Humanitarianism and Empire: New Research Agendas
Humanitarianism and Empire: New Research Agendas
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人道主义与帝国：新的研究议程
DOI：
10.1080/03086534.2012.730828
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发表时间：
2012
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Alan Lester
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作者：
R. Skinner;Alan Lester
本文对《帝国和英联邦历史杂志》特刊中提出的主题进行了介绍性概述。我们建议，虽然迈克尔·巴尼特的《人类帝国》等近期著作已经开始探索西方人道主义的历史，但学术研究人员可以做更多的工作来解决人道主义与帝国之间错综复杂的关系框架，并且人道主义的历史可以有效地被视为帝国关系的基本组成部分，是连接跨帝国、国际和跨国方法的一种方式。我们将本集中的论文置于更广泛的十九世纪和二十世纪人道主义史学范围内，并概述了人道主义“冲动”如何与围绕反奴隶制、殖民管理和保护土著人民的辩论相互交织。我们还概述了二十世纪国际“关注网络”参与并建立在帝国人道主义话语之上的方式。最后，我们简要考虑“跨国”方法在描绘帝国和人道主义历史时的好处。
This article provides an introductory overview of themes raised in this special edition of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. We suggest that, while recent work such as Michael Barnett's Empire of Humanity has begun to explore the history of western humanitarianism, academic researchers can do more to address the intricate framework of relations between humanitarianism and empire, and that the history of humanitarianism can usefully be viewed as a fundamental component of imperial relations, a way of bridging trans-imperial, international and transnational approaches. We set the papers in this collection within the wider historiography of nineteenth and twentieth century humanitarianism, and outline how the humanitarian ‘impulse’ intersected with debates around anti-slavery, colonial administration and the protection of indigenous peoples. We also outline the ways in which twentieth-century international ‘networks of concern’ engaged with, and built upon, the discourses of imperial humanitarianism. Finally, we briefly consider the benefits of a ‘transnational’ approach in sketching the history of empire and humanitarianism.