SAWYER SEMINAR HUMANITARIANISMS
COURSE SYLLABUS
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The Humanitarianisms: Migrations and Care through the Global South syllabus offers instructors a series of digital tools to experiment with new audio-visual learning strategies in their teaching. This syllabus is aimed at advanced undergraduate and graduate classes, providing a structured 10-week lesson plan that blends online webinars and supplemental reading materials with interactive class activities and assignments. In addition, the material can be used for both synchronous and asynchronous instruction across online, hybrid, and in-person class formats.
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We have structured the syllabus with varying teaching needs in mind: instructors may use the course syllabus to create an entire semester/quarter teaching program or embed select thematic portions (modules ranging from one to several weeks of instruction) into their classroom pedagogy. To facilitate a variety of teaching needs, our webinars offer full accessibility captioning and chapter indexing. Our indexing system for Youtube allows instructors to select specific webinar portions for in-class screenings and home assignments.
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Our syllabus provides a weekly course plan with a list of requirements and assignments. The accompanying study guide allows instructors to track student progress. Our teaching materials can be downloaded as PDFs at the bottom of the page. We also recommend that instructors visit the University of Washington's Center for Teaching and Learning for additional teaching resources. We hope that this virtual syllabus will allow instructors to discover valuable teaching tools that help enhance classroom learning on humanitarianism in the Global South.
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HUMANITARIANISMS: MIGRATIONS AND CARE THROUGH THE GLOBAL SOUTH
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CLASS TOPIC 1 | REFUGEES AND FIRST NATIONS SOVEREIGNTY
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In 2010, Australian Aboriginal elders and activists began to issue First Nation passports to refugees and asylum seekers detained and deterred under the terms of Australian border security. How might this gesture of welcome be read in light of contending sovereignties at stake? In this talk Anne McNevin reflects on the epistemic conditions that shape the reception of this gesture. Building out from this example, she draws on Indigenous articulations of sovereignty, responsibility and care as sources of theory about hospitality. Examining some of the limits to engaging those ideas in abstraction, she works towards a notion of epistemic hospitality as a way of approaching an exchange of knowledges about hospitality between putative hosts and guests, and across the putative terrain of the Global North and South.
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Index and Chapter Markings
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00:00 Sawyer Seminar Introduction
07:33 Introduction: Sovereignty, Welcome, and Epistemic Hospitality
08:03 Recognition of the Indigeneous Lenape, Wurundjeri and Coast Salish Peoples
10:08 Australia’s Pacific Solution, “humanitarian” border control, and offshore detention camps
12:21 First Nation Passports, refugees and epistemic hospitality
14:58 Beyond Eurocentric forms of humanitarianism
20:41 Decolonizing strategies and First Nations passports as a tactic
27:37 Indigenous sovereignty and hospitality
31:31 Manus Island, Indigeneous critiques of sovereignty, responsibility
39:44 Concluding remarks: Hospitality, migration, and care in settler-colonial contexts
41:07 Q&A
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00:00 Sawyer Seminar Introduction
07:33 Introduction: Sovereignty, Welcome, and Epistemic Hospitality
08:03 Recognition of the Indigeneous Lenape, Wurundjeri and Coast Salish Peoples
10:08 Australia’s Pacific Solution, “humanitarian” border control, and offshore detention camps
12:21 First Nation Passports, refugees and epistemic hospitality
14:58 Beyond Eurocentric forms of humanitarianism
20:41 Decolonizing strategies and First Nations passports as a tactic
27:37 Indigenous sovereignty and hospitality
31:31 Manus Island, Indigeneous critiques of sovereignty, responsibility
39:44 Concluding remarks: Hospitality, migration, and care in settler-colonial contexts
41:07 Q&A
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CLASS TOPIC 2 | PALESTINIAN RIGHTS AND THE POSTCOLONIAL
ORIGINS OF REFUGEE RIGHTS
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Ilana Feldman argues that Palestinians have long insisted both that humanitarianism is a right and that it entails specific obligations. Although the idea of humanitarian rights might seem an oxymoron, Palestinian efforts show that even as such demands may not have the force of law, they have, at least sometimes, been effective in changing practice. Pamela Ballinger shows that a rich body of scholarship has highlighted the particularistic and Eurocentric nature of the 1951 Convention. Less studied, however, are the ways in which the refugee definition also excluded many European displaced persons from recognition. Ballinger’s talk recuperates the complex efforts to categorize displacees in the Italian peninsula in the early postwar period, notably migrants produced by Italian decolonization. The Italian case offers an alternative history to the Convention, one that further provincializes (to employ Chakrabarty’s term) the regime of international law and assistance developed around the Convention.
