The Form and Content of Suffering
The Form and Content of Suffering
Humanitarian Knowledge, Mass Publics, and the Report, 1885–1927
This chapter discusses the elaboration of a new genre of knowledge production, the humanitarian report, as this genre developed in the eastern Mediterranean, and it links the form and content of the report to the practices of humanitarianism. Beginning with early Red Cross reporting, it continues through the construction of knowledge of the Armenian genocide. It also examines the beginnings of “indigenous humanitarianism” in the way Armenian intellectuals wrote about the destruction of their community.
Keywords: American Red Cross, Armenian genocide, Rockefeller Foundation, Arnold Toynbee, Zabel Yessyan, Hamidian Massacres, Fridtjof Nansen
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