Combat Trauma w/ Nadia Abu El-Haj
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The New Humanitarianism
This is the decade of the so-called new humanitarianism that's both redefining the purposes of US military intervention in the language of human rights. And also, as you write, quote, marking a transformation of left politics toward a focus on relieving human suffering rather than the fight for equality or justice. So it's sort of a cultural milieu that's remaking the language,. Remaking the language of American imperialism and remaking thelanguage of the left which ostensibly exists to resist and oppose said imperialism.
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