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Index and Chapter Markings
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00:00 Introduction to series
04:57 Introduction to speakers
06:45 Ilana Feldman, “Humanitarian Rights and Palestinian Presence”
06:55 UNRWA, the West Bank, and the language of rights
08:40 Humanitarian rights, human rights, and national rights
09:12 Palestinian displacement, refugee camps, and refugee politics
10:10 Refugees as rights-bearing and world-forming subjects
11:52 Humanitarian rights and the 1951 Refugee Convention
15:00 Palestinian Refugees shaping UNRWA, acquiring right to protection, demanding right to political life
16:55 Israeli Occupation of Gaza Strip and the limits to politics in humanitarian space
19:56 Concluding remarks
20:55 Introduction: Pamela Ballinger, “Provincializing the 1951 Geneva Convention on Refugees”
22:45 Italian decolonization, displacement, and humanitarian crisis
25:17 Ambiguous political status and demands for assistance
26:37 Arab Spring, linkages with new refugee crisis and post-WW2 Italian national refugees
27:30 The coalescence of international refugee regimes
28:47 Post-war European commitment to colonialism and critiques of the Geneva Convention
31:30 National refugees’ exclusion from refugee status and erasure of decolonization histories after WW2
35:35 Colonial versus anti-colonial orders, human rights, and the European refugee regime
36:36 Concluding remarks
37:59 Discussian led by Gözde Burcu Ege
47:27 Q&A
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00:00 Introduction to series
04:57 Introduction to speakers
06:45 Ilana Feldman, “Humanitarian Rights and Palestinian Presence”
06:55 UNRWA, the West Bank, and the language of rights
08:40 Humanitarian rights, human rights, and national rights
09:12 Palestinian displacement, refugee camps, and refugee politics
10:10 Refugees as rights-bearing and world-forming subjects
11:52 Humanitarian rights and the 1951 Refugee Convention
15:00 Palestinian Refugees shaping UNRWA, acquiring right to protection, demanding right to political life
16:55 Israeli Occupation of Gaza Strip and the limits to politics in humanitarian space
19:56 Concluding remarks
20:55 Introduction: Pamela Ballinger, “Provincializing the 1951 Geneva Convention on Refugees”
22:45 Italian decolonization, displacement, and humanitarian crisis
25:17 Ambiguous political status and demands for assistance
26:37 Arab Spring, linkages with new refugee crisis and post-WW2 Italian national refugees
27:30 The coalescence of international refugee regimes
28:47 Post-war European commitment to colonialism and critiques of the Geneva Convention
31:30 National refugees’ exclusion from refugee status and erasure of decolonization histories after WW2
35:35 Colonial versus anti-colonial orders, human rights, and the European refugee regime
36:36 Concluding remarks
37:59 Discussian led by Gözde Burcu Ege
47:27 Q&A
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CLASS TOPIC 3 | Managing migrants and challenges to
international law
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Jessica Whyte considers the contributions of post-colonial nations and national liberation movements to international humanitarian law in the 1970s. Rejecting the view that their role was to confirm the incipient universalism of the humanitarianism of the Red Cross, Whyte traces their attempt to re-orient international humanitarian law to serve struggles for decolonization. Emma Meyer discusses mid-twentieth century, colonial-era efforts to regulate and control migrants of Indian descent crossing the Bay of Bengal became central to later systems of managing displacement in South Asia. Her talk focuses on Visakhapatnam, India, which has become a continuous site of resettlement for displaced people since WWII.
