Seeing Suffering

Journal of Humanitarian Affairs

Jeffrey Flynn¹ 

[1] Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Fordham University, New York;

关键词: atrocities;    biafra;    humanitarianism;    human rights;    photography;    suffering;    visual culture;   

DOI  :  10.7227/JHA.075

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This review essay focuses on two books, Heide Fehrenbach and Davide Rodogno’s Humanitarian Photography: A History (2015) and Lasse Heerten’s The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism: Spectacles of Suffering (2017). It situates the books in relation to broader debates about similarities and differences between humanitarianism and human rights practice, with a particular focus on the visual cultures of and ethical debates surrounding representations of suffering.