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Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed
From international NGOs to UN agencies, from donors to observers of humanitarianism, opinion is unanimous: in a context of the alleged "clash of civilizations", our "humanitarian space" is shrinking. Put another way, the freedom of action and of speech of humanitarians is being eroded due to the radicalisation of conflicts and the reaffirmation of state sovereignty over aid actors and policies. The purpose of this book is to challenge this assumption through an analysis of the events that have marked MSF's history since 2003 (when MSF published its first general work on humanitarian action and its relationships with governments). It addresses the evolution of humanitarian goals, the resistan...
Life in Crisis
Parts of the chapters were published previously.
Human Rights in Crisis
This volume expands our understanding of the pursuit of human rights during the era of the War on Terror. It explores the broad and complicated ramifications of crisis by looking comparatively at societies in the present era and looking back at the historical and legal foundations of human rights.
The Care of the Witness
The Care of the Witness explores the historical shifts in the crises of witnessing to genocide, war, and disaster and their contribution to nongovernmental politics.
Médecins Sans Frontières
Voici la première « biographie » de Médecins sans frontières, la plus célèbre des ONG françaises, couronnée par le Prix Nobel de la paix en 1999. Trois ans durant, Anne Vallaeys s’est plongée dans les archives de cette association iconoclaste. Du Biafra à l’Afghanistan, du Cambodge au Rwanda, de l’Ethiopie à la Bosnie, l’auteur nous fait revivre les aventures de ces femmes et de ces hommes d’exception - infirmières, logisticiens et médecins volontaires -, à travers des centaines de récits, de reportages, de portraits et d’entretiens. Révoltés par l’inertie des institutions internationales dans les années soixante-dix, une poignée de médecins et de journalis...
Médecins Sans Frontières, Evolution of an International Movement: Associative History 1971-2011
When Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) was founded in 1971, it was founded with both international and associative dimensions. International because it wouldn’t have made sense for MSF France, on its own, to aid threatened populations around the world and associative because civil law in France, especially the 1901 law governing charitable bodies, was perfectly suited to the MSF organisation’s guiding precepts, which are democratic and selfless in nature. Yet, MSF’s development from a small, purely French organisation to an international associative movement was never carefully planned or particularly smooth. MSF’s development was the result of various compromises between the movement...
Humanitarian Invasion
Humanitarian Invasion provides a history of international development and humanitarianism in Cold War Afghanistan.
Les Filles
Le roman vécu d'une petite bande d'adolescentes de grande banlieue entre fous rires, angoisses, doutes, déprimes, rébellions, fureurs et mélancolies. L'« année du bac » du côté des jeunes filles de ce début de siècle.
Casualties of Care
"Casualties of Care is a well crafted, intelligent and carefully argued study of the social and policy effects of a seemingly benevolent set of 'humanitarian practices' used in the French immigration and asylum processes. One of the leading anthropologists of humanitarianism, Miriam Ticktin is well placed to write this definitive study, having undertaken nearly ten years of thorough ethnographic research in France. Her research findings draw from ethnographic interviews and participant observation as well as broader, more structural data on the movement of foreign labor within the French economy." --Richard Ashby Wilson, Gladstein Chair of Human Rights, University of Connecticut "Ticktin cuts to the heart of contemporary concerns, speaking provocatively and incisively about humanitarianism and security through the topic of immigration." --Peter Redfield, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Idealism beyond Borders
A major new study of the political and intellectual origins of modern humanitarianism from the 1950s to the 1980s.
