Humanitarianism and Empire
New Research Agendas
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5777740 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rob Skinner (0000-0003-4476-1381), Anthony Lester (0000-0002-2703-6383, University of Sussex) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 729-747 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Imperial & Commonwealth History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-6534 • E-ISSN: 1743-9329 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03086534.2012.730828 |
| OpenAlex | W2060250225 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 64 |
| References cited | 39 |
This article provides an introductory overview of themes raised in this special edition of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. We suggest that, while recent work such as Michael Barnett's Empire of Humanity has begun to explore the history of western humanitarianism, academic researchers can do more to address the intricate framework of relations between humanitarianism and empire, and that the history of humanitarianism can usefully be viewed as a fundamental component of imperial relations, a way of bridging trans-imperial, international and transnational approaches. We set the papers in this collection within the wider historiography of nineteenth and twentieth century humanitarianism, and outline how the humanitarian 'impulse' intersected with debates around anti-slavery, colonial administration and the protection of indigenous peoples. We also outline the ways in which twentieth-century international 'networks of concern' engaged with, and built upon, the discourses of imperial humanitarianism. Finally, we briefly consider the benefits of a 'transnational' approach in sketching the history of empire and humanitarianism
British Empire · Commonwealth · Historiography · Long nineteenth century · Australian History and Society · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Historical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
Refugees in Twentieth-Century Britain
Empire, Humanitarianism and Violence in the Colonies
Gandhi and the Humanitarians of Empire
Violence, Moral Imperialism and Colonial Borderlands, 1770s-1820s
Pandemic (Im)mobilities
"If You Want To Go Fast, Go Alone. If You Want To Go Far, Go Together."
Selma Dabbagh’s Out of It
« Civiliser, développer, aider »
The “Open Sore of America”
Imperial Refugee Management. Moving Greek Refugees Through the British Empire and into the Belgian Congo (1942–1945)
Christian Missions and Humanitarianism in The Middle East, 1850-1950
Many Mouths
Antibiotic Arrivals in Africa
Remembering the imperial context of emancipation commemoration in the former British slave-port cities of Bristol and Liverpool, 1933–1934
Humanitarian confinement. Ethnographies of a paradox
Building Africa’s Homegrown Humanitarian Systems
Civil War in El Salvador and the origins of rights-based humanitarianism
The limits of agency
The British Empire, International Government, and Human Rights
Anti‐slavery in Australia
Antislavery, elite men, and the “voice of the British nation
Flat affect? Revisiting emotion in the historiography of human rights
The Aborigines' Protection Society
Medical Brigades to El Salvador and Honduras
University Work Experiences in International Development
Marseille, city of refuge
Against Food Security
Despondence, dependence and dignity
The National Union of Students and transnational solidarity, 1958–1968
Practising the British way of famine
Humanitarianisms in context
No Happy Childhood Behind the Iron Curtain
Technologies of life-making in the British refugee camps of the Southern Levant
Word War I and the humanitarian impulse
Hunger and the humanitarian frontier
The geopolitics of militarism and humanitarianism
The Red Cross and the Establishment of Maternal and Infant Welfare in the 1930s Gold Coast
The Commonwealth and South Africa
Mandate of Compassion
Seeking Refuge in Hostility
The Great Bengal Famine in Britain
The Limitations of Social Governance in the British and American Concessions
Reluctant Humanitarians
An accumulated wrong
From the Teen to the Green Revolution
What is the history of care the history of
Group styles and humanitarian aid
Circulating Power
British Humanitarian Political Economy and Famine in India, 1838–1842
Education, race and empire
Humanitarianism as liberal diagnostic
Towards a History of Global Humanitarianism
Confinement humanitaire. Ethnographies d’un paradoxe
Humanitarianism and racial capitalism in the age of global shipping
From Empire to Humanity
The Great War, the child's body and the American Red Cross
The gendered and racialized politics of risk analysis. The case of Frontex
Spaces at the intersections of militarism and humanitarianism
Clumsy beginnings
The problem of understanding modern humanitarianism and its sociological value
Entangled Vulnerabilities
Ken Loach and the Save the Children Film
Indigenous Rights and Colonial Subjecthood
Mohammed Hanif'sRed Birds
Human Rights and Empire
Doctrines Of Development
The Scandal of Empire
Blood Ground
Political Economy of Slavery
The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823
Imperial Meridian
Humanitarian Intervention
Hunger
The Foundations of Anti-Apartheid
The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650–1900
Beyond sovereignty
No Enchanted Palace
Replenishing the Earth
Geographies of colonial philanthropy
AHR Conversation
A Civilised Savagery
Imperial Benevolence
The Atlantic Slave Trade and British Abolition 1760–1810
The Anti-Slavery and Aborigines' Protection Society and the South African Natives' Land Act of 1913
British perceptions of the East Pakistan Crisis 1971
Capitalism and the Origins of the Humanitarian Sensibility, Part 2
Women against Slavery
Empathy in History, Empathizing With Humanity
A Great Cause
The Moral Foundations of British Anti-Apartheid Activism, 1946-1960
The Sin of the Settler
The Last of the Gentlemen's Wars
British Settler Discourse and the Circuits of Empire
The Atlantic Slave Trade and British Abolition, 1760-1810
Hedge of Wild Almonds, South Africa, the 'Pro-Boers' & the Quaker Conscience 1890-1910
Missions and Empire
Colonial South Africa and the Origins of the Racial Order
Transnationalism
The Problem of Slavery in Western Culture
| Unique citing works | 64 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,92 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 59 |