posted by Bangirana Albert Billy
“The concept which is supposed to transcend ideology obscures the role of the west in creating disasters in the first place.” – Jeremy Seabrook
Jeremy Seabrook, in the article “The doctrine of ‘humanitarianism’ is not as benign as you think,”–like Cilas Kemedjio in an earlier 2009 piece for the CIHA Blog–expounds upon the concept of humanitarianism in its philosophical abstraction, history and practice. He critiques the ideological configuration of humanitarian-ism in contemporary praxis–offering valuable analytical incites in understanding the ‘ism’ within the controversial humanitarian discourse.