Contemporary states of emergency : the politics of military and humanitarian interventions /
Politics of military and humanitarian interventions
edited by Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolfi.
- 403 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Military and humanitarian government in the age of intervention / The idea of emergency : humanitarian action and global (dis)order / The politics of catastrophization : emergency and exception / Emergency-based predatory capitalism : the rule of law, alternative dispute resolution, and development / Utopias of power : from human security to the responsibility to protect / Between compassion and conservatism : a genealogy of humanitarian sensibilities / From paradox to paradigm : the permanent state of emergency in the Balkans / The verge of crisis : doctors without borders in Uganda / Compassionate militarization : the management of a natural disaster in Venezuela / From denial to emergency : governing indigenous communities in Australia / Complex engagements : responding to violence in postconflict Aceh / Heart of humaneness : the moral economy of humanitarian intervention / An emancipatory imperium? Power and principle in the humanitarian government / Benevolent dictatorship : the formal logic of humanitarian government / The passions of protection : sovereign authority and humanitarian war / Experts, reporters, witnesses : the making of anthropologists in states of emergency / Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolfi -- Craig Calhoun -- Adi Ophir -- Ugo Mattei -- Chowra Makaremi -- Vanessa Pupavac -- Mariella Pandolfi -- Peter Redfield -- Paula Vásquez Lezama -- Deirdre Howard-Wagner -- Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Byron J. Good, and Jesse Grayman -- Didier Fassin -- Alex de Waal -- Laurence McFalls -- Anne Orford -- George E. Marcus.
"Drawing on the critical insights of anthropologists, legal scholars, political scientists, and practitioners from the field, Contemporary States of Emergency first examines the historical antecedents as well as the moral, juridical, ideological, and economic conditions that have made military and humanitarian interventions possible today. It ten addresses the practical process of intervention in global situations on five continents, illustrating the diversity as well as the parallels between contemporary forms of military and humanitarian interventions. Finally, it investigates the ethical and political consequences of the generalization of states of emergency and the humanitarian government that they entail. The authors thus seek to understand a critical question that confronts the world today: How and why have military and humanitarian interventions transformed the international order such that what was once a logic of exception has now become the rule of contemporary global politics?"--BOOK JACKET.