haitian Centers Council v. Sale In November 1991 the US military began transporting thousands of Haitian ref- ugees intercepted on the high seas to the Guantánamo naval base...
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Radical History Review (2014) 2014 (119): 146–160.
Published: 01 May 2014
.... In the midst of the developments in international law with regard to liberation struggles and humanitarian situations in the 1970s, the ANC faced an intensifying battle over apartheid and a question as moral as it was strategic: Apartheid was indisputably wrong, but did that mean that any efforts to end...
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Radical History Review (2018) 2018 (132): 23–45.
Published: 01 October 2018
... generously with international humanitarian organizations” 7 ranging from the World Health Organization and Amnesty International to UNICEF and Médecins Sans Frontières, with whom he produced his first meaningful work during the Ethiopian famine between 1984 and 1985; 8 he was the photographer of what...
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Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (85): 164–170.
Published: 01 January 2003
...,” and disseminating it to contra forces, has encouraged the commission by them of acts contrary to general principles of humanitarian law.1 Mark Weisbrot recently recalled just what “principles of humanitarian law” were violated in Nicaragua: “They [the U.S...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (140): 143–150.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Dunant, to make war “humanitarian.” This led to the 1864 Geneva Conventions, the international laws governing war, and our definitions of “human rights.” In 1941 the American Red Cross (ARC) initiated a blood plasma donation program to serve US armed forces. By 1948 the ARC began blood collection...
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Radical History Review (2019) 2019 (135): 138–159.
Published: 01 October 2019
... border violence to carcerality, neoliberal capitalism, white supremacy, settler colonialism, and fascism. Alyn Maria, US migrant solidarity activist, No More Deaths/No Más Muertes, Arizona—humanitarian organization that aims to end deaths, disappearances, and suffering in the US–Mexico border...
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Radical History Review (2014) 2014 (118): 1.
Published: 01 January 2014
... lambs and Antigone? They never give me their money. Bill Gates, the great humanitarian, stands upon a peak in Darien. I said Bill, I believe this is killing me. A sculptor sees the statue in the slab, the shiv in the toothbrush. The stab. I plump for Red October. Sink or swim or wade...
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (97): 171–175.
Published: 01 January 2007
... write to notify you,” the message begins, that my late client made you a beneficiary to the bequest sum of Nine Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars in the codicil to his will and last testament. He died at the age of one hundred years. This bequest is to support your activities, humanitarian...
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Radical History Review (2019) 2019 (135): 14–42.
Published: 01 October 2019
... that many liberal internationalists like Arendt heralded the creation of the UNRRA in 1943 as “the first blueprint of the postwar order”: a more humanitarian, internationally cooperative world. Imagining worlds based on international solidarity instead of national security, such blueprints propose alternate...
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Radical History Review (2005) 2005 (91): 165–169.
Published: 01 January 2005
..., it could open up a discussion about how individuals targeted by criticism, as well as by humanitarian impulses, respond to particular representations. In previous weeks, there had been limited opportunity to elaborate a space of agency for Indian women, and instead we had remained restricted...
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Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (101): 22–41.
Published: 01 May 2008
... for the respect of human rights and of humanitarian law regarding women and girls, particularly those impacted by war. Resolution 1325 acknowledged the contribution of women to conflict resolu- tion and sustainable peace and stressed the necessity to involve women in conflict prevention, peace...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (145): 147–164.
Published: 01 January 2023
... , 2022 . Paik Naomi . “ Between Rights and Rightlessness: Haitian Migrants and the Elusive Promises of Humanitarianism .” emisférica 14 , no. 1 ( 2018 ). https://hemisphericinstitute.org/en/emisferica-14-1-expulsion/14-1-essays/between-rights-and-rightlessness-haitian-migrants...
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Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (95): 235–245.
Published: 01 May 2006
..., or that an extended family may well have stepped in and taken care of her. In all its melodramatic simplicity, the Baby Kathleen story becomes an allegory for the American military engaged in the humanitarian mis- sion of winning hearts and minds, a far cry from all the search-and-destroy mis- sions, all...
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Radical History Review (1976) 1976 (12): 60–67.
Published: 01 October 1976
... describes the maturation of the paternalist ethos , the slave states repealed the humanitarian legislation designed to restrict the sale and movement of slaves.9 Roll, Jordan, Roll has little to say about the slave trade and its possible relationship to "paternalism" but clearly in the upper...
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Radical History Review (1984) 1984 (28-30): 413–416.
Published: 01 May 1984
..., each party adopted, overtly or covertly, some of the other’s positions. Each party contained what were politically self-contradictory positions-hawks versus doves, humanitarians versus imperialists, welfarists versus business-as-usual types. But the point is that these positions were...