Save the Children, the humanitarian project, and the politics of solidarity: reviving Dorothy Buxton's vision.
Save the Children, the humanitarian project, and the politics of solidarity: reviving Dorothy Buxton's vision.
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救助儿童会、人道主义项目和团结政治：重振多萝西·巴克斯顿的愿景。
作者：
E. Baughan;J. Fiori
本文回顾了救助儿童会成立的几年，这是西方历史最悠久、规模最大的人道主义机构之一，也是人道主义项目的支柱。在这样做的过程中，它思考了该组织如何以及为什么在早期阶段将其活动去政治化，将其叙事集中在无辜的、政治之前的孩子--清白的人类形象上。此外，它还试图恢复救助儿童会“被遗忘的创始人”多萝西·巴克斯顿的国际主义愿景。拯救儿童会转向非政治化表明西方人道主义行动的更广泛的非政治化。鉴于西方人道主义非政府组织(NGO)所处的激烈竞争空间，这些实体无法逃脱政治。本文认为，巴克斯顿在1918年第一次世界大战结束后通过人道主义行动建立国际团结网络的努力，为这些非政府组织在当今推行团结政治提供了有益的基础。
This paper reflects on the foundational years of Save the Children, one of the oldest and largest Western humanitarian agencies and a mainstay of the humanitarian project. In doing so, it considers how and why, at an early stage, the organisation depoliticised its activities, centring its narrative on the innocent, pre-political child-the image of unsullied humanity. In addition, it seeks to recover the internationalist vision of Save the Children's 'forgotten founder', Dorothy Buxton. Save the Children's turn to non-politics is indicative of the broader depoliticisation of Western humanitarian action. Given the intensely contested spaces in which Western humanitarian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) operate, these entities cannot escape politics. This paper argues that Buxton's efforts to build an international solidarity network through humanitarian action after the end of the First World War in 1918 provide an instructive basis on which these NGOs can pursue a politics of solidarity in the present day.