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Index and Chapter Markings
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00:00 Introduction to series
05:34 Introduction speakers
07:24 Jessica Whyte: “The Opposite of Humanity:” Anti-colonial Challenges to International Humanitarian Law
07:47 National liberation movements and challenges to international humanitarian law
09:06 Henry Dunant’s vision for the Red Cross and roots of humanitarian universalism
11:31 Anti-colonial movements in the Global South and demands for inclusion
12:07 Limits of “humanity” in Western humanitarianism, colonial violence and displacement
18:08 Eurocentrism and other contestations of humanity in national liberation struggles
22:23 Concluding Remarks: “Humanity” and new forms of warfare and imperialist violence
26:31 Emma Meyer: “Managing Migrants, Resettling Refugees”
26:50 Famine, War, and Indian Evacuees from Burma at the end of British colonialism in India
31:00 “International Refugee Regime” in inter-Asian context
33:14 Failed repatriation and evacuees’ demands for return after WWII
36:03 Evacuee petitions, discourses of poverty, and demand for mobility
42:02 Concluding Remarks: Port closures, bureaucratic appeals for survival after 1950
44:30 Discussant Question
52:44 Q&A
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00:00 Introduction to series
05:34 Introduction speakers
07:24 Jessica Whyte: “The Opposite of Humanity:” Anti-colonial Challenges to International Humanitarian Law
07:47 National liberation movements and challenges to international humanitarian law
09:06 Henry Dunant’s vision for the Red Cross and roots of humanitarian universalism
11:31 Anti-colonial movements in the Global South and demands for inclusion
12:07 Limits of “humanity” in Western humanitarianism, colonial violence and displacement
18:08 Eurocentrism and other contestations of humanity in national liberation struggles
22:23 Concluding Remarks: “Humanity” and new forms of warfare and imperialist violence
26:31 Emma Meyer: “Managing Migrants, Resettling Refugees”
26:50 Famine, War, and Indian Evacuees from Burma at the end of British colonialism in India
31:00 “International Refugee Regime” in inter-Asian context
33:14 Failed repatriation and evacuees’ demands for return after WWII
36:03 Evacuee petitions, discourses of poverty, and demand for mobility
42:02 Concluding Remarks: Port closures, bureaucratic appeals for survival after 1950
44:30 Discussant Question
52:44 Q&A
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CLASS TOPIC 4 | Southern-led humanitarian responses to
displacement
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Displacement is primarily a "Southern" and "South-South" phenomenon, to which Southern actors have historically responded in ways that resist, reject and provide alternatives to the hegemonic aid regime. However, Southern-led responses to displacement have typically been rendered invisible, and are largely un-acknowledged by Northern- and Northern-based academics, policymakers and practitioners. Though scholarly study of Southern actors’ responses to displacement has recently increased, Northern academics and policy observers too frequently delegitimize the activities of Islamic faith-based organizations and “nontraditional” donor states, which are not members of the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and Kuwait). In this presentation, Fiddian-Qasmiyeh focuses on responses to Syrian displacement since 2011 and develops a multiscalar analysis of the roles played by Southern states, local host communities, faith-based networks and refugees themselves. She argues that a focus on “refugee-refugee humanitarianism” can challenge dominant and exclusionary Northern humanitarianism paradigms of refugee studies.
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Index and Chapter Markings
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00:00 Introduction to the Series
03:12 Introduction to Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
05:23 Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh: “Shifting the Gaze: Southern-led Humanitarian Responses to Displacement”
06:10 Displacement as Southern phenomenon and refugee-refugee relationality
07:16 Refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey responding to displacement from Syria
07:31 Refugee-hosts challenging the dichotomy of active citizen vs. passive refugees
08:50 Overlapping displacement and refugee-refugee humanitarianism
15:28 The poetics of undisclosed care vs. hyper-visible practices of international aid provision
16:52 Limitations of local humanitarian practices and differentiated care
23:01 Structural inequalities that shape refugee-refugee humanitarianism
25:26 Tensions, hostility and hierarchies created by national and international policies
25:57 Concluding remarks: What needs to be seen when we shift the gaze to the Global South?
