Humanitarianism Contested

Author : Michael Barnett,Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136814396

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Humanitarianism Contested by Michael Barnett,Thomas G. Weiss Pdf

This book provides a succinct but sophisticated understanding of humanitarianism and insight into the on-going dilemmas and tensions that have accompanied it since its origins in the early nineteenth century. Combining theoretical and historical exposition with a broad range of contemporary case studies, the book: provides a brief survey of the history of humanitarianism, beginning with the anti-slavery movement in the early nineteenth century and continuing to today’s challenge of post-conflict reconstruction and saving failed states explains the evolution of humanitarianism. Not only has it evolved over the decades, but since the end of the Cold War, humanitarianism has exploded in scope, scale, and significance presents an overview of the contemporary humanitarian sector, including briefly who the key actors are, how they are funded and what they do with their money analyses the ethical dilemmas confronted by humanitarian organization, not only in the abstract but also, and most importantly, in real situations and when lives are at stake examines how humanitarianism poses fundamental ethical questions regarding the kind of world we want to live in, what kind of world is possible, and how we might get there. An accessible and engaging work by two of the leading scholars in the field, Humanitarianism Contested is essential reading for all those concerned with the future of human rights and international relations.

Author : Michael N. Barnett,Thomas George Weiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 128344223X

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Humanitarianism Contested: Where Angels Fear to Tread by Michael N. Barnett,Thomas George Weiss Pdf

This book provides a succinct but sophisticated understanding of humanitarianism and on-going dilemmas and tensions that have accompanied it since its origins in the early 19th century until the 21st century.

Author : Michael Barnett,Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136814389

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Humanitarianism Contested by Michael Barnett,Thomas G. Weiss Pdf

This book provides a succinct but sophisticated understanding of humanitarianism and insight into the on-going dilemmas and tensions that have accompanied it since its origins in the early nineteenth century. Combining theoretical and historical exposition with a broad range of contemporary case studies, the book: provides a brief survey of the history of humanitarianism, beginning with the anti-slavery movement in the early nineteenth century and continuing to today’s challenge of post-conflict reconstruction and saving failed states explains the evolution of humanitarianism. Not only has it evolved over the decades, but since the end of the Cold War, humanitarianism has exploded in scope, scale, and significance presents an overview of the contemporary humanitarian sector, including briefly who the key actors are, how they are funded and what they do with their money analyses the ethical dilemmas confronted by humanitarian organization, not only in the abstract but also, and most importantly, in real situations and when lives are at stake examines how humanitarianism poses fundamental ethical questions regarding the kind of world we want to live in, what kind of world is possible, and how we might get there. An accessible and engaging work by two of the leading scholars in the field, Humanitarianism Contested is essential reading for all those concerned with the future of human rights and international relations.

Author : Zeynep Sezgin,Dennis Dijkzeul
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317570615

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The New Humanitarians in International Practice by Zeynep Sezgin,Dennis Dijkzeul Pdf

As humanitarian needs continue to grow rapidly, humanitarian action has become more contested, with new actors entering the field to address unmet needs, but also challenging long-held principles and precepts. This volume provides detailed empirical comparisons between emerging and traditional humanitarian actors. It sheds light on why and how the emerging actors engage in humanitarian crises and how their activities are carried out and perceived in their transnational organizational environment. It develops and applies a conceptual framework that fosters research on humanitarian actors and the humanitarian principles. In particular, it simultaneously refers to theories of organizational sociology and international relations to identify both the structural and the situational factors that influence the motivations, aims and activities of these actors, and their different levels of commitment to the traditional humanitarian principles. It thus elucidates the role of the humanitarian principles in promoting coherence and coordination in the crowded and diverse world of humanitarian action, and discusses whether alternative principles and parallel humanitarian systems are in the making. This volume will be of great interest to postgraduate students and scholars in humanitarian studies, globalization and transnationalism research, organizational sociology, international relations, development studies, and migration and diaspora studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners engaged in humanitarian action, development cooperation and migration issues.

Author : Volker M. Heins,Kai Koddenbrock,Christine Unrau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317332206

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Humanitarianism and Challenges of Cooperation by Volker M. Heins,Kai Koddenbrock,Christine Unrau Pdf

Humanitarianism as a moral concept and an organized practice has become a major factor in world society. It channels an enormous amount of resources and serves as an argument for different kinds of interference into the "internal affairs" of countries and regions. At the same time, and for these very reasons, it is an ideal testing ground for successful and unsuccessful cooperation across borders. Humanitarianism and the Challenges of Cooperation examines the multiple humanitarianisms of today as a testing ground for new ways of global cooperation. General trends in the contemporary transformation of humanitarianism are studied and individual cases of how humanitarian actors cooperate with others on the ground are investigated. This book offers a highly innovative, empirically informed account of global humanitarianism from the point of view of cooperation research in which internationally renowned contributors analyse broad trends and present case studies based on meticulous fieldwork. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers in the areas of political science, international relations and humanitarianism. It is also a valuable resource for humanitarian aid workers.

Author : Larissa Fleischmann
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839454374

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Contested Solidarity by Larissa Fleischmann Pdf

In the summer of 2015, an extraordinary number of German residents felt an urge to provide help to refugees. Doing good, however, is not as simple and straightforward as it might appear. Practices of solidarity are intertwined with questions of power. They are situated, relative and contested, unfolding in an ambivalent space between humanitarianism and political activism. This ethnographic account of the German »welcome culture« provides insights into the contested practices, imaginaries, interests and politics of refugee solidarity. Drawing on works from critical migration studies to social anthropology, Larissa Fleischmann develops an empirically grounded understanding of solidarity in migration societies.

