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International Journal of Cultural Studies, 2010 This article offers a trajectory of humanitarian communication, which suggests a clear, though not linear, move from emotion-oriented to post-emotional styles of appealing. Drawing on empirical examples, the article demonstrates that the humanitarian sensibility that arises out of these emerging styles breaks with pity and privileges a short-term and ...
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Under Control? Or Border (as) Conflict: Reflections on the European Border Regime
Social Inclusion, 2017 The migrations of 2015 have led to a temporary destabilization of the European border and migration regime. In this contribution, we trace the process of destabilization to its various origins, which we locate around the year 2011, and offer a ...
Sabine Hess, Bernd Kasparek
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, 2015 At St Antony's College Oxford, the Richard von Weizsäcker fellow organizes a conference on humanitarianism and aid. The meeting takes place at the European Studies Centre, 70 Woodstock Road, on 19 -20 June 2015.
Johannes Paulmann
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Varieties of European humanitarianism
European humanitarianism includes a wide variety of actors, including governmental and non-governmental, secular, and faith-based organisations, as well as diaspora networks and self-organised aid ‘from below’.
Denskus, Tobias, +3 more
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Research Topics, Part 2: Humanitarianism and Religion
, 2013 Beside Humanitarianism and Intervention (see Fabian's post on 18/04/2013), another central research topic is religion and humanitarianism. Among the different threads, which have made up modern humanitarianism since the eighteenth century, religion was ...
Johannes Paulmann
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Research Topics, Part 1: Humanitarianism and Intervention
, 2013 One aim of our blog is to identify, present, discuss and exchange ideas about emerging research topics in the prospering field of the history of humanitarianism and human rights.
Fabian Klose
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The Dynamics of Othering in Activism as Part of Germany’s Post-2015 “Willkommenskultur”
Dve Domovini, 2018 The article critically evaluates the involvement of activists in the country’s often praised Willkommenskultur (culture of welcome). Using humanitarianism as a starting point, it investigates the ways activists otherise refugees in spite or because of ...
Linda Becht +2 more
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Anthropology and Humanitarianism - Reading by a Historian
, 2014 Miriam Ticktin, “Transnational Humanitarianism”, Annual Review of Anthropology 43 (2014). This is a useful review article on how anthropologists have studied humanitarianism since the late 1980s.
Johannes Paulmann
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Social Analysis, 2009 A global society has come into being, but as yet it possesses no political institutions proper to its name. I will make the case that new forms of militancy, like that of al-Qaeda, achieve meaning in this institutional vacuum while representing, in their own way, the search for a global politics.
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New Special Issue on "Humanitarianism"
, 2016 Maria Framke and Joël Glasman have recently edited a special issue on "Humanitarianism" for the German historical journal "Werkstatt.Geschichte". Contributions in both English and German by Semih Çelik, Alexandra Pfeiff, Heike Wieters and Florian Hannig ...
Esther Moeller
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