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
9 - Innocence
Shaping the Concept and Practice of Humanity
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
Humanitarianism and human rights use different notions of innocence to talk about victims and different understandings of how victims are created and cared for.
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- Humanitarianism and Human RightsA World of Differences?, pp. 185 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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