Book contents
- Humanitarianism and Human Rights
- Human Rights in History
- Humanitarianism and Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Differences or Distinctions?
- Part II Practices
- 5 Humanitarian Governance and the Circumvention of Revolutionary Human Rights in the British Empire
- 6 Humanitarian Intervention as an Entangled History of Humanitarianism and Human Rights
- 7 Mobilizing Emotions: Shame, Victimhood, and Agency
- 8 At Odds?
- 9 Innocence
- 10 Reckoning with Time
- 11 Between the Border and a Hard Place
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
5 - Humanitarian Governance and the Circumvention of Revolutionary Human Rights in the British Empire
from Part II - Practices
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 October 2020
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Book contents
- Humanitarianism and Human Rights
- Human Rights in History
- Humanitarianism and Human Rights
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Differences or Distinctions?
- Part II Practices
- 5 Humanitarian Governance and the Circumvention of Revolutionary Human Rights in the British Empire
- 6 Humanitarian Intervention as an Entangled History of Humanitarianism and Human Rights
- 7 Mobilizing Emotions: Shame, Victimhood, and Agency
- 8 At Odds?
- 9 Innocence
- 10 Reckoning with Time
- 11 Between the Border and a Hard Place
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter examines the different kinds of humanitarian governance that emerged in the British Empire in relationship to the colonies. One kind was organized around human rights and believed that governance was designed to ensure that the local peoples were protected from settlers and could lead to thoughts of their equality and even independence. The other kind was organized around humanitarianism and the idea that alleviating suffering, rather than building empancipation, was the extent of humanitarian governance.
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- Humanitarianism and Human RightsA World of Differences?, pp. 107 - 126Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020