Humanitarianism and suffering: the mobilization of empathy
Introduction / Richard Ashby Wilson and Richard D. Brown -- Histories and contexts -- Mourning, pity, and the work of narrative in the making of humanity / Thomas W. Laqueur -- Contemporary humanitarianism : the global and the local contemporary / David P. Forsythe -- Humanitarian reading / Joseph R. Slaughter -- Global media and the myths of humanitarian relief : the case of the 2004 Tsunami / Rony Brauman -- Hard struggles of doubt : abolitionists and the problem of slave redemption / Margaret M.R. Kellow -- Starving Armenians : the politics and ideology of humanitarian aid in the first decades of the twentieth century / Flora A. Keshgegian -- International bystanders to the holocaust and humanitarian intervention / Michael R. Marrus -- Narratives and redress -- Victims, relatives and citizens in Argentina : whose voice is legitimate enough? / Elizabeth Jelin -- Children, suffering and the humanitarian appeal / Laura Suski -- The physicality of legal consciousness : suffering and the production of credibility in refugee resettlement / Kristin Bergtora Sandvik -- Can you describe this human rights reports and what they tell us about the human rights movement / Ron Dudai -- Financial reparations, blood money, and human rights witness testimony : Morocco and Algeria / Susan Slymovics -- Remnants & remains : narratives of suffering in post-genocide Rwanda's Gacaca Courts / Lars Waldorf