Humanitarian Relations: Emotion and the Limit of Critique
Abstract
This paper provides a critical analysis of the Radi-Aid “Africa for Norway” project in order to identify a “humanitarian relation” that informs development agency marketing, as well as global education initiatives. Taking Vanessa Andreotti’s Heads Up critical literacy tool as a starting point, the paper addresses three related questions that we must be attentive to in developing critical practices of engaging with humanitarian discourse: 1) How do our social positions and attendant perspectives shape our analysis? 2) How do approaches that focus on critique fail to address the appeal of development marketing as a practice of benevolence? and 3) How can structural violence be effectively represented? While the Radi-Aid project seeks to challenge the negative stereotypes of Africa that circulate in Europe and North America, I argue that it ultimately reaffirms a humanitarian relation. The problem, I conclude, is how to unpack and undo this relation, not just in intellectual terms – the delineation of the relationships of inequality that produce suffering – but in the terms of how that relation is felt as a sense of purpose and status for the Western-situated humanitarian.
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