27:28 Discussion with Prof. Rawan Arar
42:00 Q&A
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00:00 Introduction to the Series
03:12 Introduction to Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh
05:23 Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh: “Shifting the Gaze: Southern-led Humanitarian Responses to Displacement”
06:10 Displacement as Southern phenomenon and refugee-refugee relationality
07:16 Refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey responding to displacement from Syria
07:31 Refugee-hosts challenging the dichotomy of active citizen vs. passive refugees
08:50 Overlapping displacement and refugee-refugee humanitarianism
15:28 The poetics of undisclosed care vs. hyper-visible practices of international aid provision
16:52 Limitations of local humanitarian practices and differentiated care
23:01 Structural inequalities that shape refugee-refugee humanitarianism
25:26 Tensions, hostility and hierarchies created by national and international policies
25:57 Concluding remarks: What needs to be seen when we shift the gaze to the Global South?
27:28 Discussion with Prof. Rawan Arar
42:00 Q&A
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CLASS TOPIC 5 | Comparative humanitarianism in egypt and
the himalayas
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Amira Mittermaier presents argues that caring for those in need is a central pillar of Islam. But caring for is not necessarily the same as caring about. Drawing on fieldwork in informal spaces of giving in post-2011 Egypt, this talk lays out an Islamic ethics of care—one not driven by compassion or pity but centered on divinely prescribed rights & responsibilities. Sienna R. Craig asks: How does “humanitarianism” surface in contexts that are primarily non-biomedical & that emerge from Tibetan Buddhist worldviews? What ideals, materials, & practices shape such encounters? Building on ethnographic research that focuses on Tibetan medical camps in India & Nepal, & incorporating recent events related to Tibetan medical responses to COVID-19 in North America & Asia, Craig considers how local logics of care intersect with a global politics of compassion.
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Index and Chapter Markings
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03:30 Introduction to speakers & discussant
04:55 Amira Mittermaier: “God, Humans, & an Islamic Ethics of Care”
05:55 Critiques of humanitarianism & the limits of the human
06:55 Non-humanitarian giving in Egypt, imagining forms of care beyond the human
07:55 Shayhk Salah, Sufi hospitality, & the ethics of immediacy
08:55 Resala, a non-humanitarian organization, & Islamic logics of care
09:55 Triadic giving & how God disrupts human-human dyadic logics
10:55 Concluding remarks: Rethinking the human in humanitarianism
11:55 Sienna R. Craig: “Himalayan Humanitarianisms: Crisis Response to Earthquakes to Pandemics”
12:55 Three sites of Humanitarian crisis: Yushu (2010), Nepal (2015), & Queens (2020)
13:55 Sowa Rigpa humanitarianism, local logics of care within global politics of compassion
14:55 The impact of coronavirus on Himalayan & Tibetan New Yorkers
15:55 Tibetan & Himalayan cultural orientations towards disasters
16:55 Tibetan medicines & forms of protection in response to natural disasters
17:55 Concluding remarks: Himalayan Humanitarianisms informed by Tibetan Buddhist ways of being & knowing
39:45 Discussion
58:58 Q&A
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03:30 Introduction to speakers & discussant
04:55 Amira Mittermaier: “God, Humans, & an Islamic Ethics of Care”
05:55 Critiques of humanitarianism & the limits of the human
06:55 Non-humanitarian giving in Egypt, imagining forms of care beyond the human
07:55 Shayhk Salah, Sufi hospitality, & the ethics of immediacy
08:55 Resala, a non-humanitarian organization, & Islamic logics of care
09:55 Triadic giving & how God disrupts human-human dyadic logics
10:55 Concluding remarks: Rethinking the human in humanitarianism
11:55 Sienna R. Craig: “Himalayan Humanitarianisms: Crisis Response to Earthquakes to Pandemics”
12:55 Three sites of Humanitarian crisis: Yushu (2010), Nepal (2015), & Queens (2020)
13:55 Sowa Rigpa humanitarianism, local logics of care within global politics of compassion
14:55 The impact of coronavirus on Himalayan & Tibetan New Yorkers
15:55 Tibetan & Himalayan cultural orientations towards disasters
16:55 Tibetan medicines & forms of protection in response to natural disasters
17:55 Concluding remarks: Himalayan Humanitarianisms informed by Tibetan Buddhist ways of being & knowing
39:45 Discussion
58:58 Q&A
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CLASS TOPIC 6 | Islamic ethics of refugee care in syria and
recipient agency in catholic charity in
uganda
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Basit Iqbal discusses how an Islamic pedagogue in Zaatari refugee camp distinguished between the registers of divine tribulation and affliction, between the duties and capacities of the subject. This talk draws on the anthropology of humanitarianism and literature on political theology in order to understand his ethical project. China Scherz highlights that it is often claimed that gifts of charity contain hidden dangers for those who receive them. Her talk challenges such a reading by exploring instances of beneficiary agency in the context of charitable exchange. These instances of asking, giving, and receiving complicate arguments about charity and humanitarianism which see charitable gifts as inevitably harmful.
