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...: by definition, humanitarian action does not choose between victims. Had it truly been a question of a humanitarian aid operation, it thus would have been nec- essary to continue eastward and, in the name of the very principles upon which it was based, to pull the Chechens out of the blood bath in which...

...- icy makers make sense of their own actions, or how they connect solar energy to improvements in the lives of unrelated strangers. How then do solar entrepreneurs reconcile or accommodate themselves to the melding of commercial self-interest and care? Solar Humanitarianism The promise that our...

... in distress in the Central Medi- terranean. Although many of us had previously been critical of the increas- ing role of humanitarian NGOs in governing borders and migration, deploying humanitarian reason, 2 we were well aware of the disastrous con- sequences of criminalizing humanitarian action. This e...

...China Medel This paper employs an abolitionist framework to understand direct-action humanitarian aid along the US-Mexico border. Focusing on my own experiences volunteering with No More Deaths, an organization providing critical aid along the US-Mexico border, I think through the role of care...

... and the Italian government’s attacks against humanitarian organizations. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 migration Mediterranean Sea humanitarian action A G A I N S T the D A Y Luca Casarini Death and Life at Sea One day in July 2018, like in a typical movie scene of Italian immigrants...

... the commissioners write, ‘‘is about the so- called ‘right of humanitarian intervention’: the question of when, if ever, it is appropriate for states to take coercive—and in particular military— action, against another state for the purpose of protecting people at risk in that other state’’ (vii). The quotation...

... War ‘‘humanitarian intervention in So- malia. There, I was interested in the images of the soldiers in humanitarian action, especially on the first night of the operation, along with the images 440 Thomas Keenan of starvation that preceded it and the images of military debacle that eventu- ally...

... is included in this issue. It can be registered by understanding the way in which humanitarian interventions often have become immune to international law—immune from accusations of human rights violations or war crimes committed in the name of the humanitarian action—and there- fore, at times...

... and a widening set of exploitation industries that bank on the deepening of human tragedy. In the mix, volunteers with the humanitarian organization No More Deaths have been working to offer a critical measure of care and protection to migrants and refugees who find themselves stranded in the backcountry.1 Every...

... shape the tactics and strategies afoot in the border struggle? Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017 temporality crisis US-Mexico border humanitarian aid direct action References Butler Judith . 2004 . Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence . New York...

... and the nation-state as the spheres where the human ceases to be a mere biological body subject to humanitarian relief and finally turns into a fully fledged subject of rights. This article, in contrast, interrogates the possibility of political lives in gray areas. It asks, what conditions of being human...

... to ‘‘humanitarian interferencewhich ultimately boiled down to the right to invasion. A new suspicion thus arose: What lies behind this strange shift from Man to Humanity and from Humanity to the Humanitarian? The actual subject of these Rights of Man became Human Rights. Is there not a bias in the statement...

... that humanitarian aid is nondiscriminatory and given solely on the basis of need, he relented and ultimately allowed our volunteers to give water, food, socks, and first aid to the group. Further underscoring the ambivalence inherent in these various nar- ratives are the direct actions of law enforcement...

... are advocating and taking actions that are anti-Semitic in their effect if not their intent warned Harvard Presi- 6896 THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY / 102:4 / sheet 215 of 257 dent Lawrence Summers at a morning...

...Wilma J. Pugh The Humanitarian Movement in Eighteenth-Century France . By McCloy Shelby T. . Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , 1957 . Pp. 265 . $6.50 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 Book Reviews 38i on Auden s confusing methods of revision one must...

... and dominionhood, has been hailed as the great charter of liberties of the Commonwealth. Despite the reverence with which it is regarded by British Conservatives and peoples throughout the empire, the Durham concept at times has been severely criticized by humanitarians. Long before the colonial reformers...

... questions such as these: What are the problems of social welfare? What is the nature of these problems? What are the social responsibilities of man and society? What type of action is needed to solve these problems? Is social welfare legislation necessary to preserve the values of society? The social...

... ., April 21 . uawbylawsforum.wordpress.com/2016/04/20/bylaws-amendments/#comment-11 . National Women’s Studies Association . 2015 . “ Solidarity Statement .” Nwsa.org , January 19 . www.nwsa.org/statements . OCHA oPt (United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian...

... the curiosity and compassion of those whom he met. Inevitably, however, their reports tell us as much about humanitarian assumptions and investments in Aborigi- nality as they do about the life of Anthony Martin Fernando. As Ann Laura Stoler reminds us, cultural complexity belongs not only...

... merely contaminated by the Materialism which is its sphere of action, but it makes itself still worse by its unholy pursuit of Truth. In its failure to set proper limits to the activity of the intellect it aids and abets the first of the three dominating human lusts for knowledge, for emotion...