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Humanitarianism and Suffering : The Mobilization of Empathy, Hardback Book

Humanitarianism and Suffering : The Mobilization of Empathy Hardback

Edited by Richard Ashby (University of Connecticut) Wilson, Richard D. (Unversity of Connecticut) Brown

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Humanitarian sentiments have motivated a variety of manifestations of pity, from nineteenth-century movements to end slavery to the creation of modern international humanitarian law.

While humanitarianism is clearly political, this text addresses the ways in which it is also an ethos embedded in civil society, one that drives secular and religious social and cultural movements, not just legal and political institutions.

As an ethos, humanitarianism has a strong narrative and representational dimension that can generate humanitarian constituencies for particular causes.

Essays in the volume analyze the character, form, and voice of private or public narratives themselves and explain how and why some narratives of suffering energize political movements of solidarity, whereas others do not.

Humanitarianism and Suffering explores when, how, and why humanitarian movements become widespread popular movements.

It shows how popular sentiments move political and social elites to action and, conversely, how national elites appropriate humanitarian ideals for more instrumental ends.

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