Annette Jansen, Author at African Arguments

February 19, 2010

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The Ethic of Refusal: (or) the inability to cope with powerlessness in the face of human tragedy

I had to fight back some tears when listening to Jaoa telling me about that dreadful moment when the UN airlifted him and his colleagues from ...

Why the Human Rights Movement Struggles with Good News Stories

Just before the summer break, I attended a gathering in a Dutch pub in the Hague, the so-called Café Humanitaire organized by the Dutch NGO Platform ...

Towards an Anthropological Analysis of the Human Rights Worldview

In “˜Human Rights Reporting on Darfur: A Genre that Redefines Tragedy‘, posted on this blog on August 21-24, Jayne Blayton states that ‘human rights reports provide ...