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Nonhuman Humanitarians

Author : Benjamin Meiches
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452969442
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Nonhuman Humanitarians written by Benjamin Meiches and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2023-06-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the appearance of nonhuman animals laboring alongside humans in humanitarian operations Both critical and mainstream scholarly work on humanitarianism have largely been framed from anthropocentric perspectives highlighting humanity as the rationale for providing care to others. In Nonhuman Humanitarians, Benjamin Meiches explores the role of animals laboring alongside humans in humanitarian operations, generating new ethical possibilities of care in humanitarian practice. Nonhuman Humanitarians examines how these animals not only improve specific practices of humanitarian aid but have started to transform the basic tenets of humanitarianism. Analyzing case studies of mine-clearance dogs, milk-producing cows and goats, and disease-identifying rats, Nonhuman Humanitarians ultimately argues that nonhuman animal contributions problematize foundational assumptions about the emotional and rational capacities of humanitarian actors as well as the ethical focus on human suffering that defines humanitarianism. Meiches reveals that by integrating nonhuman animals into humanitarian practice, several humanitarian organizations have effectively demonstrated that care, compassion, and creativity are creaturely rather than human and that responses to suffering and injustice do not—and cannot—stop at the boundaries of the human.

Non-Human Rights

Author : Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1802208526
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Non-Human Rights written by Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-04-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-human entities, including animals, mountains, rainforests, eco-systems, AI, and robots, are beginning to be considered the subjects of rights in different parts of the world. This innovative book provides a critical outlook on this emerging trend at the crossroad of two of the main concerns of the 21st century: climate change and automation.

Armed Non-State Actors in International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law

Author : Dr Konstantinos Mastorodimos
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472456181
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book Armed Non-State Actors in International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law written by Dr Konstantinos Mastorodimos and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The accountability of armed non-state actors is a neglected field of international law, overtaken by the regimes of state responsibility and individual criminal accountability as well as fears of legitimacy. Yet armed non-state actors are important players in the international arena and their activities have significant repercussions. This book focuses on their obligations and accountability when they do not function as state agents, regardless of the existence or extent of accountability of their individual members. The author claims that their distinct features lead to their classification into three different types: de facto entities, armed non-state actors in control of territory, and common article 3 armed non-state actors. The mechanisms that trigger the applicability of humanitarian and human rights law regimes are examined in detail as well as the framework of obligations. In both cases, the author argues that armed non-state actors should not be treated as entering international law and process exclusively through the state. The study concludes by focussing on their accountability in international humanitarian and human rights law and, more specifically, to the rules of attribution, remedies and reparations for violations of their primary obligations.

Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siecle Literature, Culture and the Arts

Author : Josephine M. Guy
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474408931
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Fin de Siecle Literature, Culture and the Arts written by Josephine M. Guy and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly comparative analysis of Jacques Derrida and Gilles Deleuze's philosophies of difference.

Non-State Actors and International Humanitarian Law. Organized Armed Groups: a Challenge for the 21st Century

Author : International institute of humanitarian law
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788856824278
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (242 download)

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Download or read book Non-State Actors and International Humanitarian Law. Organized Armed Groups: a Challenge for the 21st Century written by International institute of humanitarian law and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Clinic and the Court

Author : Ian Harper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107076242
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Clinic and the Court written by Ian Harper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where do law and medicine converge and diverge in their responses to and understandings of harm and suffering?

The Animal's Defender and Zoophilist

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Animal's Defender and Zoophilist written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Talking to the Other Side

Author : Ashley Jackson (Writer on humanitarian assistance)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Talking to the Other Side written by Ashley Jackson (Writer on humanitarian assistance) and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Return of the Wild

