Bulletin n. 2/2016
December 2016
INDICE
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Wilkinson Iain
    The problem of understanding modern humanitarianism and its sociological value
    in International Social Science Journal , Volume 65, Issue 215-216, March–June 2014 ,  2014 ,  65-78
    The full text is free: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/issj.12073/full The character, conditions and conduct of modern humanitarianism are widely studied and are frequently taken up as matters for critical debate. They form a substantial field of trans-disciplinary inquiry (Barnett and Weiss 2008). This is identified with efforts to chart new conditions and formations of global civil society (DeChaine 2005; Kaldor 2002). It involves inquiries into emergent forms of cosmopolitan political consciousness and action (Calhoun 2004, 2008; Delanty 2000). Moreover, many take an interest in these issues out of a concern to explain how humanitarian discourse along with the sentiment-fired terms on which it issues its moral demands operate as political ideologies and as forces of ‘governmentality’ (Larner and Walters 2004; Walters 2011). This article is designed as a sociological contribution to these inquiries...
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