Introduction : the inhumanity of humanitarianism -- Dogs and the politics of detecting explosives -- Heroes, rats, and the predicament of justice -- The gift of milk and the contingency of hunger -- Humanitarian politics on a multispecies planet.
Summary:
"Nonhuman Humanitarians explores the role of animals laboring alongside humans in humanitarian operations, generating new ethical possibilities of care and transforming the basic tenets of humanitarianism. Meiches reveals that care, compassion, and creativity are creaturely rather than human and that responses to suffering and injustice do not-and cannot-stop at the boundaries of the human"-- Provided by publisher.
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