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Humanitarian reason: a moral history of the present
Didier Fassin
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Frontmatter
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Preface to the English Edition (page ix)
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Acknowledgments (page xiii)
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Introduction: Humanitarian Government (page 1)
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PART I. POLITICS
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1. Suffering Unveiled: Listening to the Excluded and the Marginalized (page 21)
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2. Pathetic Choice: Exposing the Misery of the Poor (page 44)
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3. Compassion Protocol: Legalizing Diseased Undocumented Immigrants (page 83)
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4. Truth Ordeal: Attesting Violence for Asylum Seekers (page 109)
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LIMEN. FRONTIERS
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5. Ambivalent Hospitality: Governing the Unwanted (page 133)
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PART II. WORLDS
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6. Massacre of the Innocents: Representing Childhood in the Age of AIDS (page 161)
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7. Desire for Exception: Managing Disaster Victims (page 181)
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8. Subjectivity without Subjects: Reinventing the Figure of the Witness (page 200)
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9. Hierarchies of Humanity: Intervening in International Conflicts (page 223)
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Conclusion: Critique of Humanitarian Reason (page 243)
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Chronology (page 259)
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Notes (page 263)
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Glossary (page 307)
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Bibliography (page 311)
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Index (page 325)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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JRAI | 18.4 (2012): 907-908 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/23321475 |
EJS | 53.3 (2012): 376-379 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/43282245 |
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Published: c2012
Publisher: University of California Press
- 9780520271166 (hardcover)
- 9780520950481 (ebook)
- 9780520271173 (paper)