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Index and Chapter Markings
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00:00 Introduction to series
03:15 Introduction to speakers & discussant
04:40 Basit Kareem Iqbal: “Ambivalence and Askesis in Zaatari Refugee Camp”
05:30 Humanitarianism as historical field of power and knowledge
07:01 Zaatari camp as ethical project of Islamic pedagogy
10:31 Going beyond bread: Giving religious knowledge as form of aid provisioning
11:18 The Syrian crisis as divine tribulation, raising questions of capacity and interference
14:27 Derrida and the passage from ethics to politics
15:40 Abu Bakr: a story of askesis
18:37 Concluding remarks: An alternative humanitarianism braiding the present and the afterlife together
20:27 China Scherz: “Seeking the Wounds of the Gift: Recipient Agency in Catholic Charity and Kiganda Patronage”
21:19 Reframing independence and self-reliance through patron-client relationships as primary ethical compass
21:54 Hope Child: A sustainable, community-based development project as alternative to traditional charity
26:17 Mercy House: A case of congruence rather than conflict
26:50 Franciscan Sisters: an ethical assemblage of charity, “omutima omuyambi” and patronage
30:45 Challenging dependency theory and gift-giving as forms of symbolic violence
32:47 Concluding remarks: Tearing down the wall and building a community
34:57 Discussion
55:17 Q&A
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00:00 Introduction to series
03:15 Introduction to speakers & discussant
04:40 Basit Kareem Iqbal: “Ambivalence and Askesis in Zaatari Refugee Camp”
05:30 Humanitarianism as historical field of power and knowledge
07:01 Zaatari camp as ethical project of Islamic pedagogy
10:31 Going beyond bread: Giving religious knowledge as form of aid provisioning
11:18 The Syrian crisis as divine tribulation, raising questions of capacity and interference
14:27 Derrida and the passage from ethics to politics
15:40 Abu Bakr: a story of askesis
18:37 Concluding remarks: An alternative humanitarianism braiding the present and the afterlife together
20:27 China Scherz: “Seeking the Wounds of the Gift: Recipient Agency in Catholic Charity and Kiganda Patronage”
21:19 Reframing independence and self-reliance through patron-client relationships as primary ethical compass
21:54 Hope Child: A sustainable, community-based development project as alternative to traditional charity
26:17 Mercy House: A case of congruence rather than conflict
26:50 Franciscan Sisters: an ethical assemblage of charity, “omutima omuyambi” and patronage
30:45 Challenging dependency theory and gift-giving as forms of symbolic violence
32:47 Concluding remarks: Tearing down the wall and building a community
34:57 Discussion
55:17 Q&A
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CLASS TOPIC 7 | Rescuing the dead and rethinking the human
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Sinan Antoon argues that material and discursive resources and energies are dedicated (insufficiently and unequally) to rescue the living from harm, and to tend to their wounds. But what of the dead? What can we, the living, learn from the rituals and traditions of tending to the dead and to their wounds? Beyond the corporeal, encounters with the ghosts and memories of the dead raise crucial political questions about the ways in which humans inhabit this world. Al-Ma’arri cautioned us a millennium ago to “tread gently, for the soil of this earth is made of these corpses.” This talk will summon al-Ma’arri’s ghost, among others, to address these questions.
