Capitalism and the Origins of the Humanitarian Sensibility, Part 1

Haskell, Thomas L.

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“…This result has been interpreted in terms of market interactions making people more accustomed to the idea that strangers can be trusted (40) or more morally responsible through the increased awareness of others' economic conditions (46). Because globalization spans a broader range of connections than purely economic ones (i.e., social and cultural connections as well), our study points to the relevance of connections under these other domains in molding cooperative behaviors.…”

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Globalization and human cooperation

Buchan

Grimalda

Wilson

et al. 2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Globalization magnifies the problems that affect all people and that require large-scale human cooperation, for example, the overharvesting of natural resources and human-induced global warming. However, what does globalization imply for the cooperation needed to address such global social dilemmas? Two competing hypotheses are offered. One hypothesis is that globalization prompts reactionary movements that reinforce parochial distinctions among people. Large-scale cooperation then focuses on favoring one's own ethnic, racial, or language group. The alternative hypothesis suggests that globalization strengthens cosmopolitan attitudes by weakening the relevance of ethnicity, locality, or nationhood as sources of identification. In essence, globalization, the increasing interconnectedness of people worldwide, broadens the group boundaries within which individuals perceive they belong. We test these hypotheses by measuring globalization at both the country and individual levels and analyzing the relationship between globalization and individual cooperation with distal others in multilevel sequential cooperation experiments in which players can contribute to individual, local, and/or global accounts. Our samples were drawn from the general populations of the United States, Italy, Russia, Argentina, South Africa, and Iran. We find that as country and individual levels of globalization increase, so too does individual cooperation at the global level vis-à -vis the local level. In essence, ''globalized'' individuals draw broader group boundaries than others, eschewing parochial motivations in favor of cosmopolitan ones. Globalization may thus be fundamental in shaping contemporary large-scale cooperation and may be a positive force toward the provision of global public goods. economic experiments ͉ social dilemmas ͉ public goods provision ͉ cosmopolitanism ͉ parochialism

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 63%

Globalization and human cooperation

Buchan

Grimalda

Wilson

et al. 2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…-determining how such action can be made as efficient as possible. As Thomas L. Haskell (1985aHaskell ( , 1985b) discussed in his seminal study on humanitarianism and the emergence of capitalist market logics, moral sentiment only came to be effective when it had the capacity to be mobilised within a framework that not only reenforced the market itself but also maintained the emerging liberal order through ever greater rationalisation using a range of governing techniques. Here, a growth in moral sentiments emerges in two ways.…”

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Hotspots and the geographies of humanitarianism

Pallister‐Wilkins

2018

Environ Plan D

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This article focuses on the humanitarian geographies of the hotspots. It argues that hotspots are humanitarian in both idea and practice by raising two fundamental questions that form the basis for the article: what is humanitarianism, and who is it for? The article understands humanitarianism as a logic of government that is more expansive than the mainstream ideal that emerged in the 20th-century. Instead humanitarianism is understood as concerning logics developed to both effectively manage disaster and to secure (in both senses of the word) imminently mobile populations for the maintenance of liberal order alongside and through the securing of life. The article takes an expansive view of humanitarian government to consider genealogies of caring and population security logics in the establishment of modern, western and liberal states. The article unsettles some of the traditional geographical understandings of humanitarianism as care for distant strangers and considers the ways compassion is rationalised by the hotspot approach. This critical reading of humanitarianism and the hotspots offers empirical weight to what has been called 'humanitarianism as liberal diagnostic', through which humanitarianism is deployed to secure both life and a liberal political order across multiple scales. KeywordsHotspots, humanitarianism, mobility, care, control, disasterOn 25 November 2016, in Moria 'hotspot' camp on Lesbos, a woman and child were killed in a fire after a gas canister attached to a hot plate exploded inside their small nylon tent. They were using the hot plate to try and keep warm. As a result of the accident, two people died and many more were injured. . . Later that month, three young men died in Moria camp and a fourth was taken to hospital in a critical condition. Survivors and friends reported that the deceased had no pre-existing medical conditions. To keep warm, the men had been burning cardboard, plastic and scraps of wood in the tents they shared. (MSF, 2017: 12)

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“…But, and this is crucial, the ineluctable logic of commodity also engenders the emphatically de-commodified domain of family, love and friendship as a kind of paradoxical counter-movement. 50 'Love' in Hegel's sense does not predate commodity but is contemporaneous with it. Thus, the question of an ethical priority of what Derrida calls philia over impersonal contractual relationships is simply misconceived.…”

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The Rumor of Globalization: Globalism, Counterworks and the Location of Commodity

Mukhopadhyay

2005

Dialect Anthropol

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Abstract. This article seeks to document the vernacular perceptions of 'globalization' in rural Bengal (India) and, in that connection, seeks to rethink some long-held western notions concerning commodity, consumption, representation, the nature of sociality and the politics of democratic empowerment in the third-world. In the subaltern imaginary, images seem to play a crucial role conductive to empowerment. Also, far from resisting globalization and consumption, the rural poor seems to have assimilated these into their vernacular cosmology.

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Capitalism and the Origins of the Humanitarian Sensibility, Part 1

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