Politics Of Compassion Research Articles

Waiting to Be Human: The Cruel Optimism of Christian Petzold’s Transit

Christian Petzold’s Transit confronts viewers with a series of traditional binaries: individual and social, past and present, image and word, local and global, waiting and acting, and subjection and sovereignty. Its audiovisual and narrational strategies for negotiating these polar categories and relating them to the characters’ narratives introduce questions of what it means to be human within the hierarchies of deservingness that constitute not only international politics but also our intimate, personal interactions. Exploring Georg’s varied responses to the suffering of others, the film implicitly intervenes in debates about the politics of compassion and juggles questions such as those posed by Judith Butler as to how we might create a world that is inhabitable for everyone. The film asks what it means to exist in relation to others at both micro (social, interpersonal, ethical) and macro (political, governmental, legal) levels and what it means to lose those others. Ultimately, I argue, Transit is an elegy that functions as a kind of literal Trauerarbeit, an affective labour in which viewers remember the past but are afforded no reassurance that the present is better.

UPAYA SULTAN ABDUL HAMID II DALAM MEMINIMALISIR SEKULARISME TURKI UTSMANI

Abstract This article examines the steps taken by Sultan Abdul Hamid II in narrowing the political influence of secularism within the Ottoman Empire. The secularism that occurred in the Ottoman Turks strengthened after the Tanzimat in 1839, this condition caused the decline of the spirit of Islam and the inclusion of westernization influences in Ottoman Turkey both from a social and political perspective. Seeing the growing secular political turmoil, Sultan Abdul Hamid initiated several ideas such as; Pan-Islamism, strengthening the supremacy of intelligence, and politics of compassion, these ideas were de-secularization movements in their era. The research method used in this study is a historical research method, with a social and political approach. The steps of the historical method are; heuristics, criticism, interpretation, and historiography with these steps make this article credible and comprehensive. There are findings in this article that the steps taken by Sultan Abdul Hamid succeeded in suppressing the rate of secularism in Ottoman Turkey so that the Ottoman Turks were able to make pro-Islamic policies and were not influenced by the West.

Border politics: Migrant melodramas from the Great Recession to the present

Centring on the politics of compassion in migrant films produced from the Great Recession of 2008 to the present, this article examines the affective strategies deployed by two Spanish melodramas featuring African protagonists who endure physical and psychological trauma in search of a better life. Engaging recent scholarship on global melodrama, I argue that Diamantes negros/Black Diamonds (Alcantud 2013) and Adú (Calvo 2020) look beyond European borders to identify the sociopolitical coordinates of suffering on a worldwide scale.

The Politics of Compassion: Immigration and Asylum Policy by Ala Sirriyeh (2018)

Ala Sirriyeh (2018)<br />The Politics of Compassion: Immigration and Asylum Policy (Global Migration and Social Change series)<br />Bristol University Press<br />ISBN 978-1-529-20042-3<br />£75 (hardcover)<br />224 pp

God will reward you: Muslim practices of caring for precarious migrants in the context of secular suspicion

In recent years, Muslims have become more visibly invested in humanitarian work in France. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Marseille, this article examines local initiatives to care for precarious others whose lives are neither materially supported nor socially recognized within the current French political regime. Engaging with critical French scholarship on humanitarianism as care for others associated with emergency, suffering and the politics of compassion, I show how food-distribution (maraudes) by Muslim-run humanitarian associations also draw from Islamic ethics of care. While social dynamics related to gender, class, race and generation structure the maraudes, the foregrounding of shared precarity, and of religious duty and piety over pity, challenges the ‘hierarchies of deservingness’ established by humanitarian border regimes. In caring for precarious others, Muslims must navigate both the secular suspicion directed towards Islam and the securitization of migration. Carrying out the religious duty of helping those in need, they are ‘laying claim to public space’ for both Muslims and precarious migrants.

Edward U. Murphy (2018), The Politics of Compassion: The Challenge to Care for the Stranger, London: Rowman and Littlefield, £30.00, pp. 238, pbk.

