Lasse Heerten

The Biafran War and Postcolonial Humanitarianism

Spectacles of Suffering

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A global history of 'Biafra', providing a new explanation for the ascendance of humanitarianism in a postcolonial world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: European Community
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 158mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 688g
• ISBN-13: 9781107111806
• ISBN-10: 1107111803
• Artikelnr.: 48433269

Autorenporträt

Lasse Heerten is currently head of the 'Imperial Gateway: Hamburg, the German Empire, and the Making of a Global Port' project, funded by the DFG (German Research Council) at the Freie Universität Berlin. He has previously served as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Human Rights at the University of California, Berkeley, and holds graduate degrees from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Oxford and the Freie Universität Berlin. His graduate studies were supported by a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Emergences of Biafra: 1. The end of empire and the coming of
postcolonial conflict; 2. The Biafran campaign for self-determination in a
postcolonial world of states; 3. The transnational internationalization of
the Biafran campaign; Part II. Biafra on a Global Stage: 4. Creating
'Biafra': the discovery of a civil war as humanitarian crisis; 5. 'Biafran
Babies': humanitarian visions of postcolonial disaster; 6. Auschwitz in
Africa? Biafra, Holocaust memory, and the language of rights; 7. Distant
suffering and close concerns: Biafra and the Third World in the global
Sixties; Part III. The Ends and Afterlives of Biafra: 8. Biafra, the
internationalism of states and the question of genocide; 9. The end of
Biafra, the end of the lobby; 10. The afterlives of Biafra.