Idealism Beyond Borders - The French Revolutionary Left Rise of Humanitarianism, 1954 1988

A major new study of the political and intellectual origins of modern humanitarianism from the 1950s to the 1980s.

List of contents

Introduction; Part I. Idealism beyond Borders: 1. A revolution in aid: the creation of sans-frontiérisme; 2. Aiding the revolution: influences on tiers-mondisme; Part II. Violence and Morality: 3. The struggle for international justice: tiers-mondiste engagement on the outskirts of May; 4. Complicity, conscience and autocritique: reconfiguring attitudes to political violence; 5. A rhetoric of responsibility: Vichy, the Holocaust, and suffering in the third world; Part III. Ethics and Polemics: 6. Idealism beyond borders: the turn to sans-frontiériste spectacle; 7. Controversy in a humanitarian age: attacks on tiers-mondisme in the 1980s; Conclusion; Notes; Index.

About the author

Eleanor Davey's research is currently funded by a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2014–17) and explores the relationship between humanitarianism and national liberation. Prior to joining the University of Manchester, she worked in the Humanitarian Policy Group at the Overseas Development Institute (HPG/ODI), one of the leading research centres working on humanitarian action, where she headed a project on the uses of history in humanitarian practice and policy. She is currently an adviser to research projects underway at ODI and Save the Children UK.

Summary

An important examination of how modern humanitarian action rose through the transformation of the French intellectual and political landscape from the 1950s to the 1980s. Eleanor Davey explores how the 'sans-frontiériste' movement displaced radical left third-worldism as the dominant way of approaching suffering in what was then called the third world.

Product details

• Authors: Eleanor Davey, Eleanor (University of Manchester) Davey, Davey Eleanor
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.12.2015
• EAN: 9781107069589
• ISBN: 978-1-107-06958-9
• No. of pages: 346
• Series: Human Rights in History; Human Rights in History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; France, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Human rights, civil rights, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)