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Index and Chapter Markings
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00:00 Introduction to series
03:13 Introduction to speaker and discussant
04:45 Sinan Antoon: Rescuing the Dead
06:32 US invasion of Iraq and uncounted bodies of Iraqi civilians
08:53 iraqbodycount.org; Working against the erasure
11:21 A proper burial, “a grim job in the service of Allah”
12:41 Spread of COVID-19 and the corona cemetery
14:42 The Corpse Washer, an artist and rituals of caring for the dead: the story of Jawad
18:31 The Book of the Collateral Damage, life and death extend to the non-human
19:57 “Even the dead are not safe from the enemy”
20:34 Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry and how a house becomes a casualty of war
21:37 Concluding remarks: Writing the history of the vanquished; al-Ma’arri and tending to dead bodies
23:30 Discussion with Selim Kuru
43:55 Q&A
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00:00 Introduction to series
03:13 Introduction to speaker and discussant
04:45 Sinan Antoon: Rescuing the Dead
06:32 US invasion of Iraq and uncounted bodies of Iraqi civilians
08:53 iraqbodycount.org; Working against the erasure
11:21 A proper burial, “a grim job in the service of Allah”
12:41 Spread of COVID-19 and the corona cemetery
14:42 The Corpse Washer, an artist and rituals of caring for the dead: the story of Jawad
18:31 The Book of the Collateral Damage, life and death extend to the non-human
19:57 “Even the dead are not safe from the enemy”
20:34 Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry and how a house becomes a casualty of war
21:37 Concluding remarks: Writing the history of the vanquished; al-Ma’arri and tending to dead bodies
23:30 Discussion with Selim Kuru
43:55 Q&A
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CLASS TOPIC 8 | Humanitarianism and mutual aid beyond
capitalism
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Dean Spade argues that humanitarianism, saviorism, and charity have been extensively critiqued as logics that undergird and legitimize war, colonialism, racialized-gendered control, and extraction. How do people organizing immediate survival support for each other in the face of crisis work together to resist these methods and build practices of solidarity and collective self-determination? Cristian Capotescu shows how in the late 1980s, for many citizens of the former socialist bloc practicing and living socialism involved helping the less fortunate, the sick, and the poor through acts of giving. Such volunteer work and private assistance often invoked moral claims of a better life based on an ethics of shared suffering, dependency, and radical equality. This talk traces how socialist giving opened the possibility for ordinary people to enact notions of shared humanity in alternative ways that frequently eluded capitalist, Western modernity.
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Index and Chapter Markings
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00:00 Introduction to series
03:13 Introduction to speakers & discussant
05:09 Dean Spade: “Mutual Aid: Radical Care in Crisis Conditions”
06:12 Mutual aid, Street Watch LA in collaboration w. the unhoused population
08:20 Background assumptions regarding social change & crisis response
09:39 What is mutual aid? How to mobilize & survive?
12:19 Mutual Aid versus charity, principles of mutual aid
19:11 Mutual Aid in Seattle, autonomous zones of care, displacement due to capitalism & climate crisis
21:15 Concluding remarks: Anti-police movement, tending to the unhoused & practicing new social relations
22:41 Cristian Capotescu, “Echoes of the ‘New Soviet Man’: Humanity & the Ethics of Giving in Late Socialism”
23:05 Revisiting utopian universalism, Eastern European socialism, practices of ethics in authoritarian contexts
24:40 Socialist Romania in 1980s, punitive austerity programs & socialist bloc's private humanitarians
28:18 The “moral code” of socialist giving, unsettling power asymmetries, anti-paternalistic approach to care
30:37 Mutual dependency, capitalism’s dualistic humanitarianism versus socialism’s monistic humanitarianism
33:53 Concluding remarks: Alternative practices of humanitarianism viewed from the Second World
37:18 Discussion
1:03:27 Q&A
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00:00 Introduction to series
03:13 Introduction to speakers & discussant
05:09 Dean Spade: “Mutual Aid: Radical Care in Crisis Conditions”
06:12 Mutual aid, Street Watch LA in collaboration w. the unhoused population
08:20 Background assumptions regarding social change & crisis response
09:39 What is mutual aid? How to mobilize & survive?
