(P/B) CONTEMPORARY STATES OF EMERGENCY

Παρουσίαση

From natural disaster areas to zones of conflict around the world, a new logic of intervention has emerged. This new post-Cold War international order combines military action and humanitarian aid, conflates moral imperatives and political arguments, and confuses the concepts of legitimacy and legality. The mandate to protect human lives, however and wherever endangered, has thus promoted a new form of military and humanitarian government that operates in a temporality of urgency, moving from one crisis to the next, applying the same battery of technical expertise - from army logistics to epidemiological management to the latest administrative tools for forging "good governance." In the name of the right to intervene, this new strategy challenges national sovereignties and deploys economic powers. Not only does it take charge of people's lives, it also reduces their histories and expectations to bare lives to be rescued.
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? (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Introduction: Military and humanitarian government in the age of intervention
Didier Fassin and Mariella Pandolfi
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS
The idea of emergency: Humanitarian action and global (dis)order
Craig Calhoun
The politics of catastrophization: Emergency and exception
Adi Ophir
Emergency-based predatory capitalism: The rule of law, alternative dispute resolution, and development
Ugo Mattei
Utopias of power: From human security to the responsibility to protect
Chowra Makaremi
Between compassion and conservatism: A genealogy of humanitarian sensibilities
Vanessa Pupavac
PART TWO: SCENES
From paradox to paradigm: The permanent state of emergency in the Balkans
Mariella Pandolfi
The verge of crisis: Doctors without borders in Uganda
Peter Redfield
Compassionate militarization: The management of a natural disaster in Venezuela
Paula Vasquez Lezama
From denial to emergency: Governing indigenous communities in Australia
Deirde Howard-Wagner
Complex engagements: Responding to violence in postconflict Aceh
Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Byron J. Good and Jessy Grayman
PART THREE: LANDSCAPES
Heart of humaneness: The moral economy of humanitarian intervention
Didier Fassin
An emancipator imperium?: Power and principle in the humanitarian international
Alex de Waal
Benevolent dictatorship: The formal logic of humanitarian government
Laurence McFalls
The passions of protection: Sovereign authority and humanitarian war
Anne Orford
Experts, reporters, witnesses: The making of anthropologists in states of emergency
George E. Marcus
Contributors
Index