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001 2008023734
003 DLC
005 20090902083835.0
008 080603s2009 enk b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2008023734
020 $a9780521883856 (hardback)
020 $a0521883857 (hardback)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn227031819
035 $a(OCoLC)227031819
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050 00 $aBJ1475.3$b.H86 2009
082 00 $a361.2$222
245 00 $aHumanitarianism and suffering :$bthe mobilization of empathy /$cedited by Richard Ashby Wilson, Richard D. Brown.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2009.
300 $aix, 318 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction / Richard Ashby Wilson and Richard D. Brown -- Histories and contexts -- Mourning, pity, and the work of narrative in the making of "humanity" / Thomas W. Laqueur -- Contemporary humanitarianism : the global and the local / David P. Forsythe -- Humanitarian reading / Joseph R. Slaughter -- Global media and the myths of humanitarian relief : the case of the 2004 Tsunami / Rony Brauman -- Hard struggles of doubt : abolitionists and the problem of slave redemption / Margaret M.R. Kellow -- "Starving Armenians" : the politics and ideology of humanitarian aid in the first decades of the twentieth century / Flora A. Keshgegian -- International bystanders to the Holocaust and humanitarian intervention / Michael R. Marrus -- Narratives and redress -- Victims, relatives, and citizens in Argentina : whose voice is legitimate enough? / Elizabeth Jelin -- Children, suffering, and the humanitarian appeal / Laura Suski -- The physicality of legal consciousness : suffering and the production of credibility in refugee resettlement / Kristin Bergtora Sandvik -- "Can you describe this?" : human rights reports and what they tell us about the human rights movement / Ron Dudai -- Financial reparations, blood money, and human rights witness testimony : Morocco and Algeria / Susan Slymovics -- Remnants and remains : narratives of suffering in post-genocide Rwanda's Gacaca courts / Lars Waldorf.
650 0 $aHumanitarianism.
650 0 $aSuffering.
650 0 $aEmpathy.
700 1 $aWilson, Richard,$d1964-
700 1 $aBrown, Richard D.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0821/2008023734.html