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Humanity as an Identity and Its Political Effects (A Note on Camps and Humanitarian Government)

Author(s) -

Michel Agier

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

humanity

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.138

H-Index - 2

eISSN - 2151-4372

pISSN - 2151-4364

DOI - 10.1353/hum.2010.0005

Subject(s) - humanity , politics , government (linguistics) , ethnography , identity (music) , action (physics) , sociology , political science , environmental ethics , law , media studies , anthropology , aesthetics , philosophy , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics

Agier offers an assessment of contemporary humanitarianism and appeals to humanity that juxtaposes a survey of camps with ethnographic reportage. According to Agier, contemporary humanitarianism must be understood as a new and unprecedented form of government that nevertheless leaves room for unsuspected political action.

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