12:19 Mutual Aid versus charity, principles of mutual aid
19:11 Mutual Aid in Seattle, autonomous zones of care, displacement due to capitalism & climate crisis
21:15 Concluding remarks: Anti-police movement, tending to the unhoused & practicing new social relations
22:41 Cristian Capotescu, “Echoes of the ‘New Soviet Man’: Humanity & the Ethics of Giving in Late Socialism”
23:05 Revisiting utopian universalism, Eastern European socialism, practices of ethics in authoritarian contexts
24:40 Socialist Romania in 1980s, punitive austerity programs & socialist bloc's private humanitarians
28:18 The “moral code” of socialist giving, unsettling power asymmetries, anti-paternalistic approach to care
30:37 Mutual dependency, capitalism’s dualistic humanitarianism versus socialism’s monistic humanitarianism
33:53 Concluding remarks: Alternative practices of humanitarianism viewed from the Second World
37:18 Discussion
1:03:27 Q&A
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CLASS TOPIC 9 | Rethinking humanitarianism and seeing
beyond the human
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Nermeen Mouftah explores how in Pakistan, NGOs compete annually to collect and auction the animal skins of Eid al-Azha (Feast of the Sacrifice). This talk examines how the welfare branch of the Islamist party, Jama’at-i-Islami, invests in a risky fundraising ritual that animates the value of sacrifice in their humanitarian work. Juno Salazar Parreñas speaks on species extinction and the fortressing of nation-state borders that deny the nature of people, who like many other earthly beings, move around the world. What empathies can emerge in this contemporary age that is dually characterized by inhumanity towards humans and humanitarianism towards animals?
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Index and Chapter Markings
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00:00 Introduction to series
03:14 Introduction to speakers & discussant
05:02 Nermeen Mouftah: Sacrificial Skins: The Value of Pakistan’s Eid Al-Azha Animal Hide Collection
05:48 Al-Kidhmat Foundation: Rethinking humanitarianism in Muslim contexts
06:51 Animal sacrifice as a humanitarian rite, qurbani in Pakistan
07:56 Collection of animal hides as a fundraising practice
09:55 Decline in market value of hides and animal hide collection as a sacrificial act
11:35 Animal sacrifice as organizational ritual, mechanization, and voluntary work
14:48 Reclaiming a cosmological hierarchy, distinguishing the human, animal care as the prerequisite for sacrifice
20:08 Concluding remarks: Sacrifice for God, Service to Humanity
21:32 Juno Salazar Parreñas: A Common Humanity in a Post-Human Era
23:14 Two crises disturbing the common humanity: extinction of species and fortressing of nation-state borders 24:39 History of racism in science, practices of dehumanization, and animalization of racialized subjects
25:54 Post-humanism, animals individuality, and humans kept in cages
27:30 War on terror, microbiology and the three-domain system, and critiques of European liberal humanism
30:45 Questioning the project of common humanity and rethinking the human
34:54 Concluding remarks: An alternative framework of common humanity
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00:00 Introduction to series
03:14 Introduction to speakers & discussant
05:02 Nermeen Mouftah: Sacrificial Skins: The Value of Pakistan’s Eid Al-Azha Animal Hide Collection
05:48 Al-Kidhmat Foundation: Rethinking humanitarianism in Muslim contexts
06:51 Animal sacrifice as a humanitarian rite, qurbani in Pakistan
07:56 Collection of animal hides as a fundraising practice
09:55 Decline in market value of hides and animal hide collection as a sacrificial act
11:35 Animal sacrifice as organizational ritual, mechanization, and voluntary work
14:48 Reclaiming a cosmological hierarchy, distinguishing the human, animal care as the prerequisite for sacrifice
20:08 Concluding remarks: Sacrifice for God, Service to Humanity
21:32 Juno Salazar Parreñas: A Common Humanity in a Post-Human Era
23:14 Two crises disturbing the common humanity: extinction of species and fortressing of nation-state borders 24:39 History of racism in science, practices of dehumanization, and animalization of racialized subjects
25:54 Post-humanism, animals individuality, and humans kept in cages
27:30 War on terror, microbiology and the three-domain system, and critiques of European liberal humanism
30:45 Questioning the project of common humanity and rethinking the human
34:54 Concluding remarks: An alternative framework of common humanity
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