Author : Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1073581549

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Humanitarianism's Contested Culture in War Zones by Thomas G. Weiss Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004431140

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Humanitarianism: Keywords by Anonim Pdf

Humanitarianism: Keywords is a comprehensive dictionary designed as a compass for navigating the conceptual universe of humanitarianism. It is an intuitive toolkit to map contemporary humanitarianism and to explore its current and future articulations. The dictionary serves a broad readership of practitioners, students, and researchers by providing informed access to the extensive humanitarian vocabulary.

Author : Hugo Slim
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190613327

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Humanitarian Ethics by Hugo Slim Pdf

Humanitarians are required to be impartial, independent, professionally competent and focused only on preventing and alleviating human suffering. It can be hard living up to these principles when others do not share them, while persuading political and military authorities and non-state actors to let an agency assist on the ground requires savvy ethical skills. Getting first to a conflict or natural catastrophe is only the beginning, as aid workers are usually and immediately presented with practical and moral questions about what to do next. For example, when does working closely with a warring party or an immoral regime move from practical cooperation to complicity in human rights violations? Should one operate in camps for displaced people and refugees if they are effectively places of internment? Do humanitarian agencies inadvertently encourage ethnic cleansing by always being ready to 'mop-up' the consequences of scorched earth warfare? This book has been written to help humanitarians assess and respond to these and other ethical dilemmas.

Author : Sharon Abramowitz,Catherine Panter-Brick
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780812247329

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Medical Humanitarianism by Sharon Abramowitz,Catherine Panter-Brick Pdf

Medical Humanitarianism provides comparative ethnographies of the moral, practical, and policy implications of modern medical humanitarian practice. It offers twelve vivid case studies that challenge readers to reach a more critical and compassionate understanding of humanitarian assistance.

Author : Tim Allen,Anna Macdonald,Henry Radice
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781135355128

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Humanitarianism by Tim Allen,Anna Macdonald,Henry Radice Pdf

The field of humanitarianism is characterised by profound uncertainty, by a constant need to respond to the unpredictable, and by concepts and practices that often defy simple or straightforward explanation. Humanitarians often find themselves not just engaged in the pursuit of effective action, but also in a quest for meaning. That is the starting point for this book. Humanitarian action has in recent years confronted geopolitical challenges that have upended much of its conventional modus operandi and presented threats to its foundational assumptions and legal frameworks. The critical interrogation of the purpose, practice and future of humanitarian action has yielded a rich new field of enquiry, humanitarian studies, and many thoughtful books, articles and reports. So, the question arose as to the most useful way to provide a critical overview that might serve to bring some definitional clarity as well as analytical rigor to the waves of critique and shifting sands of humanitarian action. Humanitarianism: A Dictionary of Concepts provides an authoritative analysis that attempts to rethink, rather than merely problematize or define the issues at stake in contemporary humanitarian debates. It is an important moment to do so. Just about every tenet of humanitarianism is currently open to question as never before.

Author : Thomas G. Weiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1073581549

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Humanitarianism's Contested Culture in War Zones by Thomas G. Weiss Pdf

Author : Michael N. Barnett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108836791

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Humanitarianism and Human Rights by Michael N. Barnett Pdf

Explores the fluctuating relationship between human rights and humanitarianism and the changing nature of the politics and practices of humanity.

Author : May Ngo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317201458

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Between Humanitarianism and Evangelism in Faith-based Organisations by May Ngo Pdf

Religion has always played an important, if often contested, role in the public domain. This book focuses on how faith-based organisations (FBOs) interact with the public sphere, showing how faith-based actors are themselves shaped by wider processes and global forces such as globalisation, migration, foreign policy and neoliberal markets. Focusing on a case study of an FBO in Morocco which gives aid to sub-Saharan African irregular migrants, the book reveals some of the challenges the organisation faces as it tries to negotiate at once local, national and international contexts through their particular Christian values. This book contends that the contradictions, tensions and ambiguities that arise are primarily a result of the organisation having to negotiate a normative global secular liberalism which requires a strict demarcation between religion and politics, and religion and the secular. Faith-based actors, particularly within humanitarianism, have to constantly navigate this divide and in examining the question of how religious values translate into humanitarian and development practices, categories such as religion, the secular and politics and the boundaries between them will need to be interrogated. This book explores the diversity and complexity of the work of FBOs and will be of great interest to students and researchers working at the intersections of humanitarianism and development studies, politics and religion.

Author : Zeynep Sezgin,Dennis Dijkzeul
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317570622

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The New Humanitarians in International Practice by Zeynep Sezgin,Dennis Dijkzeul Pdf

As humanitarian needs continue to grow rapidly, humanitarian action has become more contested, with new actors entering the field to address unmet needs, but also challenging long-held principles and precepts. This volume provides detailed empirical comparisons between emerging and traditional humanitarian actors. It sheds light on why and how the emerging actors engage in humanitarian crises and how their activities are carried out and perceived in their transnational organizational environment. It develops and applies a conceptual framework that fosters research on humanitarian actors and the humanitarian principles. In particular, it simultaneously refers to theories of organizational sociology and international relations to identify both the structural and the situational factors that influence the motivations, aims and activities of these actors, and their different levels of commitment to the traditional humanitarian principles. It thus elucidates the role of the humanitarian principles in promoting coherence and coordination in the crowded and diverse world of humanitarian action, and discusses whether alternative principles and parallel humanitarian systems are in the making. This volume will be of great interest to postgraduate students and scholars in humanitarian studies, globalization and transnationalism research, organizational sociology, international relations, development studies, and migration and diaspora studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners engaged in humanitarian action, development cooperation and migration issues.