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Humanitarianism and Suffering - The Mobilization of Empathy (Hardcover, New)
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Humanitarianism and Suffering - The Mobilization of Empathy (Hardcover, New)
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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, Humanitarianism and Suffering
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. The emotional nature of compassion is closely
linked to visual and literary images of suffering and innocence.
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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