"Humanitarian emergencies are not simply brute facts, appealing directly
to our emotions or our moral sensibilities. They are one of the
important ways in which perceptions of human life, sympathy for
suffering, and responses to social upheaval have come to be organized in
recent decades. Like nations and business corporations, they are
creatures of social imaginaries, but no less materially influential for
that. They are shaped by a history of changing ideas about the human;
moral responsibility for strangers; structures of chance and causality;
and the imperative and capacity for effective action, even at a
distance. They reflect the context of the modern era generally and more
specific features of the era since the 1970s. And they are embedded in a
complex institutionalisation of responses. This lecture will explore
these difficult issues."
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