Feldman / Ticktin In the Name of Humanity

The Government of Threat and Care
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9322-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 389 Seiten

Anthropological and cultural critics ask what it means to govern, fight, and care in the name of humanity, examining the question through the lenses of biotechnology, the environment, and human rights.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Feldman, Ilana

Ticktin, Miriam

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wilson, Richard Ashby

Malkki, Liisa H.

Hardin, Rebecca

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Government and Humanity / Ilana Feldman and Miriam Ticktin 1

When Humanity Sits in Judgment: Crimes Against Humanity and the Conundrum of Race and Ethnicity at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda / Richard Ashby Wilson 27

Children, Humanity, and the Infantilization of Peace / Liisa Malkki 58

Narrative, Humanity, and Patrimony in an Equatorial African Forest / Rebecca Hardin 86

Inhumanitas: Political Speciation, Animality, Natality, Defacement / Allen Feldman 115

"Medication is me now": Human Values and Political Life in the Wake of Global AIDS Treatment / Joao Biehl 151

Environment, Community, Government / Arun Agrawal 190

The Mortality Effect: Counting the Dead in the Cancer Trial / S. Lochlann Jain 218

Inequality of Lives, Hierarchies of Humanity: Moral Commitments and Ethical Dilemmas of Humanitarianism / Didier Fassin 238

The Politics of Experimentality / Adriana Petryna 256

Stealth Nature: Biomimesis and the Weaponization of Life / Charles Zerner 290

Bibliography 325

Contributors 359

Index 363

Über Autor(innen)

Ilana Feldman is Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at George Washington University. She is the author of Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917–67, also published by Duke University Press.Miriam Ticktin is Assistant Professor in Anthropology and in the Graduate Program in International Affairs at the New School.