Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present

by Didier Fassin

Book Overview

In the face of the world's disorders, moral concerns have provided a powerful ground for developing international as well as local policies. Didier Fassin draws on case materials from France, South Africa, Venezuela, and Palestine to explore the meaning of humanitarianism in the contexts of immigration and asylum, disease and poverty, disaster and war. He traces and analyzes recent shifts in moral and political discourse and practices - what he terms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520271173
• ISBN13: 9780520271173
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"