Idealism beyond borders : the French Revolutionary Left and the rise of humanitarianism 1954-1988
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Idealism beyond borders : the French Revolutionary Left and the rise of humanitarianism 1954-1988
(Human rights in history)
Cambridge University Press, 2015
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
This is a major new account of how modern humanitarian action was shaped by transformations in the French intellectual and political landscape from the 1950s to the 1980s. Eleanor Davey reveals how radical left third-worldism was displaced by the 'sans-frontieriste' movement as the dominant way of approaching suffering in what was then called the third world. Third-worldism regarded these regions as the motor for international revolution, but revolutionary zeal disintegrated as a number of its regimes took on violent and dictatorial forms. Instead, the radical humanitarianism of the 'sans-frontieriste' movement pioneered by Medecins Sans Frontieres emerged as an alternative model for international aid. Covering a period of major international upheavals and domestic change in France, Davey demonstrates the importance of memories of the Second World War in political activism and humanitarian action, and underlines the powerful legacies of Cold War politics for international affairs since the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part I. Idealism beyond Borders: 1. A revolution in aid: the creation of sans-frontierisme
- 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-frontieriste spectacle
- 7. Controversy in a humanitarian age: attacks on tiers-mondisme in the 1980s
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Index.
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