Edward U. Murphy (2018), The Politics of Compassion: The Challenge to Care for the Stranger, London: Rowman and Littlefield, £30.00, pp. 238, pbk.

The politics of compassion: the Refugee Children’s Movement and caring for the Kinder

The politics of compassion: the Refugee Children’s Movement and caring for the Kinder

Humanitarian affect: Islam, aid and emotional impulse in northern Pakistan

ABSTRACTEmploying a perspective on humanitarianism as a ‘morphing’ project of ‘doing good’, this article explores the historical process of drawing humanitarian institutions to northern Pakistan via Muslim networks. Focusing on local men who have practised a variety of forms of humanitarian engagement in past and present, it looks at the broader moral assemblages of which these humanitarians are part. The article thereby shows how these moral assemblages are marked by affect, local distinctions and translocal aspirations. Amidst co-existing humanitarian genealogies, I argue that it is the emotional impulse not only to care for others, but also to get the unlikely done and to build a material legacy that provides a legitimacy for humanitarian work that goes beyond the politics of compassion.

Book Review: The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China

Book Review: The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China

The Politics of Compassion: Immigration and Asylum Policy (Global Migration and Social Change). By Ala Sirriyeh

<i>The Politics of Compassion: Immigration and Asylum Policy</i> (<i>Global Migration and Social Change</i>). By Ala Sirriyeh

Book review: The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China Bin Xu

Book review: The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China Bin Xu

Book Review: The Politics of Compassion: Immigration and Asylum Policy

Book Review: The Politics of Compassion: Immigration and Asylum Policy

Acting Otherwise: Literary Justice and the Politics of Compassion: A review of Elisabeth Weber, Kill Boxes: the Legacy of Torture, Drone Warfare, and Indefinite Detention

Acting Otherwise: Literary Justice and the Politics of Compassion: A review of Elisabeth Weber, Kill Boxes: the Legacy of Torture, Drone Warfare, and Indefinite Detention

Review of &lt;em&gt;The Politics of Compassion: The Challenge to Care for the Stranger&lt;/em&gt; by Edward U. Murphy

Review of &lt;em&gt;The Politics of Compassion: The Challenge to Care for the Stranger&lt;/em&gt; by Edward U. Murphy

The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China

The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China

The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China. By Bin Xu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2017. xiii, 256 pp. ISBN: 9781503602106 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China. By Bin Xu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2017. xiii, 256 pp. ISBN: 9781503602106 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book).

Bin Xu, The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China

Bin Xu, The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China

The Ambiguity of Constitutional Silence on State Secession in Nigeria: Looking Beyond Politics of Compassion and Prejudice

Before putting my thoughts together in this article, I had to distance myself from nationalistic prejudice as Nigerian from the Southwestern part of the country, but proffer legal reasoning to tackle the conundrum surrounding the secession of Biafra from Nigeria. In my pursuit of clarity, I believe Biafra can secede from Nigeria, but this is contingent on legal and moral hurdles to overcome in the context of a nascent Nigerian political system. This article is a bifurcated academic reasonings, illustrating a moral argument to justify Nigeria’s political unity rather than its disintegration, and a legal argument drawing its content, context and culture from the current Nigerian constitution, and tenets of international law to state that secession is a question not answered by Nigerian domestic laws; moreover, international law gives little definitive position on it, save—the principle of self-determination. The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), is currently spearheading resurgence of (Biafra), a defunct secessionist state that existed from 30 May 1967-January 1970 in eastern Nigeria. However, the current constitution of Nigeria is silent on state secession, just as international law does not recognize secession as an identified right. It does not specifically grant component parts of sovereign states the legal right to secede unilaterally from their parent state. Secession succeeds or fails not on what international law says, it depends on the success of an entity making the secession move. The fulcrum of this article is a synthesis of principles of constitutional interpretation to understand why the 1999 constitution of Nigeria is silent on state secession, and how the ambiguity arising from this silence can be resolved in the context of the current Biafra secession move. This article peruses some tools of constitutional interpretation by giving utmost deference to the cautionary dictum of Justice Marshal in McCulloch v. Maryland, who posits it is a constitution we are expounding, therefore great caution must be sought while interpreting its content. This article argues that non-express prohibition of state secession in the constitution does not make it permissive for entities to breakaway unilaterally. It appears framers of the constitution intend political continuity and survival of the nation as a single entity rather than its disintegration. This article concludes that in the affirmative, Nigeria has a state responsibility to provide self-determination to her people, however, self-determination is not necessarily secession; especially where internal self-determination has been availed social groups and enclaves in Nigeria. It postulates alternatives to handling political grievances from the standpoint of constitutionalism. The decision of the Canadian Supreme Court in RE: SECESSION OF QUEBEC is used in this article to amplify the core factors justifying a move for secession on the argument that an entity's right to self-determination is impeded. Some of these factors discussed in this scholarship are-political oppression, threat of genocide, and human rights violations.

