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Nonhuman Humanitarians - Animal Interventions in Global Politics (Hardcover)
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Nonhuman Humanitarians - Animal Interventions in Global Politics (Hardcover)
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Examining the appearance of nonhuman animals laboring alongside
humans in humanitarian operations  Both critical and
mainstream scholarly work on humanitarianism have largely been
framed from anthropocentric perspectives highlighting humanity as
the rationale for providing care to others. In Nonhuman
Humanitarians, Benjamin Meiches explores the role of animals
laboring alongside humans in humanitarian operations, generating
new ethical possibilities of care in humanitarian practice.
Nonhuman Humanitarians examines how these animals not only improve
specific practices of humanitarian aid but have started to
transform the basic tenets of humanitarianism. Analyzing case
studies of mine-clearance dogs, milk-producing cows and goats, and
disease-identifying rats, Nonhuman Humanitarians ultimately argues
that nonhuman animal contributions problematize foundational
assumptions about the emotional and rational capacities of
humanitarian actors as well as the ethical focus on human suffering
that defines humanitarianism. Meiches reveals that by integrating
nonhuman animals into humanitarian practice, several humanitarian
organizations have effectively demonstrated that care, compassion,
and creativity are creaturely rather than human and that responses
to suffering and injustice do not—and cannot—stop at the
boundaries of the human.
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