7 sociologists, political scientists, journalists and media scholars will gather in Barcelona in January to consider how humanitarianism is defined and conceptualized, its connections to political, philosophical or economic ideologies, its human rights applications, and how solidarity is communicated and understood.
Visit the meeting page for the guidelines for reflection, principal inquiries and participants.
Presentation abstracts:
Michael Barnett (George Washington University) – Humanitarian Practices: Solidarity, Nudge, Shove, or Hegemony?
Peter Stamatov (Yale University) – Humanitarianism and Capitalism: Revisiting the Connection
David Rieff – Power, Politics, and Ideology in Humanitarian Action
Claire Moon (London School of Economics) – Forensic humanitarianism and the politics of the grave
Lilie Chouliaraki (London School of Economics) – Post-humanitarianism. The contemporary politics of solidarity
Elísio Macamo (University of Basel) – The Paradox of Humanitarianism and the Perils of Conceptualization
Iain Wilkinson (University of Kent) – Humanitarianism as a Problem for Social Understanding