The Ambiguity of Constitutional Silence on State Secession in Nigeria: Looking Beyond Politics of Compassion and Prejudice.

Before putting my thoughts together in this article, I had to distance myself from nationalistic prejudice as Nigerian from the Southwestern part of the country, but proffer legal reasoning to tackle the conundrum surrounding the secession of Biafra from Nigeria. In my pursuit of clarity, I believe Biafra can secede from Nigeria, but this is contingent on legal and moral hurdles to overcome in the context of a nascent Nigerian political system. This article is a bifurcated academic reasonings, illustrating a moral argument to justify Nigeria’s political unity rather than its disintegration, and a legal argument drawing its content, context and culture from the current Nigerian constitution, and tenets of international law to state that secession is a question not answered by Nigerian domestic laws; moreover, international law gives little definitive position on it, save—the principle of self-determination. The Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), is currently spearheading resurgence of (Biafra), a defunct secessionist state that existed from 30 May 1967-January 1970 in eastern Nigeria. However, the current constitution of Nigeria is silent on state secession, just as international law does not recognize secession as an identified right. It does not specifically grant component parts of sovereign states the legal right to secede unilaterally from their parent state. Secession succeeds or fails not on what international law says, it depends on the success of an entity making the secession move. The fulcrum of this article is a synthesis of principles of constitutional interpretation to understand why the 1999 constitution of Nigeria is silent on state secession, and how the ambiguity arising from this silence can be resolved in the context of the current Biafra secession move. This article peruses some tools of constitutional interpretation by giving utmost deference to the cautionary dictum of Justice Marshal in McCulloch v. Maryland, who posits it is a constitution we are expounding, therefore great caution must be sought while interpreting its content. This article argues that non-express prohibition of state secession in the constitution does not make it permissive for entities to breakaway unilaterally. It appears framers of the constitution intend political continuity and survival of the nation as a single entity rather than its disintegration. This article concludes that in the affirmative, Nigeria has a state responsibility to provide self-determination to her people, however, self-determination is not necessarily secession; especially where internal self-determination has been availed social groups and enclaves in Nigeria. It postulates alternatives to handling political grievances from the standpoint of constitutionalism. The decision of the Canadian Supreme Court in RE: SECESSION OF QUEBEC is used in this article to amplify the core factors justifying a move for secession on the argument that an entity's right to self-determination is impeded. Some of these factors discussed in this scholarship are-political oppression, threat of genocide, and human rights violations.

Field hospital: HEAL Africa and the politics of compassion in Eastern Congo

The essay explores the image of the church as field hospital so as to make explicit the interconnections between evangelism, ecclesiology, and politics. Founded by Dr. Jo Lusi and his wife Lyn, HEAL Africa’s holistic ministry in and around Goma in Eastern Congo provides an illuminating example of mission’s critical and constructive engagement with societies, change, and conflict. Accordingly, by attending to the story of HEAL Africa, the essay shows how the church’s engagement with a wounded world takes the form of compassion in its many dimensions. Thus, what HEAL Africa’s compassionate engagement in Eastern Congo helps to illumine are the historical, practical, and spiritual dimensions of the church as a field hospital.