Author : Ted Kerasote
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 9781597263191
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Return of the Wild written by Ted Kerasote and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As individuals and as a nation we believe that if we recycle and buy fuel-efficient cars we have done our part to protect the environment. Yet an important element is missing. If we don't conserve the still-undeveloped places of the earth, human life will be disconnected from its fellow animals and torn from its roots. Humans will still exist, but as Ted Kerasote explains in his insightful introduction, "we'll be like potted trees in the foyers of great skyscrapers -- alone and not part of a wider forest."Our efforts to recycle and conserve energy must be augmented with advocacy for the protection of wild spaces, and Return of the Wild is an important underpinning for that endeavor: a guide through the issues of the day, a history, a forum for debate, a source of information. Sponsored by the Pew Wilderness Center, the book brings together leading thinkers and writers to examine why nature in its most untrammeled state is vitally important to all of us; what currently threatens wild country; and what can be done not merely to conserve more of it, but also to return it to our lives and consciousness.Contributors including Vine Deloria, Jr., Chris Madson, Mike Matz, Richard Nelson, Thomas M. Power, Michael Soule, Jack Turner, and Florence Williams consider a wide range of topics relating to wildlands, and explore the varied economic, spiritual, and ecological justifications for preserving wilderness areas. The book also features a completely new four-color mapping of the remaining roadless areas on federal lands, as well as the National Wilderness Preservation System, now measuring 106 million acres, in which much of this roadless land could one day be included.This first annual edition is both an inspiring and thoughtful introduction to wilderness subjects for the general public and an invaluable reference for legislators, the media, and conservation organizations. It is an essential new contribution to wilderness preservation efforts.

Christian Theology and the Status of Animals

Author : R. McLaughlin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113734458X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Christian Theology and the Status of Animals written by R. McLaughlin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author argues that there are conflicting traditions with regard to the question of what is the moral standing of animals according to Christianity. The dominant tradition maintains that animals are primarily resources but there are alternative strands of Christian thought that challenge this view.

Piecemeal Protest

Author : Corey Lee Wrenn
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472131672
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Piecemeal Protest written by Corey Lee Wrenn and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given their tendency to splinter over tactics and goals, social movements are rarely unified. Following the modern Western animal rights movement over thirty years, Corey Lee Wrennapplies the sociological theory of Bourdieu, Goffman, Weber, and contemporary social movement researchers to examine structural conditions in the animal rights movement, facilitating factionalism in today’s era of professionalized advocacy. Modern social movements are dominated by bureaucratically oriented nonprofits, a special arrangement that creates tension between activists and movement elites who compete for success in a corporate political arena. Piecemeal Protest examines the impact of nonprofitization on factionalism and a movement’s ability to mobilize, resonate, and succeed. Wrenn’sexhaustive analysis of archival movement literature and exclusive interviews with movement leaders illustrate how entities with greater symbolic capital are positioned to monopolize claims-making, disempower competitors, and replicate hegemonic power, eroding democratic access to dialogue and decision-making essential for movement health. Piecemeal Protest examines social movement behavior shaped by capitalist ideologies and state interests. As power concentrates to the disadvantage of marginalized factions in the modern social movement arena, Piecemeal Protest shines light on processes of factionalism and considers how, in the age of nonprofits, intra-movement inequality could stifle social progress.

Life Under the Baobab Tree

Author : Kenneth N. Ngwa
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 1531502997
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Life Under the Baobab Tree written by Kenneth N. Ngwa and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age is a compendium of innovating essays meticulously written by early and later diaspora people of African descent. Their speech arises from the depth of their experiences under the Baobab tree and offers to the world voices of resilience, newness/resurrection, hope, and life. Resolutely journeying on the trails of their ancestors, they speak about setbacks and forward-looking movements of liberation, social transformation, and community formation. The volume is a carefully woven conversation of intellectual substance and structure across time, space, and spirituality that is quintessentially “Africana” in its centering of methodological, theoretical, epistemological, and hermeneutical complexity that assumes nonlinear and dialogical approaches to developing liberating epistemologies in the face of imperialism, colonialism, racism, and religious intolerance. A critical part of this conversation is a reconceptualization and reconfiguration of the concept of religion in its colonial and imperial forms. Life Under the Baobab Tree examines how Africana peoples understand their corporate experiences of the divine not as “religion” apart from its intimate connections to social realities of communal health, economics, culture, politics, environment, violence, war, and dynamic community belonging. To that end Afro-Pessimistic formulations of life placed in dialogic relation Afro-Optimism. Both realities constitute life under the Baobab tree and represent the sturdiness and variation that anchors the deep ruptures that have affected Africana life and the creative responses. The metaphor and substance of the tree resists reductionist, essentialist, and assured conclusions about the nature of diasporic lived experiences, both within the continent of Africa and in the African Diaspora.

