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By Ilana Feldman,Miriam Ticktin,Allen Ticktin,Richard Ashby Wilson,Liisa H. Malkki,Rebecca Hardin

ISBN-10: 0822348101

ISBN-13: 9780822348108

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ISBN-13: 9780822348214

Scientists, activists, kingdom officers, NGOs, and others more and more declare to talk and act on behalf of “humanity.” The impressive array of situations within which humanity is invoked testifies to the category’s common buy. but what precisely does it suggest to control, struggle, and care within the identify of humanity? during this well timed assortment, prime anthropologists and cultural critics grapple with that question, studying configurations of humanity when it comes to biotechnologies, the usual setting, and humanitarianism and human rights. From the worldwide pharmaceutical undefined, to woodland conservation, to overseas legal tribunals, the domain names they learn spotlight the range of areas and scales at which humanity is articulated.

The editors argue that principles approximately humanity locate concrete expression within the governing paintings that operationalizes these principles to provide order, prosperity, and defense. As a domain of governance, humanity looks as either an item of care and a resource of hysteria. Assertions that humanity is being threatened, no matter if by way of environmental disaster or political upheaval, supply a justification for the elaboration of latest governing concepts. whilst, humanity itself is pointed out as a risk (to nature, to country, to international peace) which governance needs to comprise. those it seems that contradictory understandings of the relation of risk to the class of humanity coexist and stay in pressure, aiding to take care of the dynamic co-production of governance and humanity.

Contributors. Arun Agrawal, Joao Biehl , Didier Fassin, Allen Feldman, Ilana Feldman, Rebecca Hardin, S. Lochann Jain, Liisa Malkki, Adriana Petryna, Miriam Ticktin, Richard Ashby Wilson, Charles Zerner

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