Ethical Imagination of Humanitarian Gifts

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  • 人道主義的な贈与のポリティクスと倫理的想像力
  • 人道主義的な贈与のポリティクスと倫理的想像力 : スリランカにおけるコロナ禍での外出禁止令発令時の支援を事例に
  • ジンドウ シュギテキ ナ ゾウヨ ノ ポリティクス ト リンリテキ ソウゾウリョク : スリランカ ニ オケル コロナ カ デ ノ ガイシュツ キンシレイ ハツレイジ ノ シエン オ ジレイ ニ
  • Case Study of Humanitarian Activities under COVID-19 Related Curfew in Sri Lanka Sae Nakamura
  • スリランカにおけるコロナ禍での外出禁止令発令時の支援を事例に

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<p>Humanitarianism rests on an explicitly asymmetrical image, where the benefactor has the sole agency to intervene in the suffering of others. The beneficiaries, on the contrary, are treated as passive recipients who may at times “resent” patriarchal intervention, but do not contribute to the creation of values. However, such rendering of altruistic gift with a clear division of giver/recipient inhibits us from grasping the dynamic and open-ended consequences of humanitarian gift. This article attempts to see humanitarianism as an on-going project, composed of actions with diverse ways of imagining and creating society, and seeks to posit a question that is yet to be explored. In particular, it asks: what new ways of imagining humanity and/or society can be delineated, if we take actions of the “recipient” seriously, as they influence the way the gift is rendered meaningful. In exploring the question, this article examines several cases of humanitarian gifts to the destitute rural elders during the curfew issued in Sri Lanka under covid-19 pandemic from March to May 2020.</p>

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