Call for papers
> >
> > Historical Geographies of Humanitarianism
> >
> > 11th International Conference of Historical Geographers,
> > Quebec City, Canada, Aug 12-18th 2001
> >
> > Convenor: Rick Mitcham ([log in to unmask])
> >
> >
> > Debates around the globalisation of human rights and the burgeoning
> > literature on our responsibilities to distant strangers have prompted
work
> > on the historical geographies of humanitarianism. Geographers are
> > currently exploring different aspects of humanitarianism and
> > anti-humanitarianism in a range of historical and geographical contexts,
> > tracing the flow of humanitarian ideas and actions between colony and
> > metropole, and into the post-colonial world. In bringing together
scholars
> > interested in humanitarianism and its historical geographies, the
session
> > aims to open up a debate between them, and to consider what other
questions demand attention.
> >
> > Possible themes:
> >
> > * imaginative geographies of moral responsibility
> > * the political cultures of humanitarianism
> > * the geographies of anti-humanitarianism
* the exclusions built into humanitarianism
* the moral dilemmas of a responsibility to others
* the problems of reconciling human rights with respect for
difference.
> >
> > Titles and abstracts (200 words max) should be sent to the convenor by
> > 24th June 2000.
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