Making Humanitarian Crises | Emotions and Images in History

Robert Reese (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 303100826X / ISBN 13: 9783031008269

Published by Springer International Publishing, 2022

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Making Humanitarian Crises | Emotions and Images in History | Robert Reese (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2022 | Springer International Publishing | EAN 9783031008269 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, productsafety[at]springernature[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Making Humanitarian Crises | Emotions and Images in History
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 303100826X
• ISBN 13: 9783031008269
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 12D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 12 millimeters depth
• Weight: 266 grams
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Synopsis

This open access collection of essays explores the emotional agency of images in the construction of ‘humanitarian crises’ from the nineteenth century to the present. Using the prism of the histories of emotions and the senses, the chapters examine the pivotal role images have in shaping cultural, social and political reactions to the suffering of others and to the establishment of the international networks of solidarity. Questioning certain emotions assumed to underlie humanitarianism such as sympathy, empathy and compassion, they demonstrate how the experience of such emotions has shifted over time. Understanding images as emotional objects, contributors from a wide horizon of disciplines explore how their production, circulation and reception has been crucial to the perception of humanitarian crises in a long-term historical perspective.

About the Author

Brenda Lynn Edgar is Senior Teaching and Research Associate at the Institute for Ethics, History and Humanities at theUniversity of Geneva, Switzerland. Her research focuses on the material culture history of photography. She has published on decorative photographic practices, landscape photography used in clinical environments, and women humanitarians in anthropological cinema.

 

Valérie Gorin is Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Geneva Center of Humanitarian Studies, a joint center of the University of Geneva and the Graduate Institute, Switzerland. A historian and media scholar, she has published extensively on humanitarian history, visual culture and digital communication since a decade.

 

Dolores Martín-Moruno is Swiss National Science Foundation Professor at the Institute for Ethics, History and the Humanities at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva, Switzerland. She has published widely on the history of emotions and the history of humanitarian relief.