Forces of Compassion

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The surrealism of imagining contemporary humanitarian techniques applied to historical events indicates more than dramatic technological transformation, it also suggests limits to contemporary assumptions about common human feeling and associated action. What is it about the present, we might wonder, that casts the care of strangers in such a leading role? The contributors to this volume critique the "aid industry” in an attempt to answer these types of questions.