{"product_id":"in-the-name-of-humanity-9780822348108","title":"In the Name of Humanity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnthropological and cultural critics ask what it means to govern, fight, and care in the name of humanity, examining the question through the lenses of biotechnology, the environment, and human rights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Most of the chapters in \u003ci\u003eIn the Name of the Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e raise more questions\u003cbr\u003ethan answers, but this makes it an ideal book both for courses on human\u003cbr\u003erights and globalization and for scholars working on human rights, humanitarian interventions, and globalization more generally. The accounts are remarkably balanced, neither cheerleading for globalization under the name of humanity nor pushing a relentlessly bleak image of globalization as neoliberalism.” - Jonathan Simon, \u003ci\u003ePolitical Theory\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[E]ach chapter grapples informatively and engagingly with the central challenges of human existence…The scholarship and diversity of research in this book will make it a valuable resource for students. More experienced readers will enjoy its depth and appreciate the opportunity to sample such a range of thought provoking perspectives on this fascinating topic.” - Dominique Martin, \u003ci\u003eThe Australian Journal of Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In a complex world where competing groups claim to be speaking on behalf of incommensurate versions of ‘humanity,’ the authors represented in \u003ci\u003eIn the Name of Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e ask not what humanity is but what are the epistemic, market, and governmental logics and environmental parsings that fashion humanity and the humans who will inhabit humanity in the twenty-first century.”—\u003cb\u003eElizabeth A. Povinelli\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Like ‘nature,’ ‘humanity’ is a Protean concept that confers immense capacity on those able to act in its name. Exploring the term and its effects from three key vantage points—humanitarianism, medicine, and environment—the papers in this outstanding collection offer up a stream of provocative insights and challenging perspectives. \u003ci\u003eIn the Name of Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e is sure to become an essential reference point for future discussions of the human, its outsides, and its negations.”—\u003cb\u003eHugh Raffles\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eInsectopedia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Government and Humanity \/ Ilana Feldman and Miriam Ticktin 1\u003cbr\u003e When Humanity Sits in Judgment: Crimes Against Humanity and the Conundrum of Race and Ethnicity at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda \/ Richard Ashby Wilson 27\u003cbr\u003e Children, Humanity, and the Infantilization of Peace \/ Liisa Malkki 58\u003cbr\u003e Narrative, Humanity, and Patrimony in an Equatorial African Forest \/ Rebecca Hardin 86\u003cbr\u003e Inhumanitas: Political Speciation, Animality, Natality, Defacement \/ Allen Feldman 115\u003cbr\u003e \"Medication is me now\": Human Values and Political Life in the Wake of Global AIDS Treatment \/ Joao Biehl 151\u003cbr\u003e Environment, Community, Government \/ Arun Agrawal 190\u003cbr\u003e The Mortality Effect: Counting the Dead in the Cancer Trial \/ S. Lochlann Jain 218\u003cbr\u003e Inequality of Lives, Hierarchies of Humanity: Moral Commitments and Ethical Dilemmas of Humanitarianism \/ Didier Fassin 238\u003cbr\u003e The Politics of Experimentality \/ Adriana Petryna 256\u003cbr\u003e Stealth Nature: Biomimesis and the Weaponization of Life \/ Charles Zerner 290\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 325\u003cbr\u003e Contributors 359\u003cbr\u003e Index 363","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406062428503,"sku":"9780822348108","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822348108.jpg?v=1730494399","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-the-name-of-humanity-9780822348108","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}