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, 2015 ; Fast, 2017 ; Read et al. , 2016 ). Digitisation – the collection, conversion, storage and sharing of data and the use of digital technologies to collect and manage information about individuals from affected communities – increasingly shapes understandings of need and the response to emergencies. 2 This use of digital technologies produces ‘digital bodies’ – images, information, biometrics and other data stored in digital space – that represent
emphasis on bringing that which is hidden into the light, and its realist insistence on the universal legibility of visual facts’ ( McLagan, 2006 : 192). The same argument is obvious in the 1920s and linked to the indexicality of the mechanical image: It is a principle of English Common Law that a Coroner’s inquisition can only be held super visum corporis , and those of us who have had to fulfill the melancholy duty of taking part in such an inquisition will recall that it is only after ‘viewing the body’ that the members of the jury proceed to the performance of
by reflecting on the need for adaptability and responsiveness among humanitarian agencies, and the value of seeking knowledge from outside the traditional parameters of humanitarian studies. The main body of the article outlines the aims and implementation of the project and puts forward four principles on which a workable model of reflective practice might be developed. Our objective is not to establish a single transferable framework for historical reflection. Rather
nightmarish natural disasters, the suffering of slaves, or the horrors of war. Within weeks of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake that destroyed much of the city and killed thousands, woodcuts and engravings portraying the horrific event were everywhere in Europe. It was one of the ‘first great mass media events’ ( Sliwinski, 2011 : 88). Decades later, British abolitionists would disseminate the disturbing graphic of bodies packed into the hull of a slave ship, often viewed as a 3-dimensional model. Goya did
sector are still the minority of research into gender and humanitarianism (see, for example, Ticktin, 2011 ; Martin de Almagro, 2017 ; Houldey, 2019 ; Partis-Jennings, 2019 ). The articles in this special issue seek to contribute to this growing body of critical research and reflection. Though each of the contributions offers distinct insights, a number of important cross-cutting themes emerge from the issue as a whole. A key focus throughout this issue is on the need to move beyond thinking about gender as
Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore. In 2019, Trump and Kim met again in Hanoi, and with ROK President Moon Jae-in at the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), but these summits and meetings have not resulted in significant, concrete changes to the situation on the Korean peninsula. Moon met with Kim three times in 2018, resulting in increased inter-Korean cooperation including in the areas of sport, management of the DMZ, and transport. In 2019, Seoul channelled US$10 million in funding for humanitarian aid through UN bodies, including US$5.5 million to the World Food
( Bandolier , n.d. ). If the bacteria enter the bloodstream, bubonic plague can progress to septicaemic plague, which systematically infects the body and is virtually 100 per cent fatal if untreated ( Center for Health Security, 2013 ). Alternatively, if the bacteria enter the lungs, bubonic plague can progress to the highly infectious pneumonic plague. This condition is characterised by major respiratory shock, aggressive pneumonia and the coughing of blood
bodies, but also by the din of conflicting words, claims and narratives. But the forms that this disinformation has taken have constantly changed as technology has changed, from printing presses to wireless and TV and now to social media. The rapid growth in internet penetration and social media usage worldwide has made it easier and quicker to access and share vast quantities of news, information and entertainment – and this has proved fertile ground for all kinds of
others, rendering specific actors legitimate and others illegitimate, structuring humanitarian institution and practices. A small but relatively coherent body of literature has emerged that critically examines this phenomenon of quantitative humanitarianism. Within this nascent field, four books stand out. Peter Andreas and Kelly Greenhill (2010) provide an excellent edited volume Sex, Drugs and Body Counts that documents the politics and processes
so move beyond what has been called the post-humanitarian age where solidarity has become a form of irony ( Chouliaraki, 2011 ). The second review article, by Lawson, centred around Joël Glasman’s recent book Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs: Minimal Humanity , picks up on the debates about evidence-based action and the numbers which have come to underlie it. Exploring the body of literature that has emerged to critically engage with quantification in the humanitarian