Humanitarian Reason

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A Moral History of the Present

By Didier Fassin

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Didier Fassin examines the concept of humanitarianism amid global crises, using case studies from France, South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine. He explores how moral values shape policies on immigration, asylum, disease, poverty, disaster, and war. The book analyses shifts in political and moral discourse—termed "humanitarian reason"—highlighting the challenges posed by inequality and violence in humanitarian efforts. It provides a nuanced critique of the complexities faced by states and organisations in addressing human suffering.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in political science, anthropology, international relations, and humanitarian studies, particularly those keen on understanding the moral complexities behind global humanitarian policies.

In the face of the world's disorders, moral concerns have provided a powerful ground for developing international and local policies. This title draws on case materials from France, South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine to explore the meaning of humanitarianism in the contexts of immigration and asylum, disease and poverty, disaster and war.

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In the face of the world's disorders, moral concerns have provided a powerful ground for developing international as well as local policies. Didier Fassin draws on case materials from France, South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine to explore the meaning of humanitarianism in the contexts of immigration and asylum, disease and poverty, disaster and war.

He traces and analyses recent shifts in moral and political discourse and practices—what he terms humanitarian reason—and shows in vivid examples how humanitarianism is confronted by inequality and violence. Deftly illuminating the tensions and contradictions in humanitarian government, he reveals the ambiguities confronting states and organisations as they struggle to deal with the intolerable.

His critique of humanitarian reason, respectful of the participants involved but lucid about the stakes they disregard, offers theoretical and empirical foundations for a political and moral anthropology.

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Humanitarian Reason has been praised as a "brilliant compilation" and "one of the most thought-provoking books" by Choice. It is described as "meticulously researched, well balanced and absorbing" by the European Review Of History, and Mark Welch of Metapsychology Online Review calls it a "very thought-provoking contribution" with "precise and persuasive" analysis. The Social Anthropology journal regards it as an "outstanding study of contemporary Western moral and political economy."

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ISBN: 9780520271173

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 03 October 2011

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 6 tables

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 499g

Pages: 352

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About the Author

Didier Fassin is the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the author of When Bodies Remember: Experiences of AIDS in South Africa (UC Press) and coauthor of The Empire of Trauma: An Inquiry into the Condition of Victimhood.

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