Affiliation:
1. Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Fordham University, New York
Abstract
This review essay focuses on two books, Heide Fehrenbach and Davide
Rodogno’s Humanitarian Photography: A History (2015) and
Lasse Heerten’s The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism:
Spectacles of Suffering (2017). It situates the books in relation
to broader debates about similarities and differences between humanitarianism
and human rights practice, with a particular focus on the visual cultures of and
ethical debates surrounding representations of suffering.
Publisher
Manchester University Press
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