Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions
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Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions
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Overview
Drawing on the critical insights of anthropologists, legal scholars, political scientists, and practitioners from the field, Contemporary States of Emergency first examines the historical antecedents as well as the moral, juridical, ideological, and economic conditions that have made military and humanitarian interventions possible today. It then addresses the practical process of intervention in global situations on five continents, illustrating the diversity as well as the parallels between contemporary forms of military and humanitarian interventions.
Finally, it investigates the ethical and political consequences of the generalization of states of emergency and the humanitarian government that they entail. The authors thus seek to understand a critical question that confronts the world today: How and why have military and humanitarian interventions transformed the international order such that what was once a logic of exception has now become the rule of contemporary global politics?
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781935408017 |
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| Publisher: | Zone Books |
| Publication date: | 02/08/2013 |
| Series: | Zone Books |
| Pages: | 408 |
| Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Mariella Pandolfi is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Montreal.
Didier Fassin is James Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and Director of Studies in Anthropology at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. His recent publications include When Bodies Remember: Experience and Politics of AIDS in South Africa. Mariella Pandolfi is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Montreal.
Mariella Pandolfi is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Montreal.
Craig Calhoun is Professor of Sociology and History and Director of the Program of Social Theory and Cross Cultural Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Adi Ophir is Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University. He is the author of The Order of Evils: Toward and Ontology of Morals (Zone Books, 2005) and other books.
What People are Saying About This
Contemporary States of Emergency demands that we rethink the very nature of violence, benevolence, and vulnerability in the face of what Paula Vasquez Lezama felicitously calls 'compassionate militarization.
—Gil Anidjar, author of Semites: Race, Religion, Literature“This superb collection focuses attention on the changing categories and modalities of humanitarianism, human rights, and security — using key examples from the Balkans, Australia, Palestine, Venezuela, Somalia, and Indonesia to explore how states of emergency become persistent tutelary and militarized governance, but also how grey zones of passion and reason, and different moments of military intervention, humanitarian aid, security concerns, and foreign investments become mutually implicated. We live in a new moral universe, where humanitarianism raises as many troubling issues as it claims to solve.”— Michael M. J. Fischer, author of Anthropological Futures and Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice“Through the rigorous work of multidisciplinary analysis, the figure of intervention acquires, in this magisterial volume, its full significance. Marking out and exploring — at times undoing — the fragile lines that separate ethics from politics, politics from scholarship, and justice from the military pursuit of good (and evil), each contribution, here assembled with impressive acumen by Mariella Pandolfi and Didier Fassin, constitutes a call to responsibility.”— Gil Anidjar, author of Semites: Race, Religion, Literature
Contemporary States of Emergency demands that we rethink the very nature of violence, benevolence, and vulnerability in the face of what Paula Vasquez Lezama felicitously calls 'compassionate militarization.