@article{1431563,
      note = {Includes index.},
      author = {Edgar, Brenda Lynn, and Gorin, Valérie, and  Martín-Moruno, Dolores,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1431563},
      title = {Making humanitarian crises : emotions and images in  history /},
      abstract = {Wide-ranging but tightly focused, this brilliant volume  shows us the innovative analytical possibilities afforded  by a sophisticated approach that critically blends the  history of emotions, the history of the senses and the  history of experience with new ways of handling visual and  material sources. - Rob Boddice, Tampere University,  Finland This open access collection of essays explores the  emotional agency of images in the construction of  humanitarian crises from the nineteenth century to the  present. Using the prism of the histories of emotions and  the senses, the chapters examine the pivotal role images  have in shaping cultural, social and political reactions to  the suffering of others and to the establishment of the  international networks of solidarity. Questioning certain  emotions assumed to underlie humanitarianism such as  sympathy, empathy and compassion, they demonstrate how the  experience of such emotions has shifted over time.  Understanding images as emotional objects, contributors  from a wide horizon of disciplines explore how their  production, circulation and reception has been crucial to  the perception of humanitarian crises in a long-term  historical perspective. Brenda Lynn Edgar is Senior  Teaching and Research Associate at the Institute for  Ethics, History and Humanities at theUniversity of Geneva,  Switzerland. Her research focuses on the material culture  history of photography. She has published on decorative  photographic practices, landscape photography used in  clinical environments, and women humanitarians in  anthropological cinema. Valerie Gorin is Senior Lecturer  and Researcher at the Geneva Center of Humanitarian  Studies, a joint center of the University of Geneva and the  Graduate Institute, Switzerland. A historian and media  scholar, she has published extensively on humanitarian  history, visual culture and digital communication since a  decade. Dolores Martin-Moruno is Swiss National Science  Foundation Professor at the Institute for Ethics, History  and the Humanities at the Faculty of Medicine of the  University of Geneva, Switzerland. She has published widely  on the history of emotions and the history of humanitarian  relief.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00824-5},
      recid = {1431563},
      pages = {1 online resource (xii, 186 pages) :},
}