Humanitarianism in the Modern World

Götz, Norbert; Brewis, Georgina; Werther, Steffen

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“…Att framställa Trumans tal som början på biståndsfrågan och biståndspolitiken är naturligtvis en grov förenkling. Viktiga trådar bakåt kan dras till Europas koloniala exploateringar i Afrika och Asien, den kristna missionen i samma områden och samtidigt till de riktade transnationella stödinsatser som förekom till offer för krig och svältkatastrofer alltifrån Napoleonkrigen och framåt (Götz, Brewis & Werther 2020;Unger 2018;jfr Hansen & Jonsson 2015). Men två aspekter av Trumans tal ringar verkligen in hur nya tankesätt tog plats efter andra världskriget i talet om "fattiga" och "rika" länder.…”

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Sveriges avrasifiering. Svenska uppfattningar om ras och rasism under efterkrigstiden

2023

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The deracialization of Sweden is a research anthology that examines issues of race, racism, anti-racism and whiteness in a Swedish post-war and contemporary context. The anthology consists of 13 studies written by authors from different fields that collectively explore how the concept of race was gradually dismantled and eventually became taboo in Sweden after 1945, and how a specifically Swedish form of anti-racism instead became normative. The anthology's contributions can be seen as case studies, focusing on key persons, public debates, figures of thought, institutions, migration and marketing, based on material from archives, the daily press, interviews, social media and more. Through this empirical and methodological breadth, the anthology as a whole cross-sections Sweden’s evolution from being a race science pioneer to becoming the world's most distinctly “colorblind” country. The book is edited by Tobias Hübinette and Peter Wikström, with contributions written by Martin Ericsson, Johan Samuelsson, Ludwig Schmitz, Emma Severinsson, Mattias Tydén, Mats Wickström, David Assadkhan, Karin Idevall Hagren, Catrin Lundström, Sayaka Osanami Törngren and Jeff Werner.

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Sveriges avrasifiering. Svenska uppfattningar om ras och rasism under efterkrigstiden

2023

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“…After both earthquakes, the Government of India set up Viceroy's Relief Funds, which took donations from private individuals, businesses, and governments in India and abroad. The funds followed the tradition of transnational humanitarian fundraising in the British Empire, which had begun with the 1840s Irish Potato Famine, developed throughout the later nineteenth century, and intensified after the First World War of 1914–18 (Baughan, 2012; Götz, Brewis, and Werther, 2020). Relief funds were not part of government budgets, but officials had key decision‐making powers and used them to help restore the socioeconomic, and therefore political, pre‐earthquake status quo ante.…”

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Recovering the status quo: tipping points and earthquake aftermaths in colonial India

Haines

2023

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Scholars of disaster politics debate how far natural hazards cause or catalyse political change. This paper builds on recent scholarship on tipping points and social contracts to argue that two case studies of historical earthquakes in 1930s British‐colonised India invite a focus on the dynamics of cooperation and conflict between state and non‐state actors. Officials of the colonial state and its nationalist rivals cooperated after one earthquake even though they otherwise bitterly opposed each other. Cooperation broke down after the second event, just one year later. Yet, in both cases, officials and nationalist leaders shared a broad vision for Indian society, which pushed both sides actively to seek to recover the social and economic status quo ante, preventing potential tipping points from crystallising. These case studies reveal how and why highly fraught social contracts can survive major disasters. The colonial state's transient and reactive approach to disaster governance continued to impact on post‐independence India.

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“…Respect for independence means the independence of humanitarian objectives from political, economic, military, or other objectives; and the sole purpose of humanitarian aid should be to alleviate and prevent the suffering Eastern European Journal of Transnational Relations Vol.6, No.1, 2022 of victims of humanitarian crises 11 (cf. Götz et al, 2020). In addition, in the cited document, the EU and donors have committed to adhere to the Principles and Good Practice of Good Humanitarian Donorship (GHD) developed by the Development Assistance Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and to cooperate with each other and with other actors in pursuit of best donor practices 12 .…”

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Legal basis and practical dimensions of humanitarian aid and civil protection provided by the European Union

Lesińska-Staszczuk¹

2022

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The article focuses on presenting the legal basis and practical dimensions of humanitarian aid and civil protection provided by the European Union in the face of world`s contemporary problems. The humanitarian aid and civil protection provided by the European Union is based on a solid legal foundation, as well as a set of concrete principles and common objectives. In the context of ever-increasing humanitarian needs and limited resources, the EU, together with its Member States and humanitarian partners, will seek a more coordinated and coherent approach to providing help, where humanitarian aid and development aid are interrelated, allowing current needs to be more efficiently addressed. EU-funded assistance is delivered in different forms, depending on the circumstances and unique character of each emergency. What remains the same, however, are the values that guide the Union and that are required from its aid partners, i.e.: humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence. The European Union continues to be a leader in the field of humanitarian aid around the world, being not only the main donor, but also setting standards for compliance with international humanitarian law and humanitarian principles.

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Humanitarianism in the Modern World

Cited by 54 publications

References 222 publications

Sveriges avrasifiering. Svenska uppfattningar om ras och rasism under efterkrigstiden

Sveriges avrasifiering. Svenska uppfattningar om ras och rasism under efterkrigstiden

Recovering the status quo: tipping points and earthquake aftermaths in colonial India

Legal basis and practical dimensions of humanitarian aid and civil protection provided by the European Union

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