Saving the Other
Topics covered include:
• Somalia • “Save Darfur” • “the humanitarian international” • “surgical strikes” • iatrogenic violence • therapeutic domination • the calculation of suffering • shock and awe • “protection”
Required Readings:
de Waal, Alex, “An Emancipatory Imperium? Power and Principle in the Humanitarian International,” pp. 295-361, in: Didier Fassin & Mariella Pandolfi (eds.). (2010). Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions. New York: Zone Books.
McFalls, Laurence, “Benevolent Dictatorship: The Formal Logic of Humanitarian Government,” pp. 317-333, in: Didier Fassin & Mariella Pandolfi (eds.). (2010). Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions. New York: Zone Books.
Orford, Anne, “The Passions of Protection: Sovereign Authority and Humanitarian War,” pp. 335-356, in: Didier Fassin & Mariella Pandolfi (eds.). (2010). Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions. New York: Zone Books.
» Presentations, peer review (worth 10%): Five students presenting for this session, commentary and questions expected from seminar participants
Optional Readings in the New Imperialism Course Pack on Reserve:
Mahmood MAMDANI
Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror (Pantheon Books, 2009) – Ch. 2, “The Politics of the Movement to Save Darfur,” 48-71
Additional Resources:
- Save Darfur
- Save Darfur: Organizational Members
- Mahmood Mamdani, “The Politics of Naming: Genocide, Civil War, Insurgency,” London Review of Books, 29 (5), March 8, 2007: 5-8
- Bruce Dixon, “Ten Reasons Why “Save Darfur” is a PR Scam to Justify the Next US Oil and Resource Wars in Africa,” Global Research.ca, December 12, 2007
- Does the Save Darfur Coalition Have a Hidden Pro-Israel Agenda? by PHILIP WEISS on August 27, 2008
- Darfur: Diigo List