Human Shields

Author : Neve Gordon
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520301846
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Human Shields written by Neve Gordon and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Syrian civilians locked in iron cages to veterans joining peaceful indigenous water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, from Sri Lanka to Iraq and from Yemen to the United States, human beings have been used as shields for protection, coercion, or deterrence. Over the past decade, human shields have also appeared with increasing frequency in antinuclear struggles, civil and environmental protests, and even computer games. The phenomenon, however, is by no means a new one. Describing the use of human shields in key historical and contemporary moments across the globe, Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini demonstrate how the increasing weaponization of human beings has made the position of civilians trapped in theaters of violence more precarious and their lives more expendable. They show how the law facilitates the use of lethal violence against vulnerable people while portraying it as humane, but they also reveal how people can and do use their own vulnerability to resist violence and denounce forms of dehumanization. Ultimately, Human Shields unsettles our common ethical assumptions about violence and the law and urges us to imagine entirely new forms of humane politics.

God's Book of Works

Author : R. J. Berry
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567088765
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book God's Book of Works written by R. J. Berry and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R. J. Berry writes as a professional biologist and as a Christian believer. He contends that the interplay of science and faith requires continual re-examination in the light of scientific developments, with the consequent need to review religious assumptions. To quote from his Preface: "Where science and faith meet, they must be congruent; if they are not, both the science and the religion ought to be examined. Religion cannot drive the content of science, nor can science properly determine the nature of religion."R. J. Berry's treatment differs from traditional work in science and religion in that he intentionally and explicitly extends his exploration of the implications of religious faith for contemporary science to environmental conservation, or 'Creation care'. Professor Berry's expertise in this area is considerable - as an ecologist who has long been involved in developing environmental ethics both locally and internationally. He argues that the contribution of religious belief to environmental science is highly important, not only in theoretical terms but also in practice.This book does not assume extensive, specialised background knowledge. It will be of immense interest to anyone concerned with environmental problems, scientists and religious believers exploring contemporary applications of religious faith.

Security Studies

Author : Norma Rossi
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 1529615550
Total Pages : 741 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Security Studies written by Norma Rossi and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security Studies: An Applied Introduction offers a transformative tool to understand, analyse, and engage with the complexities of security in the modern world. This groundbreaking new text redefines the landscape of security studies with the following features: Policy-Relevant: each chapter provides analysis of policy responses to empirical security issues. This practical approach offers a toolkit to assess and contribute to real-world policy discussions. Empirical Application: vividly demonstrating the real-world relevance of Security Studies with online videos from leading security practitioners to show how theory informs practice. Pedagogically Rich: comprehensive online resources and chapters features such as ′security beyond the real′ and hands-on exercises that critically assess real-world security responses and their policy implications that offer ways to apply theoretical concepts in a highly innovative way. Innovative Structure: seamlessly integrating theoretical perspectives with empirical security concerns, this textbook offers a non-compartmentalised approach to theory and practice. Hot Topics: placing contemporary, creative, emerging, and underexplored approaches and empirical topics at the forefront including cyber security, racism, and space security. This is the perfect introduction for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying Security Studies and International or Global Security. Malte Riemann is Assistant Professor in Contemporary Armed Conflict, Leiden University, the Netherlands Norma Rossi is Associate Lecturer in International Relations, University of St Andrews, UK

Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality

Author : Silke Roth
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1802206558
Total Pages : 631 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Handbook on Humanitarianism and Inequality written by Silke Roth and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-12 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This prescient Handbook examines how legacies of colonialism, gender, class, and other markers of inequality intersect with contemporary humanitarianism at multiple levels.

Animal Afterlife?

Author : Betsy Clark George
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 166674011X
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Animal Afterlife? written by Betsy Clark George and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2023-03-30 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do animals really continue conscious life after their earthly death? Is it possible that our beloved non-human companions will join us for eternity? What about wild animals? Do they actually have an immortal soul? These questions can certainly perplex anyone who has ever enjoyed and loved a pet . . . or a hummingbird . . . and a variety of answers can undoubtedly spark the curiosity of an inquiring mind. Tracing the history of thought pertaining to the concept of animal immortality, Betsy George follows an intriguing trail through centuries of western theology, including its struggles with philosophy and science. Reflection on the offered possibilities, interwoven with biblical foundation, gives confidence to positive answers to the questions posed above.