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Humanitarianism: Keywords [PDF]
, 2020 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 ...
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Anthropological approaches to medical humanitarianism
Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2017 Despite broadly shared interest in the welfare of ‘precarious lives’, medical anthropology and medical humanitarianism are too often in tension. In this survey, we sketch a history of the two disciplines, then track three major patterns through which ...
Isabel Beshar, Darryl Stellmach
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Mastering humanitarianism? A survey of postgraduate humanitarian courses [PDF]
Higher Education, 2022 AbstractHumanitarian events are increasing globally, both in number and intensity. In response, the international community spends approximately US$30 billion annually to alleviate both the immediate consequences of these climatic, geographic, and human-induced events but also to support mitigation and recovery.
Adriana A. Stibral +2 more
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When the Music Stops: Humanitarianism in a Post-Liberal World Order
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2019 The modern global humanitarian system takes the form it does because it is underpinned by liberal world order. Now the viability of global liberal institutions is increasingly in doubt, a backlash against humanitarianism (and human rights) has gained ...
Stephen Hopgood
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Coloniality and frictions: Data-driven humanitarianism in North-Eastern Nigeria and South Sudan
Big Data & Society, 2023 It is now over a decade since the proclamation of a humanitarian ‘data revolution’, with the rise of ‘innovation’ and the proliferation of ‘data solutions’ rendering data-based humanitarianism an important area of critical investigation.
Vicki Squire, Modesta Alozie
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Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2021 This review essay focuses on two books, Heide Fehrenbach and Davide Rodogno’s Humanitarian Photography: A History (2015) and Lasse Heerten’s The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism: Spectacles of Suffering (2017).
Jeffrey Flynn
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Biafra, Humanitarian Intervention and History
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2020 This roundtable took place on 16 January 2020, at the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the war in Biafra. It brought together Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps, Lasse Heerten, Arua Oko Omaka and Kevin O’Sullivan.
Marie-Luce Desgrandchamps +4 more
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Humanitarianism, Securitization and Humanitarian Communication [PDF]
, 2021 AbstractTo unpack the role that transnational humanitarian NGOs play in contemporary systems of governance and highlight how they contribute, through their visual production, to the securitization of the refugee issue, it is important to introduce the notions of humanitarianism, global governance, and securitization.
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Feed the dogs: The case of humanitarian communication in social media
MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, 2016 In this paper we address the interplay between networked media and humanitarian communication through the lens of meditization theory in order to forward a more balanced understanding of networked humanitarianism.
Gry Høngsmark Knudsen, Domen Bajde
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Quantification and Humanitarianism
Journal of Humanitarian Affairs, 2021 Over the past 25 years, the humanitarian sector has become increasingly dominated by numbers. This has been reflected in the growth of academic work that explores this relationship between humanitarianism and quantification.
Brendan T. Lawson
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